DC Week of Action (and Joy)
Little Lobbyists' intern Grace Heuer writes about taking the fight to Capitol Hill...and rethinking what advocacy can look like.
Audrey's Story: Medicaid Keeps Kids and Families Together
Without Medicaid, Audrey could become a ward of the state, instead of at home with people who love her.
David's Story: Medicaid is a Lifeline in Our Rural Community
Our close-knit Alaskan community knows it takes a village — and Medicaid — to raise a child.
Liviana's Story: An Accident Can Change Your Life Forever
When a tree branch fell on our daughter Liviana's head, she became a totally different person. Medicaid was there for her in her time of need.
Ansley's Story: How Supportive Services Transform the Lives of Medically Complex Children
The Children's Center at the University of Southern Mississippi values medically complex children as people and provided my daughter Ansley with the best quality of life.
Ian's Story: How the Medicaid Health Insurance Premium Payment Program Saves Lives
The Medicaid Health Insurance Premium Payment Program backs up our private insurance to keep Ian safe and thriving.
Knowing How to Do All the Stuff: An Interview with Kelley Coleman
Her voice was like the spirit guide to parenting I’ve always wanted, telling me how I could do all the hard things, making suggestions and holding my hand.
Be a Hero: In Memory of Ady Barkan
There is the type of courage where we put on our armor and charge into the battlefield, and there is the type of courage where we strip down and bare our vulnerabilities for all to see.
Judy Heumann, Rolling Warrior
Judy Heumann has been called the mother of the disability rights movement, and her life reflected that. She was kind, warm, encouraging to Little Lobbyists families, and, especially to our children.
Share the Journey with Jeneva: Matthew Plantz on the Importance of Community Inclusion
Matthew Plantz is a lifelong advocate for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities at the local, state, and federal level.
When No One Consults the Disability Community: The Unfit Transition to ENFit
The response came quickly, informing me that the manufacturer is no longer making the INF0500-A, the product we have used for over a decade when my son had surgery to place a gastrostomy tube and we learned a whole new vocabulary.
Covid Isn’t Over: Disabled Lives Are Still at Stake
As I’ve reflected on this experience, I am grateful for vaccines and effective treatments for Covid. But it is also clear that hospitals are simply OVER Covid and they are OVER dealing with disabled people who have it.
Remembering Julie Beckett: Discovering Our Strength
For three long years, Julie fought the state and federal governments, seeking a way to bring Katie home, where she would be surrounded by love and where she would ultimately thrive.