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PCA Team Receives Glowing Review

PCA Team Receives Glowing Review

We are proud to share that LIFTT’s PCA Program has received a glowing review from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. Our team’s Self-Direct Provider Quality Assurance Report submission was recognized for its thoroughness, clarity, and commitment to excellence. In the reviewer’s words, the findings “suggest you have a comprehensive understanding of the outcome-based nature of this review process,” and praised the care and attention given to the standards and policies submitted.

This achievement reflects the hard work, knowledge, and dedication of the PCA team—program Supervisors Lanette Brown and Holly Hanson, as well as Program Facilitators Kylie Leeper, Madison Scott, Melea Roark, and Tana Stone. It also highlights LIFTT’s ongoing commitment to serving aging and disabled Montanans with integrity and professionalism.

Well done, PCA Team! Your work empowers individuals to live independently with dignity and choice.

For more information about Medicaid Self-Directed PCA services at LIFTT and see if you or someone you know might be eligible, click here or call our offices in Billings at (406) 259-5181 or Glendive at (406) 948-8500.

 

About Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT): LIFTT is a Montana 501(c)3 corporation organized as a Center for Independent Living (CIL). With team members based in Billings and Glendive, LIFTT provides aging and disabled members of the community with programs and services that help empower them to break down the physical, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers that prevent them from being fully independent participants in their lives and communities throughout 18 counties in southeastern and south-central Montana: Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Rosebud, Stillwater, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. For more information, please visit liftt.org or download our mobile app for your Apple or Android Device.

You can donate to LIFTT by clicking here.

LIFTT joins Give Local Glendive

LIFTT joins Give Local Glendive

LIFTT Team Members Shilo Mitelstad and Tana Stone visit with a youngster during the Give Local Glendive Event at the Eastern Plains Event Center on May 1, 2025

LIFTT Team Members Shilo Midelstead and Tana Stone visit with a youngster during the Give Local Glendive Event at the Eastern Plains Event Center on May 1, 2025. Give Local Glendive brought local nonprofits, businesses, and community members together to generate awareness of community programs, foster civic pride, and celebrate generosity.

On May 1, 2025, LIFTT proudly participated in Give Local Glendive – Community Day of Giving, an inspiring event organized by the Glendive Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture and the Greater  Glendive Community Foundation to celebrate generosity, civic pride, and local impact.

Held at the Eastern Plains Events Center downtown Glendive, the event brought together nonprofits, businesses, and community members with one shared goal: to strengthen local organizations that serve the people of Eastern Montana. LIFTT’s team was on hand to connect with attendees, share information about our services, and highlight the many ways we support aging and individuals with disabilities across our 18-county service area.

Our presence at the event helped increase public awareness of LIFTT’s mission, programs, and new transportation initiative in Eastern Montana. It also provided a valuable opportunity to build relationships with local residents, leaders, and fellow service providers.

We are grateful to the Glendive Chamber,  Greater Glendive Community Foundation, and to everyone who stopped by our booth, asked questions, or showed support. Events like these reinforce our belief in the power of community partnerships and the importance of making LIFTT’s services visible and accessible to all.

For more information about LIFTT’s operation in Glendive and the eastern portion of our service area, please call our Glendive office at (406) 948-8500 or stop by the office at 119 S. Kenderick Avenue. We are open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m

About Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT): LIFTT is a Montana 501(c)3 corporation organized as a Center for Independent Living (CIL). With team members based in Billings and Glendive, LIFTT provides aging and disabled members of the community with programs and services that help empower them to break down the physical, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers that prevent them from being fully independent participants in their lives and communities throughout 18 counties in southeastern and south-central Montana: Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Rosebud, Stillwater, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. For more information, please visit liftt.org or download our mobile app for your Apple or Android Device.

You can donate to LIFTT by clicking here.

LIFTT Renews Partnership with MTDH

LIFTT Renews Partnership with MTDH

Logo of the Montana Disability & Health Program. A team from MTDH will be at LIFTT June 17-18 to work on their Linkage Project.

Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT) has renewed its partnership with a long-time collaborator, The Montana Disability & Health Program (MTDH). In 2025, we are proud to work with MTDH on three projects that continue championing the rights, health, wellness, and independence of people with disabilities across our region.

Living Well in the Community (LWC) Workshops

LIFTT is training and supporting up to five facilitators to lead or co-lead LWC workshops, which promote self-determination, goal setting, and wellness for people with disabilities. These evidence-based workshops help participants develop skills to manage their health and daily life more effectively, offering encouragement and tools for independent living.

Accessibility Ambassadors Program

Our team works alongside community partners to conduct ADA Assessments and Inclusive Interdisciplinary Walk/Move (I²) Audits. These initiatives identify and reduce physical and systemic barriers, fostering more inclusive and accessible spaces in our neighborhoods. Accessibility Ambassadors play a vital role in ensuring that the built environment respects the rights and dignity of all community members.

Wellness Club and Linkage Events

LIFTT also hosts Wellness Club and Linkage events that connect consumers to peer support, health education, and community resources. These workshops build meaningful connections and reinforce a sense of belonging, empowerment, and holistic health among people with disabilities.

Each of these programs supports health, leadership, and community engagement, reflecting LIFTT’s commitment to promoting advocacy, accessibility, and inclusion to help Montanans with disabilities live fuller, more independent lives. We thank MTDH for their continued partnership with LIFTT and our consumers.

For more information about LIFTT’s MTDH projects as well as our many other programs and services, please give us a call at (406) 259-5181 (Billings), (406) 948-8500 (Glendive), or send us an email at liftt.org/contact 

About Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT): LIFTT is a Montana 501(c)3 corporation organized as a Center for Independent Living (CIL). With team members based in Billings and Glendive, LIFTT provides aging and disabled members of the community with programs and services that help empower them to break down the physical, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers that prevent them from being fully independent participants in their lives and communities throughout 18 counties in southeastern and south-central Montana: Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Rosebud, Stillwater, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. For more information, please visit liftt.org or download our mobile app for your Apple or Android Device.

You can donate to LIFTT by clicking here.

Motherhood, Disability, and the Quiet Architecture of Resilience

Motherhood, Disability, and the Quiet Architecture of Resilience

From the Desk of the Executive Director

Motherhood has always been a story of improvisation, courage, and unseen labor. But when disability intersects with motherhood — whether in the mother herself, her child, or her community — the story becomes even richer, more intricate, more demanding of the kind of perseverance that builds legacies in silence.

As we approach Mother’s Day, it’s important to acknowledge an often overlooked truth: that many mothers in our communities are engaged daily in strategic living.

They are not only caregivers. They are advocates. They are navigators of invisible systems. They are builders of possibility in landscapes shaped by inaccessibility, misunderstanding, and, too often, indifference.’

For mothers living with disabilities, the world often demands more than should ever be asked. They must raise families while educating schools, employers, policymakers, and even strangers, about their worth and needs. They must plan, adapt, negotiate, and sometimes fight, simply to have the same opportunities that others take for granted.

For mothers raising children with disabilities, every small victory — an accessible playground, a supportive teacher, a working elevator — feels monumental. The work is not just at the bedside or the breakfast table; it is also in the letters written, the meetings attended, the systems challenged, and the dreams defended, day after day.

Two sets of hands one a child's and one an adults stacking rocks

These mothers are tacticians of resilience. They know how to reimagine plans at a moment’s notice, endure when endurance feels impossible, and celebrate every achievement, however small, with a joy sharpened by the required effort.

At LIFTT, we understand that independence is not a solo journey — it is a collective act, sustained by communities, families, and, very often, by the strategic wisdom of mothers who refuse to give up on a future where all people can belong, thrive, and lead.

This Mother’s Day, we honor these architects of hope. We celebrate their quiet rebellions against barriers, their fierce defense of dignity, and their relentless shaping of spaces where independence is not a dream but a right.

Their work is not always visible, but everywhere—in every ramp built, every opportunity opened, and every life lifted higher.

