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.
Building Resources To Support Civil Legal Aid Access In HRSA-Funded Health Centers
This issue brief describes the ways that a supplemental funding opportunity sparked medical-legal partnerships growth in health centers, resulting in expansions in civil legal aid services provided to health center patients by partnering civil legal aid organizations and law school clinics. It shares the experiences of health centers from Hawai’i to New Hampshire that received expanded services awards from HRSA and used them for legal-related enabling services, and extrapolates lessons for other health centers about the impact of collaborations between health centers and civil legal aid services and how to leverage funding opportunities for fostering medical-legal partnerships.
The Invisible Battlefield: Veterans Facing Health-Harming Legal Needs in Civilian Life
This issue brief discusses how medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) are poised to help address the unmet legal needs of veterans by integrating civil legal aid services into existing healthcare services for veterans. MLPs break down the silos between legal stakeholders and the healthcare team to address veteran access to: healthy housing, VA benefits, an honorable military discharge status, and employment. While many veterans still face invisible battlefields in their civilian lives and lack support for their complex legal needs, MLPs for veterans are growing in number and expertise — showing great promise for both confronting and preventing veterans’ legal barriers to health and well-being.
NCMLP Performance Measures Handbook
The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership is engaged in efforts to develop, implement, and test medical-legal partnership (MLP) performance measures. This handbook offers a detailed accounting of seven initial measures and how to use them. The measures cover MLP training, screening, referrals, and outcomes.