Health Center MLP Planning, Implementation & Practice (PIP) Webinar Series | February – June 2024

By National Center for Medical Legal Partnership

Youtube Playlist

Overview

As part of its work with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the National Center  for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) is partnering with the Texas A&M University Institute for Healthcare Access (HAI) to offer a webinar series to support health center based MLP planning, implementation, and practice (PIP Webinar Series). The Health Center MLP Toolkit will serve as a resource for participants throughout the series. 

For each webinar in the PIP series, NCMLP will seek input or examples from a health center and/or PCA with experience in the specific domain or topic to provide insight and commentary and respond to audience questions. 

The series will address the following T/TA needs:

1. Understanding the core components of medical-legal partnerships;

2. Identifying and engaging a legal partner;

3. Using medical-legal partnerships to affect policy changes that benefit patients and communities;

4. Sharing evidence-based or promising practices for developing workflows for medical-legal partnership referrals, sharing information, and integration; and

5. Implementing screening for legal needs that aligns with a social determinants of health screen

Faculty

  • Bethany Hamilton, JD, Co-Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
  • Keegan Warren, JD, LLM, Executive Director, Institute for Healthcare Access, Texas A&M University Health Science Center
  • Jay Sicklick, JD, UCONN, Adjunct Professor of Law, Former MLP Director, Connecticut Pediatric MLP

Guest Speakers

  • Georgia Legal Services Program
    • Tara McIntosh, MLP Attorney in Macon, Georgia at Atrium Health Medical Center-Hospital based MLP
    • Racheal Henderson, Specialist Attorney, Founding/Creator, McKinney Health Center MLP, Waycross , Georgia
    • Malik Hines, Staff Attorney, McKinney Health Center MLP, Waycross, Georgia
    • Ira Foster, Founder/Creator of Atrium Health Center MLP, Macon, Georgia, Co-Founder along with Racheal Henderson of McKinney Health Center MLP, Waycross, Georgia
  • Julie Brandfield, Associate Director, LegalHealth, New York Legal Assistance Group
  • Emily Foote, Senior Director, Social Determinants of Health, NYC Health + Hospitals
  • Kate Marple, Principal Consultant , Who Tell the Story?

Webinar Series Topics

Part 1: 9 Conversations that Will Help Lay a Strong Foundation

  • What SDOH problems do we want to address?  (February 1, 2024)

Slides | Recording

Explore how to assess community and partner needs for health center-based MLPs.

  • What staff do we need to meet the need(s) we identified and accomplish our goals? (February 15, 2024)

          Slides | Recording

Learn how to develop a comprehensive MLP staffing plan to improve your health care delivery model. 

  • Staffing the Legal Services of an MLP – Should We Directly Hire a Lawyer or Contract with Another Organization? (March 14, 2024)

          Slides | Recording

Explore various approaches to staffing the legal services of an MLP, such as building it as a direct service, contracting with a community-based legal services organization, or using a hybrid of the two models.

  • How are we going to pay for it? Developing a Budget and Identifying Funding for my Health Center’s Medical-Legal Partnership (March 28, 2024) 

Slides | Recording

To learn how to develop a comprehensive budget and identify sources of funding an MLP.

  • How to Develop a Strong Memorandum of Agreement for a Medical-Legal Partnership (April 18, 2024)

          Slides | Recording

A guide to the development and maintenance of effective memorandum of agreements for Health Center MLPs.

  • Exploring Health Center vs. Hospital-Based MLPs – Insights from Georgia Legal Services Program

May 23, 2024 | 1 – 2.30 PM ET | Register

 Explore the intricacies of Health Center and Hospital-based MLP models, featuring insights from the Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP).

  • MLPs in EMR, the Next Frontier: One System’s Success

          May 30, 2024 | 1 – 2.30 PM ET | Register

Successful integration of legal services into workflows and systems, focusing on an Epic integration within a large MLP framework

  • Ditch the Pitch: Building Effective Messaging for Different Medical-Legal Partnership Audiences

          June 13, 2024 | 1 – 2.30 PM ET | Register

Learn how to unpack different health center MLP audiences and effectively communicate the benefits of MLP to each in ways that will matter to them.

Part 2: Implementing Workflows for Screening and Legal Services &  Strengthening the Health Center Workforce

  • Crafting Effective Trainings to Strengthen the Health Center MLP Workforce

           June 6, 2024 | 1 – 2.30 PM ET | Register

Learn the types of trainings that should be a regular part of a health center’s MLP practice, how to build effective MLP trainings for different audiences, and adult learning strategies.

Part 3: Moving Upstream from Patients-to-Policy

  • Moving Upstream to Address and Prevent Community and Family Violence

TBD