Systemic Advocacy Working Group
Revising SSI Regulations
The Systemic Advocacy Working Group is working to prepare comments on Social Security Administration (SSA) regulations regarding eligibility for SSI benefits for children and adults, and involve physcians in developing the medical standards for making disability determinations.
The WG's next call will be held on Tuesday, November 25th from 12:30pm-1:30pm EST. Anyone is welcome to participate, but where possible, please participate with your legal/medical counterpart. E-mail Kate.Marple@bmc.org for the call-in information.
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Medical-Legal Partnership Systemic Innovations
The Systemic Advocacy is compiling a grid of systemic innovations from medical-legal partnerships nationwide as a resource for the MLP Network.
Please review the grid linked above. If your partnership has been engaged in systemic advocacy and would like to share your innovations with the Network, e-mail Kate.Marple@bmc.org with the information. There is no deadline for this grid -- we are trying to keep an updated chart.
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Systemic Advocacy Working Group Background:
In response to suggestions from partnership sites, in March 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 Systemic Advocacy Working Group is co-led by Ben Gitterman, MD, Medical Director of the Health Access Project (Washington, DC) and Amy Zimmerman, JD, Legal Director of Medical-Legal Partnership | Chicago. The MLPC Systemic Advocacy Working Group representative is Megan Sandel, MD, MPH, National Medical Director.