Happy Mother’s Day to all who mother, nurture resilience, and believe in a world made more inclusive by love and perseverance.

With deep gratitude and respect,

Carlos Ramalho, Executive Director, Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT)

Carlos can be reached at (406) 294-5190 or carlosr@liftt.org

About Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT): LIFTT is a Montana 501(c)3 corporation organized as a Center for Independent Living (CIL). With team members based in Billings and Glendive, LIFTT provides aging and disabled members of the community with programs and services that help empower them to break down the physical, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers that prevent them from being fully independent participants in their lives and communities throughout 18 counties in southeastern and south-central Montana: Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Rosebud, Stillwater, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. For more information, please visit liftt.org or download our mobile app for your Apple or Android Device.

You can donate to LIFTT by clicking here.

SAIL Classes begin May 27

Join LIFTT for Staying Active & Independent for Life (SAIL)! SAIL is a 12-week program for seniors that focuses on building strength, balance, and flexibility, skills critical to maintaining independence, preventing falls, and improving overall well-being. Call (406) 259-5181 or visit Liftt.org/sail-grant for more info!

Living Independently for Today and Tomorrow (LIFTT) is excited to announce that we have received a generous grant from the Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services to participate in the Stay Active & Independent for Life (SAIL) Program! Beginning this summer, LIFTT will offer free SAIL classes designed for adults 65 and older. These classes will focus on building strength, balance, and flexibility, which are critical to maintaining independence, preventing falls, and improving overall well-being.

The SAIL Program is a 12-week evidence-based fitness series in which participants engage in exercises that can be performed standing or seated, as desired. Each session includes balance, strength, and stretching routines, and participants’ fitness progress will be assessed through periodic checks such as the 8-Foot Timed Up and Go TestBicep Curls, and Chair-Stand Exercises.

Through the support of the SAIL grant, LIFTT will be able to cover the costs of specialized equipment, instructor training, and accessible venues, ensuring that these vital classes are offered at no cost to our aging community members.

Why Bring SAIL to LIFTT?

  • 20% of Montana adults report not engaging in regular physical activity.
  • Two out of three Montana adults are overweight or obese.
  • Regular exercise improves balance and reduces the risk of falls, significantly decreasing the chance of injury, hospitalization, or loss of independence.
  • LIFTT’s mission has always been to empower aging and disabled individuals to live independently, and the SAIL program perfectly fits that vision.

The first SAIL training class at LIFTT begins its voyage with an orientation session on Tuesday, May 27 at 10 a.m. at the Billings LIFTT office (1241 Crawford Drive), with subsequent sessions held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. through August 14.

For more information about LIFTT’s SAIL training or to register, contact LIFTT’s Nutritional Health Coaches and certified SAIL trainers: Anya Pulis (406) 606-1766, anyap@liftt.org, or Eileen Rodgriguz (406) 294-5185, eileenr@liftt.org. More about the SAIL curriculum is available at sailfitness.org or through the Montana DPHHS Chronic Disease and Health Promotion Bureau. 

Let’s move together toward a stronger future!

About Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT): LIFTT is a Montana 501(c)3 corporation organized as a Center for Independent Living (CIL). With team members based in Billings and Glendive, LIFTT provides aging and disabled members of the community with programs and services that help empower them to break down the physical, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers that prevent them from being fully independent participants in their lives and communities throughout 18 counties in southeastern and south-central Montana: Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Rosebud, Stillwater, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. For more information, please visit liftt.org or download our mobile app for your Apple or Android Device.

You can donate to LIFTT by clicking here.

LIFTT Expands Partnership with Vocational Rehabilitation

LIFTT Expands Partnership with Vocational Rehabilitation

Living Independently for Today and Tomorrow (LIFTT) is proud to announce that we are expanding our partnership wth Montana Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services! Together, we are providing support for adults and students with disabilities as they prepare for greater independence, employment, and success.

