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Share your Medicaid and/or SNAP story

In 2025, Congress passed and President Trump signed legislation that includes new and expanded work reporting requirements and other federal funding cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, two lifeline programs for people in recovery and reentry. These programs ensure access to health care, including substance use disorder treatment and mental health services, and basic needs like food assistance, which are essential supports for long-term recovery and successful reentry post-incarceration.

As states across the country work to implement this new law and various policy changes go into effect, it's crucial for policymakers to understand the human impact of these changes. We invite you to share how changes to Medicaid and/or SNAP are impacting you or someone you know. Your stories are crucial in fueling our ongoing advocacy efforts to minimize the harm of this new law.
1.Name: (Feel free to share only your first name or initials)
2.City, State of Residence
3.Which of the following describes you: (please check all that apply)
4.How have recent changes to Medicaid and/or SNAP impacted you? (please check all that apply)
5.In your own words, please share your story about how changes to Medicaid and/or SNAP have impacted you.
6.Are you willing to share your story publicly?
If so, we may use it in our advocacy efforts to protect Medicaid coverage, including posting it on our website, sharing it with policymakers, or featuring it on social media.
7.If you choose to share your story publicly, how would you like your name to appear?
8.Contact information for internal use only (email address or phone number):
9.If you're comfortable, please upload a photo by clicking the box below that we can use alongside your story in our advocacy. Your photo does not need to show your face – it could be a silhouette, a faraway shot, a view from behind, a photo focused on a related scene, or a photo where your face is otherwise obscured if you prefer. Feel free to also send a 1-2 minute audio clip of you or a loved one sharing your experience to vaseverino@lac.org.

Note: After submission, we will follow up to obtain a signed media release for each person in the photo.

You can review our policy on publishing personal stories and images [here].
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