VA Medical-Legal Partnership Readiness Guide

Toolkit
Written By NCMLP

Description

Drawing upon expertise, examples, and tools from the field, the VA Medical-Legal Partnership Readiness Guide provides VA Medical Centers (VAMCs) with step-by-step guidance for starting and sustaining an MLP.

  • Part I of the guide outlines how to lay the foundation for a medical-legal partnership, including information on defining a target population, finding a legal partner, funding the partnership, developing a memorandum of understanding, and making the partnership visible and accessible.

  • Parts II and III walk VAMCs through screening Veterans for legal needs and training clinical and other staff on meeting those needs, respectively.

  • The tool concludes with lessons learned about building and operating successful partnerships from existing VAMC-based MLPs.

For background information on the development of the medical-legal partnership intervention in VA settings, see the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership’s May 2019 issue brief, Medical-Legal Partnerships Serving Veterans: History, Growth, and Progress.

 

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Authors

  • Jennifer Trott, MPH, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Health Policy & Management, The George Washington University

  • Joanna Theiss, JD, LLM, Research Associate, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership

  • Alanna Peterson, Senior Research Assistant, Department of Health Policy & Management, The George Washington University

This guide was published by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and the Bob Woodruff Foundation.

 

Acknowledgement

The guide was developed with generous support from the Bob Woodruff Foundation.

NCMLP

ncmlp@gwu.edu

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