Please Take Our Survey:
Please help Summit improve our services. By filling out one of our surveys you will be helping us develop our next three-year plan as well as making sure we can continue to meet your and your community's needs.
If you are a person with a disability or a family member of a person with a disability, please take the Consumer/Family Member Survey.
-- Consumer/Family Member Survey
If you are a service provider who provides services to people with disabilities, please fill out the Service Provider Survey.
-- Service Provider Survey
Summit Independent Living Center, Inc. is a non-profit, non-residential program serving people with mobility, neurological, hearing, visual, and other disabilities.
Services are available to residents of Missoula, Ravalli, Mineral, Lake, Sanders, Flathead, and Lincoln Counties.
We believe that people with disabilities have the right to control their own lives and enjoy the same opportunities as all other citizens. This includes the right to:
- Make their own decisions and direct their own affairs,
- Have a family life,
- Have choice in services, transportation, housing, education and employment,
- Participate fully in the social, economic and political life in their communities, and
- Contribute their unique talents and abilities as respected members of their communities
Current Events...
Emergency Preparedness Workshop
We will be guiding people through putting together emergency plans.
Bring information that you would want emergency responders to know: medications, transportation needs, health conditions, etc.
When: June 5 (1:00 - 3:00) or June 7 (10:00 - 12:00)
Where: Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins, Missoula
Call Kathy at 728-1630 and reserve a spot!
Participate in Disability Research!
Do you have a disability that started before you were 22 years old?
If so, you are invited to help the Rural Institute on Disabilities with their research study about health and safety and people with developmental disabilities.
The Rural Institute on Disabilities at The University of Montana is doing this study. You may be able to participate if:
- You are at least 18 years old
- You have a disability or hearing impairment that started before age 22
- Your disability makes a difference in how you learn, or understand, or speak, or see, or move, or work, or live on your own without any help.
This study will take place all over Montana. The study is an interview and will take at least two hours. Part of the interview will be on a computer, and someone will be there to help, if needed.
Men and women who are a part of this study will be paid $40.
If you are in Montana and want to be in the study, or if you have any questions, please contact Kathy Boyer at (406) 728-1630 or (800) 398-9002 or by email at kboyer@summitilc.org.
Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities
The Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities program, which began July 1, 2010, allows people with disabilities to go or return to work and earn more money without losing their healthcare coverage through the Medicaid program.
Through an affordable fee, people can "buy-in" to the program, which covers necessities such as personal assistance and developmental disability services.
To learn more about the Medicaid for Workers
with Disabilities program, please visit Summit's Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities program information page.