Thursday, August 9, 2018
This fact sheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of transgender individuals, and ways integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It examines medical-legal partnership programs at three health care organizations and how they operate, and it shares stories of people benefiting from medical-legal partnership services....Read More
Thursday, August 9, 2018
In 2018, the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program highlighted medical-legal partnership (MLP) as an intervention working to improve health in local communities. The profile reviewed the existing evidence base for MLP services, its impact on disparities and examples of implementation....Read More
Monday, August 6, 2018
This fact sheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of youth, and ways integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It examines medical-legal partnership programs at two school-based health centers and how they operate, and it shares stories of students benefiting from medical-legal partnership services....Read More
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Families living in poverty face many stressors created and maintained by economic hardship and unaddressed legal and social needs. As medical-legal partnerships aim to address and solve unmet legal and social needs, this pilot study at Rutgers examines whether MLP-involved parents perceived themselves as stressed, to what they attributed their stress, and whether they reported a reduction in stress when their legal cases were closed. The study shows that, following a medical-legal partnership intervention, parents had improvements in perceived stress....Read More
