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.
Homelessness, Health, and Medical-Legal Partnerships
This fact sheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of homeless individuals and ways integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It includes data from a study in Connecticut and New York City highlighting the housing and mental health benefits of MLP services for homeless veterans.
Medical-Legal Partnership Origin Story: People’s Community Clinic in Austin
This medical-legal partnership origin case study traces the team at the People’s Community Clinic in Austin, Texas through their MLP planning process. It includes how the nuts and bolts of the partnership came together and how it’s expanded over time. Through interviews with more than a dozen front-line staff and administrators, the story also looks at how legal services fit in the health center’s broader social determinants of health strategy.
Transgender Health and Medical-Legal Partnerships
This fact sheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of transgender individuals and ways integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It examines medical-legal partnership programs at three healthcare organizations and how they operate, and it shares stories of people benefiting from medical-legal partnership services.
School-Based Health and Medical-Legal Partnerships
This fact sheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of youth and ways integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It examines medical-legal partnership programs at two school-based health centers and how they operate, and it shares stories of students benefiting from medical-legal partnership services.
Medical-Legal Partnership Impact on Parents' Perceived Stress: A Pilot Study
A pilot study at Rutgers showed that, following a medical-legal partnership intervention, parents had improvements in perceived stress.
Needs of Homeless Veterans: 5 Years of the CHALENG Survey 2012–16
National surveys of homeless veterans have been conducted for over a decade, but there has been no examination of changes in the needs of homeless veterans. This article looks at data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ 2012, 2014, and 2016 CHALENG surveys to see how homeless veterans’ most pressing needs have changed over the last several years.