Framing Legal Care as Health Care Messaging Guide
Description
The civil legal aid community is in a position to help health care improve the circumstances in which people live, work and play — the social determinants that can negatively impact health. But for healthcare leadership and policymakers to see civil legal aid as a valuable tool for improving health and invest in it, civil legal aid’s role in improving health and health care must be clear. The only way to make legal care visible and necessary to health care is to describe it in the words and values of that community.
This guide helps civil legal aid practitioners message their work to healthcare audiences in order to build stronger cross sector medical-legal partnerships and to encourage investment in that work. The messaging guide helps users:
Translate common civil legal problems and interventions into healthcare talking points;
Frame stories with effective messengers; and
Cultivate stories and data to support four messages that every medical-legal partnership should be able to tell about civil legal aid’s impact on health and health care.
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Author
Kate Marple, MSc, Communications Manager, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
This guide was published by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership.