Voting Days
Important Voting Days! June 7, 2016 - State Primary Election and Presidential Primary Election Day November 8, 2016 - Federal General Election Day For other important dates: elections.mytimetovote.com/dates/montana.html
Voting Information
Last year, the legislature updated laws so that Montana is better able to serve the disability community. In the past, we have had the ability for individuals to vote absentee, have a designated agent help assist them with the voting process, and to independently cast a secret ballot by using the AutoMARK Voting machine. The [...]
County Elections Offices
Flathead Debbie Pierson 800 S Main Kalispell MT 59901 (406) 758-5535 (406) 758-5877 electionweb@flathead.mt.gov Lake Kathie Newgard 106 4th Ave E Polson MT 59860 (406) 883-7268 (406) 883-7230 knewgard@lakemt.gov Lincoln Leigh Riggleman 512 California Libby MT 59923 (406) 283-2301 (406) 293-8577 leigh@libby.org Mineral Staci Hayes Box 550 Superior MT 59872 (406) 822-3520 (406) 822-3579 shayes@co.mineral.mt.us [...]
Montana has released new numbers for income limits for people using various programs
Medicare Payment Assistance (Income limits) QMB - Individual - $0 to $990.00/month & Couple - $0 to $1335.00/month SLMB - Individual - $990.01 to $1188.00/month & Couple - $1335.01 to $1602.00/month QI - Individual - $1188.01 to $1337.00/month & Couple - $1602.01 to $1803.00/month Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities (Income limits) MWD - Individual - [...]
ABLE Update
Summit Independent Living Center has created a webpage to track updates to ABLE programs in Montana and throughout the United States. A recent rules change allows eligible people to create ABLE savings accounts anywhere in the country once states start activating those programs. To learn more about how ABLE accounts work, visit: www.summitilc.org/able.html
Impact Feature
Congratulations to Summit’s Andrea Dahl and Connie Lewis of People First in Missoula for being featured in Impact, a publication by the Institute on Community Integration (UCEDD) & Research and Training Center on Community Living. Connie is featured throughout the magazine, and Andrea Dahl’s article “Learning Together About Health Promotion: A Community Partnership in Montana” [...]
Marriage Equality
When we think of marriage equality, we often think about the fight LGBT couples face, but another minority group must deal with the stark reality that they are often better off living alone or in long-term committed relationships, without marriage. These couples are denied more than 1,100 rights afforded to married couples. They have been [...]
ADA 25 Celebrations
We at Summit Independent Living are grateful for all of the support we received from sponsors, community partners, allies, staff, peers, volunteers, consumers and our communities for our many events celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act this summer! We have seen great growth and promise over the last 25 years. To [...]
Summit Peer Wins Award
Summit Independent Living Peer Advocate Rick Eakle won the 2015 Rising Star Award in the Bitterroot Toastmasters Club for most improvement in speaking and/or leadership skills. For the award Eakle received a commemorative certificate and his name was added to the Bitterroot Toastmasters Club’s Montana-shaped plaque for permanent display in their meeting room. Rick, who [...]
Leadership Academy
Last month, peer advocate Jason Billehus gathered with other self-advocate leaders from the western United States in Seattle at the 2015 Pacific Alliance on Disability Self Advocacy (PADSA) Leadership Academy. There, leaders shared information and learned more about topics such as organizational management, social media, and self-advocate leadership with their self-advocacy organizations. Participants also created [...]