Peer Mentor named new Data Manager

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Tricia Cutright has been named LIFTT’s new Data Manager. Cutright has been with the agency since 2019 as a peer mentor.

Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT) is pleased to announce that Patricia (Tricia) Cutright has been chosen as the agency’s new Data Manager. Cutright succeeds Steve Woodard who is retiring after more than a dozen years with LIFTT; the last two as Data Manager.

Cutright is no stranger to LIFTT. Since 2019, she has been part of the organization as a Peer Mentor, becoming enmeshed in the workings of LIFTT and promoting the independent living philosophy. Tricia has also assisted with the Peer Support Group, assisting IL Specialists in the Billings office, and representing LIFTT as part of the Yellowstone County Local Behavioral Health Advisory Committee.

“Our peer mentoring program is designed to educate about independent living and prepare the participating peers to learn skills that prepare them for further work either here at LIFTT or in the wider community,” said LIFTT Executive Director Carlos Ramalho.

“Tricia rising from the peer program to become our next Data Manager is a perfect example of that concept working as intended. I would hope people with disabilities would look at what Tricia has accomplished and see themselves doing similar things through our peer program.”

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 people with disabilities 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 southcentral Montana: Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Golden Valley, McCone, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Stillwater, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. Please visit liftt.org or download our mobile app on Apple or Google Play for more information.