Technical Assistance & Support
The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership is committed to providing a range of technical assistance to cultivate and support nascent and active medical-legal partnership sites. By providing a robust infrastructure to connect medical-legal partnership sites, we offer:
- Dissemination of Medical-Legal Partnership Network Materials
- Phone and E-mail Support
- Matching Medical and Legal Partners
- Site Visits
- Annual Training Conferences
Dissemination of Medical-Legal Partnership Network Materials, Including:
- Sample start-up documents including grant proposals and memorandum of understandings
- Standardized needs assessment and advocacy assessment tools
- Training materials and tools for adaptation in local communities
- Best practices in capacity and sustainability, evaluation, systemic advocacy and training and education
MLP Network members can download resources directly from the Resource Library.
Phone and E-mail Support
NCMLP provides phone and e-mail support to help active and developing partnership sites develop effective strategies to address programmatic challenges, such as:- Engaging medical champions
- Fundraising
- Developing a pro bono component
- Navigating issues of confidentiality
Matching of Potential Medical and Legal Partners
NCMLP helps legal and medical professionals interested in developing a partnership find an appropriate legal or medical partner in their community.Contact Us
Site Visits To Support Partnership Activities
NCMLP staff conduct site visits at partnership sites in order to meet with key stakeholders and provide in-depth technical assistance to address specific programmatic challenges.Request a site visit from NCMLP
Annual Training Conferences
Each year, NCMLP hosts a national MLP Summit where partnerships from around the country come together to discuss advancements in the model and share best practices. The location and date of the 6th annual summit will be announced in May.Staff from partnership sites in the MLP Network also frequently offer sessions at a variety of national medical and legal conferences. View upcoming sessions
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Medical-Legal Partnerships have been helping families across the country identify and address the underlying factors that affect their health. Working together, doctors and lawyers can help patients find solutions. This is a model that has been shown to save money , and it should be expanded.
Representative Dan Maffei (NY-25)
