The University of Montana has been promoting the health of people with disabilities for several years through a curriculum entitled, Living Well with a Disability. The project contains nine units aimed at preventing and managing secondary conditions in people with disabilities. Professionals from independent living centers and persons with disabilities from rural areas in Montana were involved in the design of the community-based health promotion intervention. Each unit includes strategies for accessing community resource mobilization, surveillance or assessment, topical consumer workshops with self-help information, individual prevention planning, referral for needed services, case advocacy, follow-up, peer support and consumer advocacy. Eight community-based workshops targeting various secondary conditions were developed. The workshops included development of individual prevention objectives and case-management support. A workshop leader's guide was also developed that included directions on how to organize and conduct each session. Suggestions on organizing transportation and accessibility-related issues were include in the materials.

The University of Montana program was later revised based on a study involving 119 adults with spinal cord injuries. The major change that occurred to the curriculum was to place a greater emphasis on health being a means to enabling important personal goals to be attained by providing detailed exercises for clarifying personal goals. The revised curriculum includes 10 units: Goal setting, Problem solving, Healthy Reactions, What to Do When You Have the Blues, Healthy Communications, Information Seeking and Managing Your Health, Increasing Physical Activity, Eating Well, Advocacy, and Maintenance.