Medical-Legal Partnership at Legal Aid of Western Missouri

MLPs are greatly enhanced when they seek the active engagement of a health center's social workers. A new article in Social Work explores the significant role that social workers can play in an MLP's development, process, and success.

St. Luke’s Hospital and Legal Aid of Western Missouri have begun a program to help uninsured or underinsured patients deal with legal problems that affect their health.

Pro bono work by major law firms across the country has been ticking up the last several years, but especially so since the economy went sour. In the face of swelling demand for assistance in settling landlord disputes, helping nonprofit groups serve the needy and guiding the homeless or disabled into the world of work, lawyers are lending their services as never before.

New video on MLP at Legal Aid of Western Missouri features interviews with Dr. Jeffrey Colvin and attorney Katie Cronin.