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NCMLP provided a training webinar to update the field on how health centers and MLP staff can continue to collaborate to better understand and address the evolving needs of patients experiencing Long-COVID. This webinar helped the health center and civil legal services staff to bridge the current research on Long-COVID to the clinical/legal interventions. Subject… Read more »…Read More

Health centers served more than 30 million patients in 2021, including HRSA-defined special populations (i.e., migratory and seasonal agricultural workers, homeless individuals, and residents of public housing). The medical-legal partnership (MLP) approach is essential to successful collaborations between health centers and civil legal services providers aiming to understand and address the health-harming social and legal… Read more »…Read More

The history of medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) includes work at the start of America’s HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, when healthcare institutions began to work closely with civil legal aid agencies to help patients living with and impacted by HIV meet end-of-life needs. Almost 40 years later, MLPs are continuing to help individuals living with HIV… Read more »…Read More

Partnerships between health centers, the VA, and civil legal services providers help to ensure that Veterans can access health care through “no wrong door.” To improve the capacity of these partnerships to meet the holistic needs of Veterans, medical-legal partnership staff of all backgrounds and skill sets are invited to this free training event on… Read more »…Read More