Leveraging Legal Services on the Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team

Report / Fact Sheet
Written By NCMLP

Description

The Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (H-PACT) is a medical home treatment model being implemented at over 50 Veterans Affairs medical centers (VAMCs) nationwide. The goal of the H-PACT model is to provide the collaborative care necessary to tackle the physical, mental, and social determinants of health which can lead to homelessness. Currently, one-quarter (25.9 percent) of VA healthcare systems that have an H-PACT also have an on-site medical-legal partnership.

This brief highlights the potential for partnership between the legal community and H-PACTs at VAMCs, and profiles MLPs that are successfully tackling the unmet legal needs of Veterans experiencing and at-risk of homelessness through this approach.

 

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Authors

  • Jennifer Trott, MPH, The George Washington University

  • Kimberly Lattimore, The George Washington University

This issue brief was published by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and the Bob Woodruff Foundation.

 

Acknowledgement

This issue brief is possible thanks to generous support from the Bob Woodruff Foundation.

NCMLP

ncmlp@gwu.edu

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