Resources

We publish research, tools, and lessons learned to help healthcare and legal organizations build and operate medical-legal partnerships and to help funders and policymakers advance medical-legal partnership activities. You can search those resources in the library below.

The library also links to journal articles, authored both by National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership staff and MLP practitioners and researchers from the field, that highlight ways medical-legal partnerships have improved patient health and well-being, the healthcare workforce, and healthcare delivery. A list of these articles with summaries are also available on the Peer-Reviewed Research page.

NCMLP 6/15/26 NCMLP 6/15/26

Advancing Patient Health, Wellness, and Satisfaction | Factsheet Series

This series of three (3) fact sheets from NCMLP explores how justiciable events shape individual and community wellness, and how health centers can respond with integrated, evidence-based approaches. Drawing on national research, the series examines how people navigate wellness-related problems — where they seek help, what drives their satisfaction with legal, medical, and mental health services, and how cross-disciplinary collaboration affects both patient and provider outcomes. Together, these resources equip health centers to strengthen community partnerships, improve screening and referral practices, reduce provider burnout, and implement sustainable, wellness-centered strategies that enhance quality, value, and outcomes.

NCMLP 5/29/26 NCMLP 5/29/26

Aligning the I-HELP™ Framework with Healthcare Quality Measurement

This publication offers practical guidance and examples of how health centers can align the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership’s I‑HELP™ framework with healthcare quality measurement, helping teams assess the impact of medical-legal partnerships on patient outcomes and performance improvement.

NCMLP 5/26/26 NCMLP 5/26/26

How Primary Care Associations Can Serve as Champions of Multisector Collaboration

This publication will highlight how primary care associations (PCAs) can play a leading role in the development and implementation of health center-based medical-legal partnerships (MLPs). The spotlight will also help health centers understand how the evidence-based MLP approach can support improvements in care quality and patient outcomes.

NCMLP 4/20/26 NCMLP 4/20/26

Medical-Legal Partnership as Value-Based Primary Care: Interprofessional Teamwork for Health-Related Social Needs

This article published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine describes ways that medical-legal partnership services can reduce hospitalizations and save on health care costs. It details steps to integrate medical-legal partnership activities into value-based healthcare financing streams.

NCMLP 4/7/26 NCMLP 4/7/26

MLP Housing Trainings for Healthcare Teams

As part of regular medical-legal partnership practice, legal team members train healthcare team members’ about specific health-related legal topics to increase and improve referrals to medical-legal partnership legal partners. A series of housing trainings for healthcare providers were created for the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative. While initially created to train KP front-line healthcare staff, these trainings can be easily adapted and used by any MLP.

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How Healthcare and Legal Partners Balance Survival and Innovation

This site profile explores how Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma is strengthening and adapting its medical-legal partnership model as the healthcare and legal landscapes evolve.