Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Partnering across sectors requires learning to describe your mission and work in your partner’s framework and language. In medical-legal partnership, this means re-framing civil legal needs as social determinants of health and describing the benefits of civil legal aid in health and health care terms. This messaging guide is intended to help civil legal aid practitioners message their work to health care audiences....Read More
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
This chart outlines some of the most common social problems faced by vulnerable communities, and how legal expertise and services can help mitigate their negative impact on health and health care. It can be used as a training tool and also to help communicate the value of an MLP. ...Read More
Friday, January 9, 2015
Three articles in the National Association of Community Health Center magazine trace the origins of medical-legal partnership and feature interviews with health center CEOs about why they embrace legal services at their clinics....Read More
Monday, October 27, 2014
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, modified its funding eligibility rules to allow health centers to use federal “enabling services” funds to pay for on-site civil legal aid to help meet the primary care needs of the population and communities they serve....Read More
