This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: University of Montana, Rural Institute on Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Montana
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
This program supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities at work, at home, and in the community. It provides day services that include self advocacy training and work skills and employment services and training.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Northern Rocky Mountain
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program provides trainings to help individuals with disabilities achieve full community integration. One focus area is Working Well with a Disability, which prepares individuals to enjoy fully integrated employment and develop healthy work relationships.
Operating Entity: University of Montana, Rural Institute on Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This program helps students who are blind, deaf, or deaf-blind prepare to transition out of high school. Based on a student's IEP, they may take classes focus on life skills, applied math, employability, cooking, and career exploration. The program may also include job shadowing and employment opportunities.
Operating Entity: Montana School for the Deaf and the Blind
Entity Type: Other
This program provides advocacy services for individuals with disabilities, including self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Montana Independent Living Project (mILp)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Youth Development & Leadership
This program provides information, technical assistance, and professional development to families and professionals who provide services to individuals who are deaf-blind, in order to improve their outcomes. Transition is one area of focus for the project.
Operating Entity: University of Montana, Rural Institute on Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
This program seeks to enrich the lives of youth with disabilities through the arts, as well as assisting participants in pursuing education, employment, and interdependence and developing self-advocacy skills. Specific programming includes improv comedy nights, dance and movement classes, all-abilities yoga classes, art groups and classes, and more.
Operating Entity: Summit Independent Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program guides students with disabilities through the transition from high school to college. Participants develop the study skills, social skills, and personal skills of successful college students; develop their own transition portfolios; and spend four days on the Montana State University Billings campus living in the residence hall and attending classes.
Operating Entity: Montana State University - Billings, Montana Center for Inclusive Education
Entity Type: College / University
Topic(s): School-Based Prep, Youth Development & Leadership
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Montana Empowerment Center, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program matches individuals with similar disabilities in peer support and counseling settings to empower each other through encouragement and support. This service assists individuals adapting to life with a disability or transitioning through different life stages.
Operating Entity: Montana Independent Living Project (mILp)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Youth Development & Leadership
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Montana
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program assists youth with disabilities ages 14-24 in transitioning to post-secondary education and/or employment. Services include referrals to vocational rehabilitation services, employment and education assistance, independent living skills training, self-advocacy training, and peer mentorship.
Operating Entity: Living Independently for Today and Tomorrow (LIFTT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This webpage provides links to various mental health resources, including crisis lines and guides on managing stress during COVID-19.
Operating Entity: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
Topic(s): Mental Health
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services has increased availability of its Montana Warm Line to help fill additional needs brought on by COVID-19. The Warm Line provides free, confidential intervention with emotional support that can prevent a crisis. The department has further allocated additional funds to Thrive by Waypoint Health, online cognitive behavioral therapy for those actively working to manage anxiety and stress.
Operating Entity: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
Topic(s): Mental Health
The Montana Office of Public Instruction created a web page that offers guidance, resources, and tools to assist districts, IEP teams, and families as they work together to provide the most appropriate services in light of the student, schools, and communities unique individual circumstances. The web page includes federal guidance, state guidance, and resources on school reopening, IEPs, telehealth, and much more.
Operating Entity: Montana Office of Public Instruction
Topic(s): Distance Learning, IEP, Telehealth
This campaign is designed to raise awareness about student mental health and promote resources available to all Montana University System students and employees to address mental health needs. It includes three main resources: a mental health and wellness app, an online referral platform and a virtual mental health literacy and suicide prevention training. This initiative was born out of work from the Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Task Force aimed at addressing and responding to increased mental health needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Operating Entity: Montana University System
Topic(s): Mental Health