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Understanding the Current Social Needs of Health Center Patients (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NCMLP kicked off its annual Health Center Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) Webinar Series on September 20, 2022. This webinar series, based on the Health Center Toolkit, is designed to provide T/TA for the health center field on the core components of MLP and the advanced application of medical-legal partnership planning, implementation and growth. After almost two and a half years of adjusting services and operations to meet the evolving needs of low-income populations during the ongoing public health emergency, panelists and attendees strengthened their foundational knowledge and understanding of the data on current and emerging social needs for health center patient populations. Attendees heard from the following subject matter experts: • Brad Corallo, KFF • Rosy Weir, AAPCHO • Albert Ayson, Jr., AAPCHO More Details...

Understanding the Current Social Needs of Health Center Patients (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NCMLP kicked off its annual Health Center Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) Webinar Series on September 20, 2022. This webinar series, based on the Health Center Toolkit, is designed to provide T/TA for the health center field on the core components of MLP and the advanced application of medical-legal partnership planning, implementation and growth. More Details...

Increasing Capacity to Address Health, Justice, & Equity Through Partnerships (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Given their disproportionate share of patients or clients who are survivors, this guide provides select tools and resources for the following key partners and allies: HEALTH CENTERS | To promote collaboration with DV programs and civil legal aid organizations, and help establish medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) DV PROGRAMS | To promote collaboration with HCs/civil legal programs CIVIL LEGAL AID ORGANIZATIONS | To promote collaboration with HCs/DV programs/establish MLPs ESTABLISHED MLPS | To promote DV/HT/E as issues they can address, intersectional with other I-HELP areas of work More Details...

Webinar: Closing the Loop on the Referral (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this HRSA-supported webinar, Siouxland Community Health Center discussed how they joined forces with an HCCN and their civil legal services MLP colleagues to “close the loop on the referral.” The team shared best practices to help other health centers advance their MLP practice beyond screenings and referrals. View the webinar recording to learn how to conduct real-time tracking and analysis of legal needs interventions in the EHR. More Details...

Connecting Community Health Centers & Courts to Improve Behavioral Health of People & Communities (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: As an exploration of the intersection of health and justice, Connecting Community Health Centers & Courts to Improve Behavioral Health of People & Communities offers nine major recommendations for health centers and courts to better support the behavioral health of justice-involved people. This brief proposes ways in which these organizations can collaborate and ultimately foster the next phase of the medical-legal partnership movement: bringing the health provider into the legal context and expanding the pool of potential legal services providers. More Details...

Tips to Help Health Centers Address Disability & Chronic Disease Discrimination (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This tip sheet provides advice as well as key resources to help staff of health centers and look-alike programs quickly improve their understanding of the important role they can play in helping to identify discrimination at its earliest stages and how to mitigate it by leveraging their own medical authority and resources within the community. More Details...

Using Legal Services as Part of a Community Strategy to Improve Maternal and Child Health | 2022 Learning Collaborative (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In Using Legal Services as Part of a Community Strategy to Improve Maternal and Child Health participants from health center and civil legal service providers developed and improved strategies to integrate legal services as part of the clinical practice to address the social and legal needs of maternal and child patients. In this four-part course, participants were asked to consider specific aspects of establishing MLPs and were be given access to resources designed to increase learning about the impact of unmet legal needs on maternal and child health. The collaborative brought together legal service providers and health centers to learn from each other and faculty advisors ​​representing the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance and the Center for Children’s Advocacy/Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital partnership. More Details...

The Unique Role of Medical-Legal Partnerships in Helping Health Centers Address Disability & Chronic Disease Discrimination | Webinar Series (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP), in collaboration with Health Outreach Partners (HOP), offered four 90-minute webinars designed to help health centers address and redress discrimination against people living with disabilities or chronic disease. Given the prevalence of chronic diseases like diabetes, asthma, HIV/AIDS, depression, heart disease, and others, many health center patients face discrimination at work or school, when accessing services or public places, or otherwise navigating daily life because of these conditions. While different groups of people have unique experiences with this discrimination—for example, migrant and seasonal agricultural workers and individuals with immigration status—health center patients facing disability discrimination may have limited access to quality, informed legal services. Health centers play a key role in identifying discrimination at its earliest stages and will learn how to mitigate it by leveraging their own medical authority and resources within the community. This series explored: Disability Discrimination 101: Understanding the Legal Protections, Common Barriers, and the Role of Health Centers in Ending Discrimination (April 27, 2022) – Download the Slides Disability and Chronic Disease Discrimination with Kids: Navigating the Health Center’s Role in Securing Legal Protections for Pediatric Patient (May 11, 2022) – Download the Slides The New Kid on the Disability Block: COVID-19 and Emerging Issues (May 25, 2022) – Download the Slides Building a Disability/Chronic Disease MLP (June 8, 2022) – Download the Slides More Details...

Collaborating to Address the Health and Legal Needs of Patients Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence and Exploitation: Learning Collaborative Series (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In May, we collaborated with Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation to host a four-part learning collaborative on partnering to address the health and legal needs of patients and clients experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) and exploitation. The learning collaborative featured several partnership models and promising practices to develop, sustain, and grow partnerships between health care professionals and legal services providers. Speakers from Colorado Legal Services, Alaska Legal Services, Asian Health Services, and the Indiana LAVA project each shared how partnerships between providers and legal services partners have improved outcomes for survivors and increased access to services. The series also addressed creating MOUs between civil legal service programs, health centers, and domestic violence programs. Attention was also given to tools to utilize “CUES”, a universal education approach that allows providers to reach more patients as a form of both prevention and intervention. Learning Objectives: In this learning collaborative series, participants learned to: Identify strategies to build partnerships between civil legal services providers and community health centers to address the health and legal needs of survivors of IPV and exploitation. Describe strategies for sustaining and growing collaborative health justice responses to preventing and addressing IPV. Describe 3 tools that can help community health centers and civil legal services formalize partnerships and develop protocols for responding to domestic violence and building prevention strategies. More Details...

