New England Regional Medical-Legal Network (NERMLN)

Participating Medical-Legal Partnerships

• Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston (Boston, MA)
• Medical-Legal Partnership Project (Hartford, CT)
• Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts (Worcester, MA)
• Rhode Island Medical-Legal Partnership for Children (Providence, RI)
• KIDS LEGAL Medical Partnership (Portland, ME)
• New Hampshire Health Law Collaborative (Manchester, NH)

The New England Regional Medical-Legal Network (NERMLN) formed in 2005.
 

Projects

From 2005-2008, with funding from the Jesse B. Cox Charitable Trust, NERMLN worked to:

• Identify common challenges in establishing and sustaining medical-legal partnerships
• Share best practices (i.e. strategies for overcoming those challenges) with each other and with other programs around the country
• Fill the gaps where best practices did not seem to yet exist.

The product was a white paper series -- The Medical-Legal Partnership:  Best Practices & Strategies for Capacity-Building, Evaluation and Sustainability.

NERMLN also designed and piloted a client questionnaire aimed at exploring the connection between legal assistance and the health status of clients while examining the feasibility of conducting data collection in the various settings represented by (and with the varying levels of resources of) each of the NERMLN programs.