Through this collaboration with Vocational Rehabilitation, LIFTT is now offering services for

Adults Seeking Employment and Independence:

  • Career exploration and planning
  • Soft skills training and supported employment
  • Skills training, job placement, and retention support
  • Assistive technology and workplace accommodations
  • Support for independent living and community engagement
  • Customized employment services based on individual strengths and goals

Youth and Students (Ages 14–21) through Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS):

  • Job exploration counseling
  • Soft skills training and supported employment
  • Work-based learning experiences like internships and job shadowing
  • Workplace readiness training (communication, problem-solving, professionalism)
  • Counseling on post-secondary education and training opportunities
  • Self-advocacy instruction to promote independence and empowerment

Whether you are a student preparing for your first job or an adult ready for new career opportunities, LIFTT and VR support your journey toward success! For more information about vocational rehabilitation services through LIFTT, call (406) 259-5181 (Billings) or (406) 948-8500 (Glendive), send us a message through liftt.org/contact, or reach out to your regional VR office.

About Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT): LIFTT is a Montana 501(c)3 corporation organized as a Center for Independent Living (CIL). With team members based in Billings and Glendive, LIFTT provides aging and disabled members of the community with programs and services that help empower them to break down the physical, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers that prevent them from being fully independent participants in their lives and communities throughout 18 counties in southeastern and south-central Montana: Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Rosebud, Stillwater, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. For more information, please visit liftt.org or download our mobile app for your Apple or Android Device.

You can donate to LIFTT by clicking here.

Montana’s Disability History Demands your Attention

Montana’s Disability History Demands your Attention

A group of disabled children in Billings Montana in the early portion of the 20th century

In this photo from the Western Heritage Center collection a group of children most of whom are using artificial limbs, crutches and/or wheelchairs and were part of a community based program set up at St. Vincent hospital in the early 20th century pose with their caregivers/teachers who are nuns from Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth.

Equally Different, Unequally Remembered

Let’s be honest.

Disability is everywhere, yet historically, it’s been almost nowhere. Not in the textbooks, not in the museum wings, not in the official timelines of “how we got here.” Until now. From March to December 2025, the Western Heritage Center in Billings is hosting a groundbreaking exhibition: “Equally Different: Uncovering the History of Disability in Montana.” And no, this isn’t your average stroll through sepia-toned nostalgia.

This is about truth-telling. About visibility. About refusing to disappear.

Why This Exhibition Hits Different

This isn’t a story about charity or pity. It’s a story about power. It’s about how people with disabilities in Montana survived, organized, and dared to demand more—even when society told them to stay quiet, stay hidden, or stay institutionalized. t’s about the State School at Boulder. It’s about forced silence. It’s about resistance. It’s about how disability, though always part of our collective story, was edited out — until now. And if you think this is just “history,” think again. This is now.

DEI Isn’t Complete Without the “D” That Everyone Forgets

Do you want to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion? Let’s talk about how disability is almost always the last guest invited to the table — if invited at all. “Equally Different” forces the conversation wide open. It doesn’t just fit into DEI — it expands it. It disrupts the idea that DEI is about marketing slogans and training modules. It says:

  • Where were disabled voices in your civil rights curriculum?
  • Why do your hiring policies celebrate diversity but exclude accessibility?
  • What happens when inclusion doesn’t include everyone?

This exhibition isn’t polite. It’s necessary, and it gives us all a choice: keep doing surface-level work, or go deeper.

 LIFTT’s Role: We’re Not Observers, We’re Participants

At LIFTT, we don’t see history as a spectator sport. We’re part of this ongoing narrative. We honor this exhibition because it names what was hidden. It tells the stories of people who fought for ramps, rights, respect, and are still fighting. It also reminds us that independent living was never handed out like a gift. It was won. So no, we’re not just encouraging you to visit the exhibition.
We’re asking you to let it change you.

Go.

Walk through it. Sit with it.

Let it make you uncomfortable.

Let it open something up.

And when you leave, don’t say, “Wow, I didn’t know.”

Say, “Now that I do — what will I do next?”

