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Looking for (YouTube) Movie Stars!

Summit is looking for a few people who want to be in a short YouTube video for Give Local Missoula 2016. Our staff would film you working, playing or being yourself in our community while saying a quick tagline about what you do! If you want to show our community what you’re about, send an [...]

By |2016-10-31T23:23:29-06:00December 18th, 2015|Missoula County|Comments Off on Looking for (YouTube) Movie Stars!

(In)AbilityOne

We don’ been had. The AbilityOne program is supposed to be the largest federal job placement program for people with disabilities. This multi-billion dollar program is instead being found to be harming people with disabilities. Its actions actually take jobs away from those people, place others in sheltered workshops, and provide cozy deals for contractors [...]

By |2016-10-31T23:23:29-06:00December 18th, 2015|Action Alert, National|Comments Off on (In)AbilityOne

APRIL Conference – 2015

Recently, several Summit staff and board members traveled to Virginia to attend the National Conference on Rural Independent Living. One of the attendees, Wesley Schneider, posted several short live blog videos (vlogs) during the trip. We asked Wesley about his adventure. Here’s what he had to say. “The best part of my experience at APRIL [...]

By |2016-10-31T23:23:29-06:00December 18th, 2015|Americans with Disabilities Act, National, Youth|Comments Off on APRIL Conference – 2015

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 [...]

By |2016-10-31T23:23:29-06:00September 21st, 2015|Montana, National, People First|Comments Off on Marriage Equality

Missoula LIVE!!

Thanks to a grant from the Rural Institute, Summit ILC will run ‘Missoula LIVE!!,’ a ten-week communication-through-improvisation program that will culminate in a live comedy/variety show. Organizers will recruit up to 30 cast members with and without disabilities. By including people of different ages, backgrounds and abilities in the cast and crew, as well as [...]

By |2015-09-21T16:30:22-06:00September 21st, 2015|Missoula County, Youth|Comments Off on Missoula LIVE!!

Upcoming Events

Flathead County Social Security Orientation - First and third Wednesday monthly. Please call 257-0048 ext. 141, to register and get location. YODA - Youth group meets once a month. Living Well with a Disability - TBA Working Well with a Disability - TBA Social Activities - We get together four times a year for social [...]

By |2015-09-21T16:27:08-06:00September 21st, 2015|Flathead County, Missoula County, Ravalli County|Comments Off on Upcoming Events

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 [...]

By |2015-09-21T16:22:42-06:00September 21st, 2015|Americans with Disabilities Act, Montana, National|Comments Off on ADA 25 Celebrations

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 [...]

By |2015-09-21T16:18:46-06:00September 21st, 2015|Montana, Peer Advocates, Ravalli County|Comments Off on Summit Peer Wins Award

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 [...]

By |2015-09-21T16:16:54-06:00September 21st, 2015|Missoula County, Montana, National, Peer Advocates|Comments Off on Leadership Academy
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