Health Center MLP Planning, Implementation & Practice (PIP) Webinar Series | February – June 2024
Overview
As part of its work with the Health Resources
and Services Administration (HRSA), the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) is partnering with the Texas A&M University Institute for Healthcare Access (HAI) to offer a webinar series to support health center based MLP planning, implementation, and practice (PIP Webinar Series). The Health Center MLP Toolkit will serve as a resource for participants throughout the series.
For each webinar in the PIP series, NCMLP will seek input or examples from a health center and/or PCA with experience in the specific domain or topic to provide insight and commentary and respond to audience questions.
The series will address the following T/TA needs:
1. Understanding the core components of medical-legal partnerships;
2. Identifying and engaging a legal partner;
3. Using medical-legal partnerships to affect policy changes that benefit patients and communities;
4. Sharing evidence-based or promising practices for developing workflows for medical-legal partnership referrals, sharing information, and integration; and
5. Implementing screening for legal needs that aligns with a social determinants of health screen
Faculty
- Bethany Hamilton, JD, Co-Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
- Keegan Warren, JD, LLM, Executive Director, Institute for Healthcare Access, Texas A&M University Health Science Center
- Jay Sicklick, JD, UCONN, Adjunct Professor of Law, Former MLP Director, Connecticut Pediatric MLP
Guest Speakers
- Georgia Legal Services Program
- Tara McIntosh, MLP Attorney in Macon, Georgia at Atrium Health Medical Center-Hospital based MLP
- Racheal Henderson, Specialist Attorney, Founding/Creator, McKinney Health Center MLP, Waycross , Georgia
- Malik Hines, Staff Attorney, McKinney Health Center MLP, Waycross, Georgia
- Ira Foster, Founder/Creator of Atrium Health Center MLP, Macon, Georgia, Co-Founder along with Racheal Henderson of McKinney Health Center MLP, Waycross, Georgia
- Julie Brandfield, Associate Director, LegalHealth, New York Legal Assistance Group
- Emily Foote, Senior Director, Social Determinants of Health, NYC Health + Hospitals
- Kate Marple, Principal Consultant , Who Tell the Story?
- Philadelphia Legal Assistance
- Margaret Robinson, Esq., Supervising Attorney, Medical Legal Community Partnership, Philadelphia Legal Assistance
- James Tiderington, Esq., Supervising Attorney, Medical Legal Community Partnership, Philadelphia Legal Assistance
- Erin Davison, MPH, Founder and Principal Consultant, Davison Strategic Solutions
Webinar Series Topics
Part 1: 9 Conversations that Will Help Lay a Strong Foundation
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What SDOH problems do we want to address? (February 1, 2024)
Slides | Recording
Explore how to assess community and partner needs for health center-based MLPs.
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What staff do we need to meet the need(s) we identified and accomplish our goals? (February 15, 2024)
Learn how to develop a comprehensive MLP staffing plan to improve your health care delivery model.
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Staffing the Legal Services of an MLP – Should We Directly Hire a Lawyer or Contract with Another Organization? (March 14, 2024)
Explore various approaches to staffing the legal services of an MLP, such as building it as a direct service, contracting with a community-based legal services organization, or using a hybrid of the two models.
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How are we going to pay for it? Developing a Budget and Identifying Funding for my Health Center’s Medical-Legal Partnership (March 28, 2024)
To learn how to develop a comprehensive budget and identify sources of funding an MLP.
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How to Develop a Strong Memorandum of Agreement for a Medical-Legal Partnership (April 18, 2024)
A guide to the development and maintenance of effective memorandum of agreements for Health Center MLPs.
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Exploring Health Center vs. Hospital-Based MLPs – Insights from Georgia Legal Services Program (May 23, 2024)
Explore the intricacies of Health Center and Hospital-based MLP models, featuring insights from the Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP).
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MLPs in EMR, the Next Frontier: One System’s Success (May 30, 2024)
Successful integration of legal services into workflows and systems, focusing on an Epic integration within a large MLP framework
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Ditch the Pitch: Building Effective Messaging for Different Medical-Legal Partnership Audiences (June 13, 2024)
Learn how to unpack different health center MLP audiences and effectively communicate the benefits of MLP to each in ways that will matter to them.
Part 2: Implementing Workflows for Screening and Legal Services & Strengthening the Health Center Workforce
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Crafting Effective Trainings to Strengthen the Health Center MLP Workforce (June 6, 2024)
Learn the types of trainings that should be a regular part of a health center’s MLP practice, how to build effective MLP trainings for different audiences, and adult learning strategies.
Part 3: Moving Upstream from Patients-to-Policy
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Moving OUD/SUD Care Upstream through Partnership with Legal Aid (June 20, 2024)
Implementation journey and impact of the medical-legal partnerships between PLA and the healthcare teams at Esperanza Health Center and Delaware Valley Community Health (DVCH) – Girard
Final Session
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MLP Townhall: Interactive Forum on MLP Planning, Implementation, and Practice (June 27, 2024)
This engaging open forum is designed to foster collaborative discussions and knowledge-sharing within the broader MLP community, offering a platform to delve into the intricacies of planning, implementing, and practicing MLP.