Susan Morris recently had the pleasure of meeting Jackie Burgess, the new director for Sanders County Council on Aging! Jackie and Susan teamed up with Mariah Myton from Western Montana Mental Health, Duane Lutke from Area VI Agency on Aging and Sheryl Weatherell of the foster grandparent program to host an Aging & Disability Resource [...]
30 years of service alongside people with disabilities Happy Leap Year from Missoula, we hope you did one thing for yourself on this extra day of the year! Here are some of the exciting things we have done or plan to do this year! Summit Classes: We have just finished the winter sessions of the [...]
Here in Lake County, we are getting ready to finish the second quarter at SKC and looking forward to a two-week break. Next quarter, we’ll start with a new of Living Well with a Disability class. Susan Morris from Missoula is gearing up to start the Safer and Stronger research program here. If you know [...]
“Every Day We Juggling” Do you ever feel like you just have too many balls in the air at one time? Well, here at Summit youth programs we understand this feeling. It seems like every day we’re juggling, juggling BALLS classes that is! In the last two months we have started and finished three different [...]
Hello from YODA! We got the New Year started off by giving back. On January 25, we held a focus group for the representatives of the Playground Project. The Playground Project is a group fundraising and organizing for the construction of an accessible all-abilities playground in Missoula. YODA members gave great input and feedback. The [...]
Summit’s new SDPAS Assistant, Betsy Ames, graduated from UM with a degree in social work. She spent nearly 15 years working at UM’s Curry Health Center. Betsy has three grown daughters and one grandson. She enjoys helping her daughter sell baked goods at the farmer’s market. Welcome to the team Betsy!
Somewhere in Missoula, just off Mullen Road, on a quiet street called Shindig Lane, at the end of a little drive, sits an exceptional home. The home isn’t uniquely colored. It’s gray and tan with maroon doors and common white gutters. It isn’t especially large, nor is it a strangely shaped. No, this little home [...]
What do the Little Rascals have to do with standing up for yourself? Well, if you ask advocate Jason Billehus – a lot. Jason is a member of the Missoula Valley People First chapter and is part of the Montana People First Senate. He sits on the Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) board and is [...]
In October ’09, Montana Independent Living Centers gathered in Billings to hold their Symposium. Seven task forces were identified to address the various barriers facing Montanans with disabilities. The Housing Task Force (HTF), having representation from all four Centers, decided work towards expanding affordable/accessible housing. Promoting and advocating for Visitability became, and still is, the [...]
When the well-known Maclay Ranch south of Lolo was sold to a Minnesotan in December 2007, people wondered and feared what would happen. It was a last conservation stronghold in the northern Bitterroot valley where development and increasing traffic abound. The Maclay family had owned the land for three generations and enabled hunters, anglers and [...]