Monday, October 14, 2019
Tool: Medical-legal partnership logic model
This logic model represents how MLP processes and activities affect learners, patients, and the health system in the short, medium, and long term....Read More
Monday, October 14, 2019
Brief: Legal Partnering for Child and Family Health
This brief focuses on the important role that legal interventions can play in accelerating access to concrete supports in times of need for families with young children. It calls upon early childhood systems to robustly integrate legal partnering into its concrete support “toolbox”—so that all families “know their rights” and more families can pursue those legal rights if they wish....Read More
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Article: County Health Rankings’ profile of medical-legal partnership
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
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Article: In pilot study, parents reported reduced stress after MLP services
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