Programs & Services

LIFTT offers a wide range of services designed to give people with disabilities, their families, and the general public the tools and resources they need to improve independence, self-confidence, knowledge, skills, and access to community resources. The experienced staff at LIFTT are readily available to assist you in meeting goals to reduce attitudinal, architectural and communication barriers, combat discrimination, and promote the development of resources, programs, and policies. Like all Centers for Independent Living, our ultimate goal is increased independence, economic opportunity, and enhanced quality of life for all persons with disabilities.

Please take a moment to go over our programs and services and see what LIFTT can do for you today!

Center of
Independent Living

As a Center for Independent Living, LIFTT provides persons with disabilities in our region with services in six core areas:

  • Information & Referral
  • Individual & Systems Change Advocacy
  • Peer Program
  • Independent Living Skills Training
  • Institutional Transitions & Diversion
  • Youth Transitions
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Nonprofit

Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation governed by a consumer-controlled board of directors who each have personal experience with disability. LIFTT 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 as well as grants and donations from foundations and individuals.

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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 disabilites and aging indivduals with programs, services, resources and advocacy 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

Our Vision: Empowering aging individuals and people with disabilities to LIFTT themselves above the barriers of life.

Our Mission: Living Independently for Today and Tomorrow (LIFTT) mission as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit Center for Independent Living serving Southeastern Montana is to empower aging individuals and people with disabilities to live independently through education, support, and opportunities.

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For federal and state funding information for Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT), a Center for Independent Living, visit: liftt.org/funding-acknowledgement/