Wednesday, June 10, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased rates of unemployment. As a result, more and more people are facing housing evictions and foreclosures that threaten their health and well-being, and this trend will continue in the coming months. This tip sheet outlines three ways health care providers and staff can work with legal aid attorneys to help patients facing possible evictions and foreclosures while also working to strengthen long-term housing protections....Read More
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Our nation’s farmworkers endure unsafe living and working conditions. Yet they are often reluctant to seek out help due to fear of employer retaliation, lack of health insurance, or documentation status. This resource provides recommendations and resources to help migrant health and legal services organizations develop medical-legal partnerships to support farmworkers....Read More
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
This is a sample Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) created by Pine Street Legal Assistance, Inc. and the Department of Veterans Affairs Maine Healthcare System outlining their medical-legal partnership for Veterans....Read More
Thursday, April 30, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing protocols have forced legal aid offices and medical-legal partnerships to deliver legal services remotely. This town hall featured teams from Los Angeles, Montana, and Alaska who have experience delivering remote medical-legal partnership services in urban, rural, and frontier settings. Panelists addressed a number of the challenges presented by telelegal work, including collaborating with partners at a distance, meeting with patient-clients remotely, communicating with patient-clients who have limited access to technology, dealing with court and agency closures, signing and notarizing documents electronically, and planning for the medium- and long-term legal consequences of the pandemic....Read More
