By Shelby Humphreys It’s 7:00 am, and even the tendons hugging my bones ache. It’s way too early to go vertical. But I committed to being on-staff, at a conference, in an hour. I roll to my side and yank the bed covers overhead. I remember the day I volunteered for this gig. What [...]
Social Security (Retirement and Disability): 2.0% increase Medicare Part B Monthly Premium: $134 (or higher depending on your income) Supplemental Security Income (SSI): 2.0% increase Individual - $750/month Couple - $1125/month Essential Person - $376/month Substantial Gainful Activity Guidelines: Blind - $1970 Non-blind - $1180 Trial Work Period Threshold: $850 For more [...]
Despite our and your best efforts to stop budget cuts to vital programs during the past year, and during the special legislative session in November 2017, many budget reductions were implemented and will go into effect starting in January 2018. While we were successful in helping to save or lessen the impact on some [...]
The 1st part of Oct. the Ravalli County peers put together a scarecrow for the Stevensville contest. It was a great group effort. A very rough wheel chair was made for the scarecrow to sit on surrounded by all kinds of scary things made by the craftsmen at our TGIAF (Thank Goodness it’s Activity [...]
Summit Independent Living in Kalispell: Happy New Year! We have a yoga class planned for January 23rd for those of you interested in learning some yoga moves to do while you are sitting down. RSVP needed. Along with our activities and classes with our consumers, our office has been busy with classes in the [...]
Summit has been extremely busy this fall combating efforts on the federal level to dismantle long-term services and supports, namely the Community First Choice Program and the Medicaid program, as well as trying to beat back devastating budget cuts that have been proposed by Gov. Bullock on the state level. While for the time [...]
On September 11, Montana’s Centers for Independent Living, ADAPT Montana, Disability Rights Montana, the Montana Dental Association, the Behavior Health Association of Montana, Mental Health America of Montana, the Montana Youth Leadership Forum, the Montana Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and Western Montana Mental Health Center and other disability and aging advocates, providers, and consumers held a [...]
Positive changes will occur this fall at Summit’s Ravalli County office in Hamilton. We will be offering Workshops on Wednesdays (WOW) to give consumers opportunities to take classes like Independence and Gratitude and Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP). WOW will occur weekly beginning in late October, time TBA. Consumers are also welcome and encouraged [...]
• Help UM researchers learn about barriers encountered by people with disabilities. • Answer survey questions about how you live in your home and community. • Be reimbursed up to $110 over a 6-month period for completing surveys. Participants must: • Have a physical/mobility disability. • Be receiving at least one service from Summit [...]
Disability advocates from Montana’s Centers for Independent Living and ADAPT Montana have been putting pressure on Sen. Daines urging him to vote no on the current Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) that the U.S. Senate has been working on. The BCRA does a number of harmful things for people with disabilities including: Moving individuals [...]