Learning Opportunities
We host virtual webinars, town halls, and learning collaboratives as well as in-person conference workshops. Each opportunity is designed to help healthcare organizations incorporate legal expertise and services into their approach to address health-related social needs and to help legal organizations align their service delivery with healthcare partners. You can search upcoming and past recorded learning opportunities below.
Addressing Disaster-Driven Needs to Enhance Health Outcomes | Webinar (Recording)
Through this webinar, healthcare and legal professionals gained tools to tackle disaster-related challenges that affect patient care and community recovery. The session highlighted strategies for addressing needs during and after disasters, while fostering strong partnerships for coordinated support.
Improving Patient Care and Outcomes through MLP | Webinar Series (Recording)
This three-part webinar series will guide health centers through the essential steps of establishing, integrating, and leveraging a medical-legal partnership (MLP) to enhance patient outcomes and advance performance improvement goals.
Understanding and Addressing the Health-Related Legal Needs of Older Adults and their Families | Webinar Series (Recording)
These webinars equip healthcare providers and medical-legal partnership teams with: 1) information about the health-related legal needs of older adults and their families, and 2) actionable strategies for improving access to care and outcomes by identifying and addressing these unique needs.
Improving Maternal Health Access and Outcomes Through Medical-Legal Partnership | Webinar (Recording)
This webinar offers valuable insights into planning and implementing a medical-legal partnership that integrates an all-systems, perinatal approach to improving maternal health access and outcomes.
Partnering with Public Health to Reduce Indoor Asthma Triggers and Improve Asthma Outcomes | Webinar (Recording)
This webinar highlights how legal services and medical-legal partnerships can partner with a public health department to more effectively reduce indoor asthma triggers and improve asthma outcomes for patients.
Partnering with Legal Aid Providers to Improve Behavioral and Mental Health | Webinar (Recording)
A panel of healthcare and legal experts explore how unmet social and legal needs impact behavioral and mental health access and outcomes for low-income and diverse adult patient populations. This webinar shares how medical-legal partnership teams can work to identify, address, and prevent legal needs for these groups.
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding and Mitigating the Harms to Low-Income Communities | Webinar (Recording)
This webinar explores how medical-legal partnership practitioners, civil legal aid attorneys, health systems, and others can protect and empower patients, clients, and communities in the face of artificial intelligence’s (AI) rapid advancements.
Introduction to Performance Measurement & Evaluation for Health Center Medical-Legal Partnerships | Webinar (Recording)
This webinar introduced new performance measures and resources specifically designed to help community health centers with the evaluation of medical-legal partnerships. These tools are designed to strengthen the sustainability and impact of medical-legal partnerships, positioning the approach as a key strategy for healthcare delivery system transformation and population health improvement.
Health, Housing, and Justice: What Kaiser Permanente Learned from Investing in Legal Aid | Webinar (Recording)
This webinar features an in-depth discussion on the role of legal assistance in healthcare settings, highlighting how upstream legal interventions can address housing instability. Speakers share data from the Kaiser Permanente’s robust evaluation of their medical-legal partnership project, noting ways that collaboration between healthcare teams and legal experts leads to enhanced patient care and community well-being.
Health Center MLP Planning, Implementation & Practice | Webinar Series (Recording)
This webinar series supports health center-based medical-legal partnership planning, implementation, and practice. Using case examples and best practices from years of field research, each session focuses on one of the most critical questions when establishing and operating effective MLPs.
Medical-Legal Partnership in Action | Webinar Series (Recording)
This webinar series explores how the medical-legal partnership model can be used to address six critical health equity topics: integrated care teams, transition care for foster youth, climate change, emergency preparedness for intimate partner violence, behavioral health, and people impacted by the criminal justice system.
Health Center MLP Environmental Scan: Findings and Examples from the Field | Webinar (Recording)
This webinar shares the findings of the 2022 Health Center Medical-Legal Partnership Environmental Scan.
“No Wrong Door” for Veterans: Veteran Cultural Competency Training for MLP Teams | Webinar (Recording)
Speakers share current best practices for serving Veterans across settings and how to use the medical-legal partnership approach to address the health-harming legal needs of Veterans and their families.
The Medical-Public Defender Partnership | Webinar (Recording)
In this webinar, speakers share the the impact of criminal legal involvement on health and well-being, Rhode Island’s approach to bringing together health centers and public defenders to support mutual patient-clients, and best practices that empower health centers to advocate for patients with criminal legal involvement.