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.
Health, Housing, and Justice: Two-Year Implementation Evaluation of a Health System's Multi-State Medical-Legal Partnership to Address Housing Instability
A two-year evaluation of Kaiser Permanente’s (KP) multi-state medical-legal partnership sheds light on how healthcare and legal sectors can work together to address housing instability and what it takes to implement these partnerships effectively at scale. The findings, published in Health Services Research, reveal that the MLP expanded access to legal services and delivered services efficiently. Eighty-two percent of legal cases were resolved with fewer than five hours of attorney time.
Getting Patient Consent for MLP Legal Services
This sample job aid can help front-line healthcare staff understand what type of consent they need to obtain in different legal services and medical-legal partnership situations and where to document it. It was created as part of the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative.
10 Ways Physicians Can Champion MLP Services for Patients
For physicians who want to ensure patients have access to medical-legal partnership services at their healthcare site, this job aid offers 10 ways they can help establish, grow, and sustain medical-legal partnership activities. This job aid can be adapted to work with other types of clinical leaders. It was created as part of the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative.
5 Activities for Medical-Legal Partnership Office Hours
This job aid provides an overview of Medical-Legal Partnership Office Hours activities and a sample agenda to guide MLP site teams as they set up these sessions. It was created as part of the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative.
Environmental Scan of Medical-Legal Partnerships in Health Centers
In 2022, the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and researchers at the George Washington University conducted an environmental scan of medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) operating in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Look-Alike programs. This report provides up-to-date information on MLP implementation or planning at health centers. It explains how these health centers use MLP to identify patients with health-related legal needs and make legal services accessible for low-income and underserved communities. It also sheds light on requirements for the sustainability of MLPs in health centers.
The Academic Medical-Legal Partnership
This report defines how the academic medical-legal partnership (A-MLP) adheres to and deviates from the 8 core elements of a medical-legal partnership and formally recognizes three components unique to A-MLP. Specifically, the team finds that A-MLPs focus on 1) educating pre-professional learners; 2) intentionally creating interprofessional learning environments; and 3) contributing to the evidence base for the MLP model as a health equity intervention.