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.

Complex Care Health Settings and Medical-Legal Partnerships
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Complex Care Health Settings and Medical-Legal Partnerships

This fact sheet describes describes five complex care settings that have integrated medical-legal partnership services into care delivery. It also features data on the ways these partnerships have demonstrated initial success in improving both physical and mental health conditions as well as stabilizing income and housing for patients with complex conditions. Data also shows how MLPs curb costly overuse of healthcare services by addressing the root causes of patients’ problems.

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Medical-Legal Partnership Origin Story: People’s Community Clinic in Austin
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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.

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