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Sharing Your Story: A Guide to Medicaid Advocacy

May 22, 2025

Medicaid provides funding for services that help millions of people with disabilities and their families across the country. This guide has information to help you share your lived experience with policymakers so they understand the importance of Medicaid and the services it provides to people with disabilities. In the guide, you will find information about how Medicaid works and commonly proposed threats, along with tips for sharing your story and a worksheet to help you plan your advocacy message.

Resource created by The Boggs Center on Disability and Human Development. The preparation of this resource was funded by award #90DDUC0097-03-00 from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living, Administration on Disabilities.

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