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
Webinar Series Topics
Part 1: 9 Conversations that Will Help Lay a Strong Foundation
- What SDOH problems do we want to address? (February 1, 2024)
Explore how to assess community and partner needs for health center-based MLPs.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What other partners in the community can be helpful?
TBD
- How will we address patient consents and information sharing?
TBD
- Integrating legal services into the workflows and systems
TBD
- How can we make sure our MLP is effective and sustainable?
June 6, 2024 | 1 – 2.30 PM ET | Registration coming soon
Part 2: Implementing Workflows for Screening and Legal Services & Strengthening the Health Center Workforce
- MLP Trainings to Strengthen the Health Center Workforce
June 13, 2024 | 1 – 2.30 PM ET | Registration coming soon
Part 3: Moving Upstream from Patients-to-Policy
- Moving Upstream to Address and Prevent Community and Family Violence
TBD