Welcome to LIFTT!

Living Independently For Today and Tomorrow is committed to being fully accessible to people with all disabilities, whether physically impaired, hearing impaired, or visually impaired.

An introduction to LIFTT’s website in American Sign Language (ASL). Special thanks to Shawn Tulloch of Bozeman for being our signer.

Living Independently For Today and Tomorrow

Since beginning its mission over 30 years ago, LIFTT has been committed to providing programs and services that break down barriers for people with disabilities. LIFTT empowers consumers to live independent lives in their own homes and communities. Working across our 18 counties in Southeast and South-central Montana, we assist our consumers in everything from applying for social security benefits and finding affordable and accessible housing to navigating public transportation systems, self-directing their in-home caregiving, and becoming their own best advocate for what they need to live a fulfilling life.

Man with prosthetic leg hiking up a mountainside.

Disability Inclusion through Transportation

In this four-minute video, the LIFTT Team climbs aboard a Billings MET Transit bus to show how accessible transportation is essential for including persons with disabilities in our community and to “put on display the ADA accessibility of the (MET) system.”
 
Thanks to LIFTT executive director Carlos Ramalho and the City of Billings Transit Manager Rusty Logan for providing the commentary and to the members of the Billings LIFTT team and our MET Driver for participating in our “Bus Adventure.”

Helping SE Montanans Navigate Work, School, & Life!

In providing independent living services to Southeastern Montanans for over three decades, LIFTT has had the pleasure and privilege to help people with disabilities, of all ages, to gain the confidence and intelligence to advocate for themselves, and participate in all aspects of modern life.

From attending school and finding and keeping employment, participating in sports and recreation to socializing with friends and even relationships and raising families, LIFTT is here to make sure all our consumers cannot just live but thrive!

Little girl running ahead of her family on an autumn walk.

Local, State & National Advocacy for Individuals Living with Disabilities

From offices in Billings and Glendive, LIFTT provides consumer and advocacy services to residents of Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Rosebud, Stillwater, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone counties.  LIFTT also works on a systemic level on local, state, and national issues to cultivate, nurture, and improve the lives and legal rights of individuals living with disabilities.

Map of independent living centers in Montana.

Billings Office: (406) 259-5181

Glendive Office: (406) 948-8500

How LIFTT is Funded

Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation and is funded in part through grants and contracts with the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services and the Administration for Community Living, United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Several people putting their hands in the center.

Consumer Success Stories

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