Medical-Legal Partnership in Action – Webinar Series

By National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership

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Overview

Join us for an enlightening webinar series dedicated to empowering medical-legal partnership (MLP) professionals. Explore crucial topics in healthcare, legal collaboration, and health equity through engaging discussions with industry experts.

Webinars 

  • Empowering Comprehensive Care: Recruiting and Retaining the Integrated Care Team – October 31, 2023

Slides | Recording

Discover how medical-legal partnerships enhance integrated care teams. Gain insights into MLP fundamentals, fostering an environment where legal expertise seamlessly complements medical care.

Panelists:

  1. Bethany Hamilton, JD, Co-Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
  2. Sarah Everett, JD, Senior Staff Attorney, Indiana Legal Services, Inc.
  3. Sarah Wandler, LICSW, Clinical Support Services Manager, Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, Washington Medical-Legal Partnership

  • Supportive Transition Care for Foster and Former Foster Youth – December 6, 2023

Slides | Recording

Explore healthcare and social service access for foster youth. Learn about promising practices for supportive transition care that improves health and social outcomes.

Panelists: 

  1. Dr. Kimberly Idoko, Director, Healthcare Programs, Alliance for Children’s Rights
  2. Jane Dugan-Burdette, Educational Implementation Specialist, NTI – Center for Adoption Support and Education
  3. Ashley Garcia-Rivera, Policy Advocacy Fellow, NTI – Center for Adoption Support and Education

  • Using MLP to Understand and Address the Health-Harming Effects of Climate Change – January 11, 2024

Slides | Recording

This session of “MLP in Action” aims to enhance audience awareness of the profound impact of climate change on the health of underserved populations. The webinar will feature subject matter experts from Florida providing practical examples and strategies within the MLP framework, such as assisting patients in seeking reasonable accommodations under the ADA, to effectively address and prevent adverse health effects linked to climate change.

Panelists:

  1. Christina Russo Walters, Senior Managing Attorney, Medical-Legal Partnerships, Community Legal Services Mid-Florida
  2. Dr. Frederick Anderson, Medical Director / Associate Professor, Florida International University Mobile Health Center

  • Health Center Emergency Preparedness for Survivors of IPV + Exploitation: Multidisciplinary Collaborations to Address Legal Needs  – January 23, 2024

Slides |Recording

This webinar will help the audience increase their understanding of the types of legal issues patients encounter during individual and larger emergencies, become more comfortable and confident with screening patients for legal needs, and feel more equipped to share information on domestic violence resources. Attention will be placed on community-based collaborative models that facilitate coordinated care and better outcomes for survivors and their communities.

Panelists: 

  1. Kim Randell, MD, MSc, (she/her) Professor of Pediatrics, UMKC School of Medicine
  2. Julie Rattray, Staff Attorney, Medical Legal Community Partnerships, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County

  • Partnering with Legal Services Providers to Enhance Behavioral Healthcare Access and Outcomes – April 10, 2024

        Slides | Recording

This session of the MLP in Action webinar series aims to equip staff from health centers, civil legal services, and behavioral health disciplines with lessons and strategies to enhance behavioral health access and outcomes through the integration of legal services.  Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to offer holistic support to health center patients through MLP interventions.

Panelists: 

  1. Rakuya K. Trice, JD, ILS Deputy Director & Director of Medical- Legal Partnerships, Indiana Legal Services, Inc.
  2. Krista Howard, JD, Project Director-Central Indiana Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP), Indiana Legal Services, Inc.
  3. Kaiden Chorrushi, OBHP, Care Coordinator, Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center—Adult Outpatient Program

  • Advancing Health Equity for Patients Impacted by the Criminal Justice System

          April 30 | 2-3 PM ET | Register

NCMLP’s “MLP in Action” webinar series introduces strategies for enhancing access to care and promoting health equity among specific patient demographics through the Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) framework. Join us on April 30, 2024, from 2-3 pm ET for the final session. Our guest speaker, Daniel Mistak, Director of Health Care Initiatives for Justice-Involved Populations and a 2023 Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity at Community Oriented Correctional Health Services, will discuss opportunities and effective strategies for utilizing MLP to address the unique health and social needs of individuals involved in the criminal justice system.

This installment of the “MLP in Action” webinar series is designed to help the audience:
1. Strengthen their cultural competency to effectively serve diverse populations.
2. Expand their comprehension of how medical-legal partnerships can enhance healthcare delivery models for specific demographic groups.
3. Identify opportunities to implement improved strategies for screening and addressing social risk factors that affect the health of patients involved in the criminal justice system.