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Community Living Skills
January 20 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT) is pleased to announce a “Community Living Skills” (CLS) Workshop. The 10-week workshop begins on Tuesday, January 20, and will run for 10 sessions through Tuesday, March 31, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The workshop will be hybrid, available both in person at the Billings LIFTT office (1241 Crawford Drive) and online via Microsoft Teams to participants throughout our 18-county service area.
Designed as part of the Healthy Community Living (HCL) program and rooted in the Independent Living Philosophy, CLS is for people with disabilities to build skills, share ideas, and explore opportunities they can use in their everyday lives. Each of the ten sessions covers a different topic, designed to help participants learn and practice skills that will allow them to live more independently. Topics covered in CLS include:
- Disability Identity
- Peer Support
- Self Advocacy
- Self-Care
- Housing
- Technology
- Budgeting & Finance
- Healthy Relationships
- Transportation
- Time Use & Management
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.
Our Vision: Empowering aging and disabled individuals to LIFTT themselves above the barriers of life.
Our Mission: Living Independently for Today and Tomorrow – LIFTT’s mission is to empower aging and disabled individuals to live independently through education, support, and opportunities.
