Supporting the millions of survivors of domestic/intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and exploitation, requires an intentional and immediate shift away from professional silos and towards multidisciplinary, collaborative health, justice, and equity approaches. This guide helps health centers, domestic violence programs, and civil legal aid organizations leverage their respective skill sets to close access gaps by addressing survivors’ myriad of health and social needs, eliminate risk factors through prevention programs, and improve overall outcomes for individuals and communities.

As an exploration of the intersection of health and justice, this issue brief offers nine recommendations of how health centers and courts can better support the behavioral health of justice-involved people. It proposes ways in which these organizations can collaborate and ultimately foster the next phase of the medical-legal partnership movement, bringing the healthcare provider into the legal context and expanding the pool of potential legal services providers.

This issue brief aims to provide an overview of both the civil and criminal justice systems in the United States. It also describes the cyclical relationship between those systems and housing insecurity, including homelessness. Based on this foundation, the brief outlines potential workflow considerations for health centers working to reduce health disparities for patients and families.

This issue brief highlights how Veterans Affairs (VA)-housed legal clinics can expand their work to serve more Veterans in a targeted manner by adopting best practices from medical-legal partnerships.

This issue brief describes the need for legal services among Veterans and concrete ways that a VA Transition Care Management Program (TCM) can connect Veterans to legal assistance, including medical-legal partnerships.