MLP in Health Centers Guide Webinar Series Part 4: The Medical-Public Defender Partnership (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Since its founding in the early 1990s, the MLP approach has evolved to incorporate criminal legal in addition to civil legal needs. One of the first MLPs focused on criminal legal needs emerged in Rhode Island, where health centers have partnered with the Rhode Island Public Defender’s Office to collaborate around preserving their shared clients’/patients’ health. On June 23, attendees heard from MLP practitioners in Rhode Island discuss a unique medical-public defender partnership. Participants learned the following: 1. The impact of criminal legal involvement on health and well-being 2. The history and evolution of the medical-legal partnership 3. Rhode Island’s approach to bringing together health centers and public defenders to support mutual patient-clients 4. Best practices that empower health centers to advocate for patients with criminal legal involvement The webinar featured the following panelists: James Lawless, Social Services Department Chief, Rhode Island Public Defender Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University Anthony Thigpen, Community Health Worker, Lifespan’s Transition Clinic Rahul Vanjani, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brown Medicine More Details...

Advancing MLP in Health Centers Learning Collaborative Part 3 (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In part three of this session, this learning collaborative allowed health centers and civil legal services staff to connect with peers at different levels of medical-legal partnership (MLP). The provided strategies for implementation and support by addressing the health-harming legal needs of special populations. More Details...

Advancing MLP in Health Centers Learning Collaborative Part 2 (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In part two of this learning collaborative, health centers and civil legal services staff connected with peers at different levels of medical-legal partnership (MLP) implementation for support with addressing the health-harming legal needs of special populations. More Details...

Advancing MLP in Health Centers Learning Collaborative Part 1 (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this session, participants heard from Bethany Hamilton, Co-Director at the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership on how to identify specific social determinants of health problems that need to be addressed, on different ways to integrate legal services in the health care system as well as determining funding sources. Bethany also explained how MLPs can foster continuous learning and improvement for building a stable, committed, and skilled workforce that meets the needs of the population they serve.  More Details...

The SDOH Academy Innovations Showcase Competition: Closing Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The SDOH Academy Innovations Showcase Competition is an interactive training opportunity that incorporates an element of competition for health centers to showcase their innovations. A unique opportunity for health center staff and stakeholders to not only shape the narrative about their innovative work to address the SDOHs but also a way to inform a national audience on how they have been successful in addressing any of the following core competencies. More Details...

MLP in Health Centers (Session 1): A deep dive on laying the foundation & funding the model (2022). Resource Type: In-Person Training. Description: The first session of the webinar series featured Ann C. Mangiameli (Managing Attorney at Legal Aid of Nebraska) and Brad L. Meyer (CMPE, CEO of Bluestem Health) as panelists. They spoke from their experience to help health center and MLP staff better understand how to develop and implement their MLP models and explore effective methods for funding. More Details...

National Audience Webinar and Launch of SDOH Innovations Showcase Competition (Part I) (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: During the keynote, Dr. Hasshan Batts shared how his personal journey has informed community-based efforts to improve the health and well-being of structurally marginalized people in Allentown, PA. Dr. Batts is currently the Executive Director of the Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley where he uses the concept of “Radical Welcome” to engage with individuals that are often excluded from community efforts. Dr. Batts also shared how PNLV is currently leading an innovative community engagement project in partnership with a community health center, health system, university, and community partners. During this session, the innovation competition activity and requirements were shared with attendees. More Details...

Addressing Financial & Legal Problems To Improve the Mental Health of Adults & Children During the Pandemic (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The COVID-19 pandemic’s compounding effects of job loss, isolation, dismantled support systems, grief, and disruptions in care, all resulted in significant financial strain and legal problems that impacted the mental health and well-being of adults and children. In this webinar, subject matter experts in social determinants of health and medical-legal partnership interventions discussed: 1) how financial strains such as high debt, low income and unemployment are associated with suicide attempts and should be considered key factors when assessing mental health interventions; and 2) how legal services delivered alongside social, medical, and behavioral health services can help improve the overall health and well-being of children. The multidisciplinary audience will be prompted to share insights, tools, and COVID-related strategies on how their health centers, legal services organizations, medical-legal partnerships, or other community based organizations have responded to the unique behavioral and mental health needs of adults and children during the pandemic. More Details...

Advancing MLP in Health Centers Learning Collaborative Part 4 (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In part four of this session health centers and civil legal services staff connected with peers at different levels of medical-legal partnership (MLP) implementation for support with addressing the health-harming legal needs of special populations More Details...

Health Center Toolkit Series Part 5: Moving Upstream to Address SDOH and Health Equity at a Policy Level (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership is launching a 5-part Webinar Series to disseminate the Health Center Guide toolkit that provides the health center community with information and resources to start, strengthen, and sustain a medical-legal partnership. The toolkit will help health centers to 1) have the important conversations to plan for a MLP’s long term success; 2) understand the specifics on developing screening, referral, and service delivery workflows for a MLP; 3) to look at how integrating legal services can support health center workforce development; and 4) move upstream to address social determinants of health and health equity at a policy level. More Details...

Collaboration Between Medical-Legal Partnerships, FQHCs, and Domestic Violence Programs to Support Patients (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Through this national webinar, the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) and Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) joined forces to share strategies on how MLPs can successfully partner with FQHCs and community-based domestic violence programs to improve health outcomes, decrease isolation, and support health care for survivors. Presenters highlighted how civil legal service providers partner with FQHCs to address the increased needs of individuals affected by IPV/HT during COVID-19. More Details...