As part of its work with the Bob Woodruff Foundation, the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership is producing a series of issue briefs that looks at different ways legal services help meet the health and health care needs of Veterans, and different ways medical-legal partnerships can integrate with Veteran care teams.
Leveraging legal services on the Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (H-PACT)
By National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
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April 2020
The Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (H-PACT) is a medical home treatment model being implemented at over 50 VA medical centers (VAMCs) nationwide. The goal of the H-PACT model is to provide the collaborative care necessary to tackle the physical, mental, and social determinants of health which can lead to homelessness. Currently, one-quarter (25.9 percent) of VA health care systems that have an H-PACT, also have an on-site VA medical-legal partnership. This brief highlights the potential for partnership between the legal community and H-PACTs at VAMCs, and profiles MLPs that are successfully tackling the unmet legal needs of Veterans experiencing and at-risk of homelessness through this approach.
Veterans face mounting legal needs amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
By National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
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July 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating Veterans’ economic, social, and mental health needs. Legal assistance is needed more than ever to help address increased unemployment and housing challenges. This issue brief describes how the pandemic is affecting Veterans’ social and legal needs, and details how five VA-based medical-legal partnerships are responding.