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.
Tips to Help Health Centers Address Disability & Chronic Disease Discrimination
This resource contains tips, electronic resources, and two brand new screening tools for health centers to help their patients with disabilities and chronic diseases. It covers topics such as employment, immigration, education, and Long COVID.
Sample MLP Impact Report from the Medical-Legal Community Partnership in Los Angeles
Launched in 2018, the Medical-Legal Community Partnership (MLCP) is an initiative of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services that provides no-cost civil legal assistance to patients. This March 2022 Impact Report shares MLCP’s key achievements since its inception, especially to meet the unique demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes the services that MLCP provides, the impact and outcomes of those services, and lessons learned by the partners. This sample impact report can serve as an example for other medical-legal partnerships about how to share their impact with partners and stakeholders.
How Health Center Care Teams Can Address Health and Housing for Patients Involved With the Justice System
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.
VA MLPs: Implementation Guidance and Suggested Measures
This guide offers a framework for identifying the areas of MLP operations for programs based at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sites that may benefit from implementation guidance. It includes potential measures for gauging MLP performance.
Expanding VA-Housed Legal Clinics to Serve Veterans
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.
Assisting Veterans and Service Members with Legal Needs During VA Transitions
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.