Friday, October 23, 2020
This infographic explains the difference between "social determinants of health," "social needs," and "legal needs." It also demonstrates how different team members--community health workers, case managers / social workers, and lawyers--each help address patients' social needs in different ways and where medical-legal partnership fits within a health care organization's larger response to social determinants of health (SDOH)....Read More
Friday, October 23, 2020
This graphic depicts a typical workflow for screening, legal services, follow-up, and continuous quality improvement activities at a medical-legal partnership (MLP). It can be used by health care and legal partners to plan for and improve their own MLP workflows....Read More
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
This document describes the need for legal services among Veterans and concrete ways that a VA Transition Care Management (TCM) Program can connect Veterans to legal assistance....Read More
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
This toolkit provides the health center community with information and resources to start, strengthen, and sustain a medical-legal partnership (MLP). The toolkit can be used both by health centers new to MLP who want help with the initial planning process and by health centers that are already actively providing legal services, but want help facilitating continuous quality improvement conversations to address issues like low/high referral volumes or funding instability....Read More
