Voices From the Field
Hear about medical-legal partnership -- it's impact and challenges -- from the healthcare and legal providers who work at MLPs across the United States.
Video Interviews
MLP teams and partners talk about medical-legal partnership -- its impact, program challenges, connecting to the MLP Network and more.
- MLPC Hawaii (Honolulu, HI)
- MLP Southern Illinois (Carbondale, IL)
- Cleveland CAP (Cleveland, OH)
- Program for the Health of the People (Shiprock, NM)
- MLP | West Virginia (Charleston, WV)
- Pittsburgh MLP (In development) (Pittsburgh, PA)
Q&As with MLP Staff
MLP physicians, social workers and lawyers discuss how MLP has changed their professional practice as well as the lives of their patient-clients.
- Brooke Nelson, LMSW, LCSW (Medical-Legal Partnership at Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Kansas City, MO)
- Chuck Vega, MD, FAAFP (MedLaw Project, Santa Ana, CA)
- Deborah Anspach, Esq. (Montana Family Advocacy Program, Billings, MT)
- Donita Parrish, Esq. (Cincinnati Child Health-Law Partnership, Cincinnati, OH)
- Earnestine Willis, MD, MPH (Families' Legal and Medical Partnership, Milwaukee, WI)
- Melissa Rodgers, Esq. (Peninsula Family Advocacy Program, San Mateo, CA)
- Rebecca M. Cazabon, Esq., Foley Hoag, LLP (Pro Bono Attorney with Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston, Boston, MA)
- Woody Thorne (Medical-Legal Partnership of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL)
Medical-Legal Partnership Through the Eyes of an EJW Fellow
Cristina Dacchille, Esq., a former EJW Fellow, reflects on life in a medical-legal partnership and the ups and downs of practicing law in an interdisciplinary setting. Click here to read about MLP in her own words.
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MLP Audio Training
Physician champions from across the U.S. talk about how MLP positively impacts their patients and clinical practice. Click here to learn more about medical-legal partnership from some of the doctors who have incorporated it into their practice.
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David W. Hilgers, Chair of ABA’s Health Law Section
