LIFTT Wishes all a Joyful and Hopeful 2026 | | |
As we step into a brand-new year, all of us at LIFTT want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the people who make our mission possible.
To our consumers, community partners, donors, funders, collaborators, volunteers, board members, and dedicated staff: thank you. Your commitment, compassion, and belief in independence for all have carried us through another year of growth, innovation, and collective strength.
May 2026 bring each of you peace, health, happiness, and prosperity.
May your homes be warm, your hearts be full, and your days be bright with possibilities.
And may we continue to walk forward together, building a community where everyone can live independently, joyfully, and with dignity.
From our LIFTT family to yours,
Happy New Year!
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Introducing our 2026 Peer Program
LIFTT is proud to announce the launch of a completely re-envisioned Peer Program: a dynamic, community-centered, barrier-breaking initiative.
Something New is Growing at LIFTT!
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LIFTT's Year of Growing Forward
In 2025, as the LIFTT team traveled through Southeast and South-Central Montana, one truth became increasingly clear: the desire for independence is universal.
LIFTT Executive Director Carlos Ramalho offers this and other lessons the organization has learned this past year, as well as a look at the number of folks we have served.
Learn more about LIFTT's 2025
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Hope on Wheels: How One Chair Kept Independence Rolling
Thanks to the quick action of a cross-departmental team of LIFTT employees and a donated power wheelchair, KD, a consumer of LIFTT's Self-Directed Personal Assistance Services Program (SDPAS), was able to maintain their independence and keep rolling when their regular power chair needed repairs.
For KD, it was “just” a loaner chair. For LIFTT, it was a promise kept.
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"Optimize Your Brain Health" Starts January 14
Are you interested in learning lifestyle habits that help prevent Dementia? Join our FREE 8-week class entitled "Optimize Your Brain Health!" Class sessions will be held on Wednesdays at 3 p.m. beginning January 14 and running until March 4.
Get the Support You Need!
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A Trio of Reflections
On Working at LIFTT
As 2025 draws to a close, three LIFTT team members offer reflections on how working at LIFTT and supporting our consumers "to empower themselves above the barriers of life" has impacted them personally and professionally.
SDPAS Program Senior Advisor, Lanette Brown, writes about how, after 17 years at LIFTT, she still considers it "an honor to help bring a bit more independence into the lives of our consumers and to see the difference it makes."
Billings IL Program Manager, Pamela Ramirez, tells about how she is "proud to contribute to a mission that uplifts voices, honors experiences, and removes barriers one person, one step, one success story at a time."
Nutritional Health Coach, Eileen Rodriguez, shares about how coming to LIFTT has allowed her to achieve a dream to create a "Brain Health Community a place where people not only learn what supports cognitive wellness, but also truly experience what it’s like to live it."
Read Lanette, Pamela, and Eileen's Full Reflections
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LIFTT Takes to the Road in Style!
In an effort to strengthen our presence throughout southeastern and south-central Montana, LIFTT is proud to announce that all agency vehicles are now being wrapped in a vibrant new design that celebrates who we are and the communities we serve.
The colorful hot-air-balloon motif, paired with LIFTT’s logo and mission statement, ensures that our message of Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow is visible wherever our work takes us.
Eye Catching Ambassadors for Independent Living
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Connecting Communities with Information & Referral
At LIFTT, we believe that information is independence. Every day, our staff helps Montanans with disabilities and those who are aging discover pathways toward autonomy, stability, and inclusion.
This philosophy drives our Information and Referral (I&R) services: the heart of how we connect people with the resources that can transform daily life.
Learn More About This Core Service
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Community Living Skills Workshop Starts January 20
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.
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.
Click for Workshop Topics & Registration Info
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Support LIFTT's Mission and Vision
In this era of uncertain federal, state, and foundation support, your contributions are more vital than ever.
Any amount you give will go directly to supporting LIFTT's programs and services, which promote independence and self-determination for elders and people with disabilities in our region.
Donate to LIFTT Today!
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Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (LIFTT)
1241 Crawford Drive Billings, MT 59102 · (406) 259-5181
119 South Kendrick Avenue · P.O. Box 1387 Glendive, MT 59330 · (406) 948-8500
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.
LIFTT is partly funded through contracts and grants from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, USAging, National Aging and Disability Transportation Center, and the Administration for Community Living, United States Department of Health and Human Services. The statements herein do not necessarily reflect the opinion of DPHHS, USAging, NADTC, ACL, or HHS.
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