Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Webinar: New Medical-Legal Partnership Practices and Strategies in Agricultural Worker Communities

This webinar covers best practices and strategies for employing the MLP model to serve agricultural worker communities....Read More

Friday, November 20, 2020

Health Center Toolkit Webinar Series Part 1: SDOH Needs and Legal Staffing

This webinar unpacks how to identify which of patients' social determinants of health (SDOH) needs are legal needs, and how to determine the type and volume of legal staffing needed at health centers....Read More

Monday, October 26, 2020

Tool: Types of trainings that help meet patients’ needs and strengthen the health care and legal workforces

Training is one way that medical-legal partnerships strengthen the skills and knowledge of both the health care and legal workforces to better meet the social needs of patients. Medical-legal partnerships typically train three groups: the health care workforce, MLP lawyers and paralegals, and patients. This tool recommends steps every MLP team can take to plan for their trainings. It also suggest content, forums, and training tips for each audience. It can be used by MLP teams to plan for and develop their own training modules....Read More

Friday, October 23, 2020

Planning tool: How many lawyers do we need to meet the legal need(s) of our patients?

This tool describes the factors that impact an MLP lawyer's capacity and the types of activities--such as training, curbside consults, and legal representation of patients--that MLP lawyers engage in and the approximate time involved in each. It also offers three models estimating what one MLP lawyer could handle in a year based on the organization's priorities....Read More