Little Lobbyists

The Little Lobbyists is a family advocacy group that seeks to protect and expand the rights of children with complex medical needs. For the last several months, we have been visiting Capitol Hill to make the voices of families like ours heard. Our goal, in light of the ongoing healthcare debate, is to bring attention to the medical needs of children with complex medical needs ours by making a visible impact and showing up in-person so legislators and their staff can see our kids and their trachs, ventilators, oxygen tanks, feeding tubes, wheelchairs, and more. But more importantly, we want people to understand that our kids are real kids who go to school and love to play, who are funny and kind and mischievous and amazing, and who deserve access to healthcare. We have been meeting with legislators and sharing with them stories of kids from all over the country. In those meetings, we have been able to help them better understand the needs of children like ours and how proposed legislation would affect them.

For more information, please visit our website (www.littlelobbyists.org), follow us on Twitter (@LittleLobbyists), on Facebook, and/or reach out via email (contact@littlelobbyists.org).