Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Toolkit: A planning, implementation, and practice guide for building and sustaining a health center-based MLP

This toolkit provides the health center community with information and resources to start, strengthen, and sustain a medical-legal partnership (MLP). The toolkit can be used both by health centers new to MLP who want help with the initial planning process and by health centers that are already actively providing legal services, but want help facilitating continuous quality improvement conversations to address issues like low/high referral volumes or funding instability....Read More

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Tool: Sample health center memorandum of understanding (MOU) from Florida

This is a sample memorandum of understanding (MOU) created by Grace Medical Home, Inc. and Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Inc. that outlines their medical-legal partnership....Read More

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Digest of COVID-19 resources for medical-legal partnerships

The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating health and economic disparities. As urgent health and legal needs intersect during this crisis, medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) are uniquely positioned to respond. While communities’ needs change and grow every day, MLPs can focus their efforts by pivoting their services to respond to the issue(s) most frequently identified by their health care providers and patient populations, and by reinforcing fundamentals of their MLP practice. This digest contains additional resources to help MLPs respond to the pandemic. ...Read More

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Tip sheet: 3 ways to help patients with evictions & foreclosures during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased rates of unemployment. As a result, more and more people are facing housing evictions and foreclosures that threaten their health and well-being, and this trend will continue in the coming months. This tip sheet outlines three ways health care providers and staff can work with legal aid attorneys to help patients facing possible evictions and foreclosures while also working to strengthen long-term housing protections....Read More