Resources

We publish research, tools, and lessons learned to help healthcare and legal organizations build and operate medical-legal partnerships and to help funders and policymakers advance medical-legal partnership activities. You can search those resources in the library below.

The library also links to journal articles, authored both by National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership staff and MLP practitioners and researchers from the field, that highlight ways medical-legal partnerships have improved patient health and well-being, the healthcare workforce, and healthcare delivery. A list of these articles with summaries are also available on the Peer-Reviewed Research page.

NCMLP 6/15/26 NCMLP 6/15/26

Advancing Patient Health, Wellness, and Satisfaction

This series of three (3) fact sheets from NCMLP explores how justiciable events shape individual and community wellness, and how health centers can respond with integrated, evidence-based approaches. Drawing on national research, the series examines how people navigate wellness-related problems — where they seek help, what drives their satisfaction with legal, medical, and mental health services, and how cross-disciplinary collaboration affects both patient and provider outcomes. Together, these resources equip health centers to strengthen community partnerships, improve screening and referral practices, reduce provider burnout, and implement sustainable, wellness-centered strategies that enhance quality, value, and outcomes.

NCMLP 5/29/26 NCMLP 5/29/26

Aligning the I-HELP™ Framework with Healthcare Quality Measurement

This publication offers practical guidance and examples of how health centers can align the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership’s I‑HELP™ framework with healthcare quality measurement, helping teams assess the impact of medical-legal partnerships on patient outcomes and performance improvement.

NCMLP 5/26/26 NCMLP 5/26/26

How Primary Care Associations Can Serve as Champions of Multisector Collaboration

This publication will highlight how primary care associations (PCAs) can play a leading role in the development and implementation of health center-based medical-legal partnerships (MLPs). The spotlight will also help health centers understand how the evidence-based MLP approach can support improvements in care quality and patient outcomes.

NCMLP 4/20/26 NCMLP 4/20/26

Medical-Legal Partnership as Value-Based Primary Care: Interprofessional Teamwork for Health-Related Social Needs

This article published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine describes ways that medical-legal partnership services can reduce hospitalizations and save on health care costs. It details steps to integrate medical-legal partnership activities into value-based healthcare financing streams.

NCMLP 4/7/26 NCMLP 4/7/26

MLP Housing Trainings for Healthcare Teams

As part of regular medical-legal partnership practice, legal team members train healthcare team members’ about specific health-related legal topics to increase and improve referrals to medical-legal partnership legal partners. A series of housing trainings for healthcare providers were created for the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative. While initially created to train KP front-line healthcare staff, these trainings can be easily adapted and used by any MLP.

NCMLP 12/16/25 NCMLP 12/16/25

How Healthcare and Legal Partners Balance Survival and Innovation

This site profile explores how Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma is strengthening and adapting its medical-legal partnership model as the healthcare and legal landscapes evolve.