Capacity and Sustainability

In 2007, medical-legal partnerships nationwide provided direct legal services to more than 7,500 individuals and families and gave nearly 7,000 case consultations to front-line health care staff!

MLP Program Infrastructure

Click on the links below for information designed to help medical-legal partnerships get started. These pages provide overviews and sample documents pertaining to:

· Planning Grants and Budgets;

· Memoranda of Understanding; and,

· Cultivating Medical Champions.

Introductory Core Materials

Cox White Paper Series--Capacity Building Strategies

October 2005

This paper provides best practices and strategies for building external support for the MLP model and strengthening ties with internal MLP constituencies. It was written by the New England Regional Medical-Legal Network through the support of the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust.

Legal Service Delivery in the Clinical Setting

Confidentiality and Ethics

Pro Bono Involvement

MLP Cost-Benefit

Media Relations

Capacity and Sustainability Working Group