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.
Fostering Sustainability through Performance Measurement in Health Center Medical-Legal Partnerships
This issue brief highlights the crucial role of sustainability for medical-legal partnerships (MLP), focusing on programs situated in health centers. It presents performance measures across eight dimensions to assess MLP sustainability. Building on the NCMLP Performance Measures Handbook (April 2016), these measures cover financial and non-financial aspects. They address resistance to innovation and emphasize the importance of communicating value, long-term planning, and securing funding.
VA MLPs: Implementation Guidance and Suggested Measures
This guide offers a framework for identifying the areas of MLP operations for programs based at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sites that may benefit from implementation guidance. It includes potential measures for gauging MLP performance.
Leveraging the Electronic Health Record to Link Health Center Patients with MLP Services
This issue brief provides concrete examples of how health centers in Iowa, Montana, and Texas are leveraging the electronic health record (EHR) to complement their screening for the social determinants of health as well as to increase their capacity to deliver targeted medical-legal partnership-related interventions.
Tool: Medical-Legal Partnership Patient And Community Health Pre/Post Survey
The AHEAD Medical-Legal Partnership Patient and Community Health Pre/Post Survey provides a core set of questions that assess the impact of legal interventions on a patient’s perception of her health and the quality of services receives from an MLP. The survey is designed for broad applicability across different intervention models and describes specific administration instructions for the pre- and post- surveys in detail.
Tool: Medical-Legal Partnership Learner Pre/Post Survey
The Accelerating Health Equity, Advancing through Discovery (AHEAD) Medical-Legal Partnership Learner Pre/Post Survey includes a core set of questions used to examine the effect—on staff member knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs—of various types of education about social determinants of health and medical-legal partnerships. The survey design supports the evaluation of four Entrustable Professional Activities and six General Physician Competencies and applies across different educational intervention models or intensities, including learners in various health professions.
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.