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.
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.
A Planning, Implementation, and Practice Guide for Building and Sustaining a Health Center-Based MLP
This toolkit provides the health center community information and resources to start, strengthen, and sustain a medical-legal partnership (MLP). Much of the guidance and resources are applicable to MLP teams in other healthcare settings.
Medical-Legal Partnership Guide for Agricultural Worker-Serving Organizations
Our nation’s farmworkers endure unsafe living and working conditions. Yet they are often reluctant to seek out help due to fear of employer retaliation, lack of health insurance, or documentation status. This resource provides recommendations and resources to help migrant health and legal services organizations develop medical-legal partnerships to support farmworkers.
VA Medical-Legal Partnership Readiness Guide
Drawing upon expertise, examples, and tools from the field, the VA Medical-Legal Partnership Readiness Guide provides VA Medical Centers (VAMCs) with step-by-step guidance for starting and sustaining an MLP.
Medical-Legal Partnership LegalServer Configuration Guide
To help civil legal aid programs document and describe their crucial contributions to the health of their communities, this guide offers step-by-step instructions on how to collect health and healthcare data in LegalServer, a case management system used by many civil legal aid organizations. The guide walks through how to configure LegalServer with medical-legal partnership fields.