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 (Legal and Medical Partnership for Milwaukee Families, 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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I think this shows that we’re paying attention to the entire patient. We’re not just taking care of cancer with chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. We’re addressing everything else that goes into the treatment of the individual.
Dr. Kerry Rodabaugh, University of Nebraska Medical Center (Medical-Legal Partnership Benefits Cancer Patients)