Learning Opportunities

We host a range of free webinars and learning collaboratives to help health organizations incorporate legal expertise and services into their approach to addressing health-related social needs, and to help legal organizations align their service delivery with health partners.

Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Upcoming Webinars:

Webinar Series – Improving Patient Care and Outcomes:
This three-part webinar series will guide health centers through the essential steps of establishing, integrating, and leveraging a medical-legal partnership (MLP) to enhance patient outcomes and advance performance improvement goals.
  • Linking Your Community-Based Partnerships to Improvements in Patient Care and Outcomes – March 19, 2026 | Register Now

This final part of the webinar series (Webinar 3) will focus on understanding and assessing how an medical-legal partnership (MLP) has contributed to a health center’s performance improvement in the areas of patient care and outcomes. The webinar will highlight how MLPs can contribute to health center performance improvement by aligning with key metrics such as Uniform Data System (UDS) measures, quality improvement benchmarks, and value-based care initiatives. Participants will receive information about tools and strategies for demonstrating the return on investment (ROI) of an MLP, making a strong case for long-term funding and sustainability.

Our Facilitator: Ellen Lawton, JD, Consultant, NCMLP, EL Consulting.

Our Speakers: 

– Omar Martinez, JD, MPH, MS, Professor, University of Central Florida College of Medicine

– Sheridan Green, PhD, MS, Associate Investigator, Director, PiER Center, Kaiser Permanente Colorado

Webinar Series – Understanding and Addressing the Childhood Chronic Disease Crisis:
Prevention and Action in Primary Care Practice

  • A Performance Improvement Approach to Childhood Chronic Diseases Beyond the Exam Room – March 11, 2026 | Register Now

Register for the Connected Communities Health Initiative (CCHI) webinar series on “Understanding and Addressing the Childhood Chronic Disease Crisis: Prevention and Action in Primary Care Practice.” In this session, the audience will venture “beyond the exam room” to explore essential performance improvement concepts, strengthen understanding of the root causes of childhood illness, and introduce practical activities such as needs assessments and community referral pathway development.

Our Facilitator: Michael T. Edwards, Director of Training and Quality, Mississippi Health Safe Net.

This webinar offers CME/CEU credits to participants.