Legal Assistance Corp. of Central Massachusetts
405 Main Street, 4th Floor
Worcester, MA 01608
Contact
Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham, Esq.
Healthcare Partner Institutions
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Community Health Connections FHC (Fitchburg)
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Family Health Center (Worcester)
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Tri-River Family Health Center (Uxbridge)
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UMass Memorial Medical Center (Worcester)
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UMass Memorial Medical Center (Worcester) (Residency Program)
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UMass Memorial Medical Center (Worcester) (Residency Program)
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University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester)
Legal Partner Institutions
- Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts (Worcester)
Partnership News
Monday, August 3, 2009
Dr. David Keller and Dr. Shale Wong have been selected as two of ten Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows for 2009–2010. Fellows utilize their wide range of academic, public health, clinical and community-based experience to provide health policy leadership on Capitol Hill to improve health and health care during a 12-month fellowship in Washington, D.C.
Monday, June 1, 2009
David M. Keller, M.D., FAAP, credits the [Healthy Tomorrows] grant with giving his program — Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts — stability during its early years. The program links pediatric practices affiliated with the University of Massachusetts medical school and attorneys to help patients and their families deal with legal matters. Issues include helping needy families obtain food stamps, domestic violence, special education
concerns and making sure landlords keep apartments mold-free.
Partnership Resources
February 17, 2009 - 11:07pm (Updated: February 17, 2009 - 11:08pm)
Article on the medical-legal advocacy screening questionnaire (MASQ) developed and studied by the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, MA.
Development of a Brief Questionnaire to Identify Families in Need of Legal Advocacy to Improve Child Health. Ambulatory Pediatrics 2008; 8:266–269. David Keller, MD; Nathan Jones, MD; Judith A. Savageau, MPH; Suzanne B. Cashman, ScD
February 26, 2009 - 3:13pm
Advocacy Code Card developed by the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, MA as a resource for medical providers.
February 26, 2009 - 3:58pm
Doctors, Patients and Schools: How to be a Useful Advocate
Presentation developed by the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, MA to train providers how to be useful advocates for their patients' education issues.
February 26, 2009 - 3:28pm
Presentation developed by the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts to train healthcare providers how to advocate for their patients on education related issues.
February 26, 2009 - 3:38pm (Updated: July 16, 2010 - 1:34pm)
A series of sample letters for physicians to use when advocating on behalf of their educational needs. These letters were developed by the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, MA and are meant to accompany the training "Prescription Pads for Education Problems" which can also be found in the resource library.
February 26, 2009 - 3:52pm
Health and Housing: What MDs should know...
Presentation developed by the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, MA to train providers to recognize the connections between health and housing.
February 26, 2009 - 3:59pm
Immigration 101 for Medical Providers
Presentation developed by the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, MA to train providers to recognize the connections between health and immigration.
February 17, 2009 - 11:03pm
A questionnaire developed as a screening tool to identify families who might benefit from the services of a medical-legal partnership. This questionnaire can also be used in formative evaluation, providing a means for quickly assessing the legal needs present in a particular setting (community or medical clinic) in which the creation of a new medical-legal partnership is planned.
It was written and validated by David Keller and Nathan Jones of the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts (FACM). Please acknowledge the authors if you choose to use this instrument.
February 26, 2009 - 3:08pm
A Spanish language questionnaire developed as a screening tool to identify families who might benefit from the services of a medical-legal partnership. This questionnaire can also be used in formative evaluation, providing a means for quickly assessing the legal needs present in a particular setting (community or medical clinic) in which the creation of a new medical-legal partnership is planned.
It was written and validated by David Keller and Nathan Jones of the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts (FACM). Please acknowledge the authors if you choose to use this instrument.
February 26, 2009 - 4:02pm
A medical-legal partnership overview training developed by the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, MA.
February 26, 2009 - 3:20pm (Updated: February 26, 2009 - 3:21pm)
Poster created by the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts about their medical-legal partnership.
April 14, 2010 - 12:37pm (Updated: April 14, 2010 - 12:45pm)
A core component of the MLP model is training healthcare providers to recognize the connections between unmet legal needs and health. In this webinar, a physician-lawyer team from the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts provide an overview of how to train healthcare providers in immigration advocacy. A 30 minute presentation is followed by a question and answer session.
Presenters: Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham, Esq., Director of Training and Professional Development, Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts
David Keller, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School
