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How are we going to pay for it? Developing a Budget and Identifying Funding for my Health Center’s Medical-Legal Partnership: Health Center MLP Planning, Implementation & Practice (PIP) Webinar Series-Part 1, Conversation 4 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Another installment of the Health Center Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) Planning, Implementation, and Practice (PIP) webinar series, explored the burning question: “How are we going to pay for it?”. It will help participants answer that question by learning how to develop a comprehensive budget and identify sources of funding for their MLP. More Details...

Staffing the Legal Services of an MLP – Should We Directly Hire a Lawyer or Contract with Another Organization?: Health Center MLP Planning, Implementation & Practice (PIP) Webinar Series-Part 1, Conversation 3 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The third part of this webinar series to learn how a health center can seamlessly integrate legal services providers. We have explored various approaches to staffing the legal services of an MLP, such as building it as a direct service, contracting with a community-based legal services organization, or using a hybrid of the two models. More Details...

What SDOH problems do we want to address?: Health Center MLP Planning, Implementation & Practice (PIP) Webinar Series (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: As part of its work with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) is partnering with the Texas A&M University Institute for Healthcare Access (HAI) to offer a webinar series to support health center based MLP planning, implementation, and practice (PIP Webinar Series). This first session explored how to assess community and partner needs for health center-based MLPs. More Details...

Health Center Emergency Preparedness for Survivors of IPV + Exploitation: Multidisciplinary Collaborations to Address Legal Needs: MLP in Action Webinar Series (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar will help the audience increase their understanding of the types of legal issues patients encounter during individual and larger emergencies, become more comfortable and confident with screening patients for legal needs, and feel more equipped to share information on domestic violence resources. Attention will be placed on community-based collaborative models that facilitate coordinated care and better outcomes for survivors and their communities. More Details...

What staff do we need to meet the need(s) we identified and accomplish our goals?: Health Center MLP Planning, Implementation & Practice (PIP) Webinar Series-Part 1, Conversation 2 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this second session of the webinar series, we explored the full range of professionals, from lawyers to community health workers, that contribute to the work of a successful and sustainable MLP. Also learn how to develop a comprehensive MLP staffing plan to improve your health care delivery model. More Details...

MLP in Action: Using MLP to Understand and Address the Health-Harming Effects of Climate Change: Part 3 of MLP in Action Webinar Series (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session of “MLP in Action” aims to enhance audience awareness of the profound impact of climate change on the health of underserved populations. More Details...

Supportive Transition Care for Foster and Former Foster Youth: Medical-Legal Partnership in Action -- Webinar Series (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Explore healthcare and social service access for foster youth. Learn about promising practices for supportive transition care that improves health and social outcomes. More Details...

MLP Spotlight - CrescentCare: An MLP for the Community (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of each Health Center MLP Spotlight is to share information in an accessible and relatable format. Each spotlight is an article featuring a Health Center MLP that exemplifies best practices, innovations, evidence, growth, opportunities, emerging issues, and/or impact on enhancing patient access to care and improving health outcomes through an integrated comprehensive primary care environment. More Details...

Moving from Data Collection to Action: Improving Patient Access to SDOH Resources: The SDOH Academy National Webinar Series (2023-2024) - Part 1 (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is part one of a four-part national webinar series hosted by the SDOH Academy. Learn how you can assist patients with accessing the resources they need to effectively address housing insecurity and other drivers. This session will include best practice examples offered by other health centers and a brainstorming session on establishing effective referral networks and improving patient access to SDOH services. More Details...

Webinar: Leveraging Health Center Medical-Legal Partnerships to Advance Community-Oriented Policing (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) have always been an effective, evidence-based tool for addressing the social determinants of health. How can MLPs advance public safety and community-oriented policing initiatives? In this national webinar supported by HRSA, MLP practitioners and stakeholders from Texas discussed: why community policing matters for health; how their work intersects with public safety approaches; and concrete strategies for engaging in community-oriented policing initiatives that affect the health and well-being of the communities they serve.​ More Details...

Webinar: The Role of MLPs in Harm Reduction Models (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, MLP practitioners from HealthLinc (FQHC) and Indiana Legal Services, Inc. shared strategies to help health centers and MLP staff increase their understanding of current public health approaches to designing and implementing effective harm reduction models. Specifically, participants learned to: • Understand the role of health centers in addressing substance use disorder • Understand how MLPs play a role in addressing substance use disorder • Learn by example: How HealthLinc’s MLPs provides a holistic harm reduction and recovery intervention for their community More Details...