 History is only powerful when it moves us, and the fight for equity is only real when disability is not an afterthought — but a starting point. Let’s stop rewriting history to exclude. Let’s start living it equally different, and unapologetically whole.

The Western Heritage Center is located at 2822 Montana Avenue in downtown Billings and is open Tuesdays-Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the museum is $5 for adults. $3 students & seniors, and free for children under age six. The buliding, which at one time was home to the Billings Public Library, has an ADA accessible elevator and an accessible entry is located at ground level to the right of the main entry staircase. The museum also provides what is known as a “Social Story” as a guide to help potential visitors with concerns about social interaction and public spaces learn what to expect when they come to the museum. For more information about the Western Heritage Center visit ywhc.org or call (406) 256-6809.

 

 

About Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT): LIFTT is a Montana 501(c)3 corporation organized as a Center for Independent Living (CIL). With team members based in Billings and Glendive, LIFTT provides aging and disabled members of the community with programs and services that help empower them to break down the physical, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers that prevent them from being fully independent participants in their lives and communities throughout 18 counties in southeastern and south-central Montana: Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Rosebud, Stillwater, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. For more information, please visit liftt.org or download our mobile app for your Apple or Android Device.

You can donate to LIFTT by clicking here.

Outnumbered: an interactive art protest to save Section 504!

Outnumbered: an interactive art protest to save Section 504!

A bald white man sits at a classic school student desk sharpening pencils with several hundred pencils sitting another desk next to whom and a banner behind reading Disability Human Rights SAVE 504

Over 5000 pencils, one for each Montana student with a 504 accommodation plan, are being sharpened at Disability Rights Montana as an artistic protest of Attorney General Austen Knudsen’s participation in a lawsuit seeking to strip the right of people with disabilities to receive accommodations to participate in federally funded programs and services.

What do 5,401 pencils and a civil rights law passed in 1973 have in common? They’re both being slowly ground down in Montana.

Disability Rights Montana has launched a bold, creative protest in response to Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s participation in a lawsuit seeking to gut Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. This law prohibits discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs. If successful, this lawsuit would deprive thousands of individuals of legal protection, including the 5,401 Montana students in grades K-12 currently supported by 504 accommodation plans.

To resist, DRM is inviting the public to help sharpen 5,401 pencils to the nub — each one representing a student whose rights are on the line. It’s tactile, symbolic, and open to all.

When? April 10, noon to 7 PM
Where? 1022 Chestnut Street, Helena (fully accessible)
Can I attend remotely? Livestream at disabilityrightsmt.org
Use hashtag #ArtForRightsMT

LIFTT proudly supports Disability Rights Montana in defending Section 504 and opposing the Attorney General’s actions. We believe access is a right, not a debate.

Want to join the movement or bring this mobile protest to your town? Reach out to Kona Franks-Ongoy at (406) 441-4810 or kona@dr-mt.org.

Section 504 has always been about visibility, equity, and basic human dignity. Let’s not let anyone sharpen it out of existence.

About Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT): LIFTT is a Montana 501(c)3 corporation organized as a Center for Independent Living (CIL). With team members based in Billings and Glendive, LIFTT provides aging and disabled members of the community with programs and services that help empower them to break down the physical, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers that prevent them from being fully independent participants in their lives and communities throughout 18 counties in southeastern and south-central Montana: Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Rosebud, Stillwater, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. For more information, please visit liftt.org or download our mobile app for your Apple or Android Device.

You can donate to LIFTT by clicking here.

Empty Shelves, Louder Voices

Empty Shelves, Louder Voices

An empty shelving unit with a sign on it saying

What Happens When Food Security Becomes a Footnote?

Let’s name the silence.

Montana’s food banks are hurting. Not metaphorically. Not bureaucratically. But tangibly — like empty shelves where there used to be fresh produce, like waiting rooms that once had warmth and now only echo. Recently, the federal rug was pulled from under two essential food programs: the Local Food for Schools Program and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program. Long names. Quiet supports. Gone now.Together, these programs injected over a billion dollars into local economies, nourishing bodies, sustaining farmers, and holding fragile systems together. And just like that, it was deleted from the ledger. Montana’s most vulnerable communities, already navigating scarcity, now stand in even longer lines, only to receive less. Less food. Less dignity. Less care.

