Wednesday, December 9, 2020
This webinar covers best practices and strategies for employing the MLP model to serve agricultural worker communities....Read More
Friday, August 27, 2021
In this HRSA-supported webinar, Siouxland Community Health Center discussed how they joined forces with an HCCN and their civil legal services MLP colleagues to “close the loop on the referral.” The team shared best practices to help other health centers advance their MLP practice beyond screenings and referrals. View the...Read More
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
The American Academy of Pediatrics passed a resolution “encouraging closer and more frequent collaboration between legal service and medical professionals” and specifically promoted medical-legal partnership as a strategy to improve the health and well-being of children....Read More
Friday, December 1, 2017
This article traces the roots of the medical-legal partnership (MLP) approach to health as a way of promoting the use of law to remedy societal and institutional pathologies that lead to individual and population illness and to health inequalities. Given current forces at work - the medical care and public health systems' foctis on social determinants of health, the increased use of value-based medical care payment reforms, and the emerging movement to train the next generation of health care and public health professionals in structural competency - the time is ripe to spread the view that law is an important lens through which we should view health promotion, disease prevention, and overall well-being....Read More