Electronic Exchange of Data and “Closing The Loop” (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Building the electronic exchange of data directly into the EHR is needed to reduce inefficiencies, document patient connection with available legal services, and track patient legal outcomes. This Case Study provides a concrete example of how a medical-legal partnership (MLP) in Iowa set up electronic referrals in the EHR as well as the ability to “Close the Loop” via electronic updates from the legal partner. Those updates are delivered directly to the EHR and describe whether the patient is connected with legal assistance and the legal outcomes of that assistance. More Details...

Using MLP to Address the Legal Needs among Racial & Ethnic Minorities Living with HIV (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, the presenters discussed recent HIV epidemiological data and the current landscape of healthcare and social needs for this patient population. Presenters also shared best practices and examples for health center and MLP staff to improve screening and implementation of legal interventions that are designed to help reduce and prevent racial disparities and health inequities for people living with HIV. More Details...

Advancing MLP in Health Centers Serving Special Populations: Case Studies Covered through an MLP Peer Learning Collaborative (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In 2021, health center MLP practitioners gathered for a four-part learning collaborative designed to help them develop and improve their partnership models to better serve the needs of special populations. This factsheet summarizes the learning goals, case studies, and some of the salient points shared throughout the four sessions. More Details...

“No Wrong Door” for Veterans: Veteran Cultural Competency Training for MLP Teams (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: 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 were invited to this free training event on Veterans cultural competency. Through this webinar, the audience learned about current best practices for serving Veterans across settings and increase their understanding of how to use the medical-legal partnership approach to address the health-harming legal needs of Veterans and their families. Attendees heard from Emily Edwards, PhD (DBT for Justice-Involved Veterans, VISN 2 MIRECC, TASC, James J. Peters VA Medical Center); Lara Eilhardt, JD (Office of General Counsel), and Madolyn Gingell, LCSW (Legal Services for Veterans Program). More Details...

Promising Training Practices to Meet the Needs of Providers & Patients (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar aimed to help health centers who are developing or have an established MLP increase their capacity to build a stable, committed, and skilled workforce that can meet the health-harming legal needs of their patients and communities. More Details...

Developing Screening, Referral, & Service Delivery Workflows for MLPs (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this first webinar of the MLP in health centers toolkit series, we revisited our foundation and learned about the evolving health and social needs of health center patients. This time, we took a deeper dive into how PRAPARE is being used to screen for social needs and risk stratification as well as how to build a screenings/referrals/service delivery workflow specific to MLPs. More Details...

Health Center & Justice System Collaboration to Improve Mental Health (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Recognizing the potential link between HCs and the justice system, Shannon Mace and James Teufel worked with a host of key informants to write the 2022 issue brief Connecting Community Health Centers & Courts to Improve Behavioral Health of People & Communities, which explores the further integration of and partnership between health centers, certified community behavioral health clinics, and courts to improve the continuum of care. Attendees heard from the authors and Patti Tobias (National Center for State Courts) on October 11, 2022 as they discussed their findings and the ways in which Health Centers and Justice Systems can collaborate to improve the mental health of patients and justice-involved individuals. More Details...

Health Center Environmental Scan Kickoff Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Throughout the public health emergency, health centers have adapted and evolved to serve their communities amid a confluence of factors. As such, it is becoming crucially important to understand the different strategies and partnerships that have emerged from this crisis. Health centers have an important and essential role in addressing the health-harming social and legal needs of their patients. The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) is conducting an environmental scan of health centers with the main goal of establishing, expanding, and sustaining the accessibility and availability of medical-legal partnerships to meet the evolving social needs of patient populations. On September 29, NCMLP staff gave an overview of the data we have so far, why it's so important to complete the scan, and how to actually participate. More Details...

Tool: Screening for Disability Discrimination (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: As part of Tips to Help Health Centers Address Disability & Chronic Disease Discrimination, consultant Katie Hathaway created two brand new screening tools to determine if your patient is experiencing discrimination based on a disability or chronic disease. There is one tool for adults and another for children and young adults (including those attending college). More Details...