The Anatomy of a Cut

The programs did more than fund logistics. They curated relationships: between food and community, between rural producers and urban hunger, between local abundance and collective survival. Now that the relationship has been severed, already stretched food banks in Montana are scaling back. Volunteers are turning away people they used to welcome. Once proud contributors to community health, small farmers are left with surplus they can’t distribute and dreams they can’t afford.

And none of this feels accidental.

Where Does LIFTT Stand?

We are a Center for Independent Living, yes. But we are also a center for humanity. And food insecurity is not a side issue — it’s central. You can’t fight for civil rights on an empty stomach. You can’t access public transit if you’re faint from skipping meals. Independence without nourishment is a contradiction.

So we say: this matters.

To everyone who once depended on a food box to stretch their month: we see you. To the food banks trying to hold the line: we stand with you To the growers who now wonder if justice and agriculture can still coexist: we thank you.

This Is Not the End of the Story

Postmodernism, if it teaches us anything, tells us not to trust the old narratives. That power often speaks in the passive voice. That erasure begins with a policy memo. And yet — every system can be rewritten. Every absence can become an invitation.

So, what do we do?

  • We listen louder to those on the ground, those in the grocery lines, and those who lost access overnight.
  • We connect the dots because hunger doesn’t happen in a vacuum—it intersects with disability, poverty, race, geography, and dignity.
  • We create anyway: gardens, co-ops, community kitchens, mutual aid networks. We remember that we’ve always found ways to nourish each other, with or without permission.

LIFTT will continue to advocate, to amplify, and to resist the narrative that says, “There’s nothing we can do.” Because there is always something.

And if the shelves are empty, we’ll fill them with our voices.

About Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT): LIFTT is a Montana 501(c)3 corporation organized as a Center for Independent Living (CIL). With team members based in Billings and Glendive, LIFTT provides aging and disabled members of the community with programs and services that help empower them to break down the physical, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers that prevent them from being fully independent participants in their lives and communities throughout 18 counties in southeastern and south-central Montana: Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Rosebud, Stillwater, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. For more information, please visit liftt.org or download our mobile app for your Apple or Android Device.

You can donate to LIFTT by clicking here.

Thank you for supporting LIFTT in March!

Thank you for supporting LIFTT in March!

An orange cartoon speech buble with the words Thank You printed in white outlined in green

Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT) would like to thank all of the people who showed up and donated at the two fundraising events we held during March. Your generosity made the Cheesecake Luncheon in Glendive and the Pizza Ranch Night in Billings successful!

Special kudos go to the LIFTT team members who pulled together to do the planning, promotion, baking, cooking, decorating, soup serving, table bussing, and the myriad of other tasks these events require without missing a beat on their “day jobs,” empowering our consumers. Finally, a shout-out to our event hosts, Black Sheep Market in Glendive and Billings West Pizza Ranch, We appreciate you letting us come into your business.

In this time where so much uncertainty surrounds our traditional sources of funding, LIFTT will be embarking on more public facing fundraising so keep your eyes out for more events in the near future. If you don’t want to wait until our next fundraiser to give you can visit liftt.org/donate or send your contributions to: LIFTT 1241 Crawford Drive Billings, MT 59102. All money donated goes right back to serving the aging and disabled community in southeastern and southcentral Montana.

About Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT): LIFTT is a Montana 501(c)3 corporation organized as a Center for Independent Living (CIL). With team members based in Billings and Glendive, LIFTT provides aging and disabled members of the community with programs and services that help empower them to break down the physical, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers that prevent them from being fully independent participants in their lives and communities throughout 18 counties in southeastern and south-central Montana: Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Rosebud, Stillwater, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. For more information, please visit liftt.org or download our mobile app for your Apple or Android Device.

You can donate to LIFTT by clicking here.