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NC Health News, 9/26/19, Raising and Speaking out for Medically Fragile Kids  https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2019/09/26/raising-and-speaking-out-for-medically-fragile-kids/

The Courier-Tribune (Asheboro), Remember children with medical needs, animals in Harvey’s wake, 9/1/17  https://tinyurl.com/yc2aelum

Winston-Salem Journal, Winston-Salem stepping up to help those in need in Texas, 8/30/17  https://tinyurl.com/ya6kefzs

Patriot, Not Partisan, Ordinary people doing extraordinary things: How I became an advocate, 8/15/17 (blog post by Natalie Weaver)  https://tinyurl.com/ycbhcmhk

Huffington Post, Observations from Below: Where everybody knows your name, 7/31/17  https://tinyurl.com/y7ojczeh

Advocates for Medically Fragile Kids NC awarded Disability Rights NC’s 2017 Champion for Equality and Justice Award, 7/28/17  https://tinyurl.com/y6uszppb

The Times-News (Burlington), 6/18/17, Medicaid a highly personal issue (column by Eric Hart)  https://tinyurl.com/y8c925lm

Georgetown Univ. Health Policy Institute, Parents of Medically Fragile Children Take Stand Against Medicaid Cuts, 7/13/17  https://tinyurl.com/yc72vxsv

WBTV (Charlotte), 5/13/16, Mother fighting back after state threatens to cut assistance for medically fragile children  http://tinyurl.com/zmuy9tm

NC Health News, 8/17/16, Families with medically fragile children face new waitlist for Medicaid services  http://tinyurl.com/gnd54c2

The News & Observer (Raleigh), 8/15/16, NC puts ‘medically fragile’ children on wait list for special Medicaid program  http://tinyurl.com/zpnbrcn

NC Health News, 7/28/16, Parents of disabled kids weigh in on proposed Medicaid changes  http://tinyurl.com/hrt6w17

WRAL (Raleigh), 7/26/16, Parents fight against plan to cut services for children with special needs  http://tinyurl.com/haag271

NC Child blog, June 2016, When government listens to the people  http://tinyurl.com/h68hscb

ABC11 (Raleigh), 5/30/16, Families of medically fragile children afraid state changes could leave their kids without care  http://tinyurl.com/j7wco9s

WRAL (Raleigh), 5/27/16, DHHS halts changes to program for children with special needs http://tinyurl.com/h5rv8wj

WXII 12 (Winston-Salem), 5/24/16, Families fight proposed cuts to disabled kids  http://tinyurl.com/zrzao9p

WRAL (Raleigh), 5/20/16, Families pan proposed DHHS changes to program for special needs children  http://tinyurl.com/jm5qx7k

WLOS (Asheville), 5/19/16, Proposed cuts to program aiding NC’s most medically fragile kids  http://tinyurl.com/z5y3svd

The Chronicle (Winston-Salem), 3/30/17, Advocates: Failed GOP health-care plan bad for children  https://tinyurl.com/mk78fqd

NC Health News, 3/23/17, Disabled kids’ parents watch D.C. warily  https://tinyurl.com/y9ot83cq

MomsRising blog, Moms are speaking out for healthcare! Natalie from North Carolina, 5/11/17  https://tinyurl.com/y9cynpx9

NC Health News, 6/28/17, Disability advocates see existential threat from senate health bill  https://tinyurl.com/y86zy2gs

The Guardian, 6/25/17, ‘They’re sentencing me to death’: Medicaid recipients on the Republican healthcare plan  https://tinyurl.com/y9y7t476

The Charlotte Observer, 5/31/17, With Medicaid cuts looming, NC mom takes fight for medically fragile daughter to DC  https://tinyurl.com/y9l5m967

NC Child blog, #IamMedicaidNC – Natalie and Sophia’s Story, June 2017  https://tinyurl.com/yao2aj59

NC Peds News (NC Pediatric Society), April 2017, Community Alternatives for Children Update (article by Jenny Hobbs on page 2)  https://tinyurl.com/y8379b27