Capacity and Sustainability Working Group

 

Stay tuned!  The Capacity and Sustainability Working Group will be hosting three conference calls this spring on:

  • Health care recovery dollars;
  • Basic budgeting for medical-legal partnership; and,
  • Fundraising with law firm partners.

To be added to the distribution list for the Capacity and Sustainability Working Group, please e-mail Kate.Marple@bmc.org.

 

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In response to suggestions from partnership sites, in the spring of 2007 MLPC convened four Working Groups to focus on core components of the medical-legal partnership model in order to identify best practices, current activities, and gaps in practice, research and resources.  The Capacity and Sustainability Working Group is co-led by Diane Pappas, MD, JD, Medical Director of Child Health Advocacy Program (Charlottesville, VA), Mallory Curran, JD, Legal Director of Cleveland Community Advocacy Program (Cleveland, OH), and Randye Retkin, JD, Legal Director of LegalHealth of New York City (New York, NY).  The MLP Capacity and Sustainability Working Group representative is Ellen Lawton, JD, Executive Director of MLPC | Boston.