Expanding VA-Housed Legal Clinics to Serve Veterans

Description

Among Veterans at risk for housing instability, civil legal matters—such as family law issues, eviction and utility shut-offs, and problems with accessing disability benefits—routinely rise to the top of self-reported unmet needs. In the current situation where there are insufficient affordable resources to address these needs, legal help provided through programs like Veterans Affairs (VA)-housed legal clinics is vital. VA-housed legal clinics make free legal assistance conveniently available where many Veterans seek health care and other social supports.

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

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Authors

• Jennifer Trott, MPH, The George Washington University

• Kimberly Lattimore, The George Washington University

• Joel Teitelbaum, JD, LLM, The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership

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.