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Resource Guide

Policy Advocacy in Rhode Island: Tips for Care Teams

Policy advocacy is important form of support that asks critical questions: What laws are helping or harming communities? Who is working to...

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Immigration Status Spotlight on Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

About 966,000 people, or nearly 20% of the Boston metropolitan area, are immigrants. This includes 53,000 Haitians, 7,000 Ukrainians, and 4,000 Venezuelans....

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Education
Resource Guide

RI McKinney-Vento Rights of Students Experiencing Homelessness

Care teams partnering with families know that stability helps students thrive academically. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento) is a federal law...

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Education
Education
Resource Guide

MA McKinney-Vento Rights of Students Experiencing Homelessness

Care teams partnering with families know that stability helps students thrive academically. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento) is a federal law...

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Resource Guide

MA – Resources Available to People Regardless of Immigration Status

For immigrants and mixed status families, immigration status is a threshold eligibility factor for many health-promoting resources. This can make it hard...

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Resource Guide

RI – Resources Available to People Regardless of Immigration Status

Care teams partnering with people know that immigration status (like income level) is a threshold eligibility factor for many resources and benefits....

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Couple with young child
Issue Brief

Before Crisis Hits: Embedding Legal Support

This brief, sixth in a series, reports on the multisite implementation of the preventive legal partnership component of Project DULCE.

March 25, 2021 Learn More
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guardianship photo
Journal Article

State Paid Family and Medical Leave Laws: Growth and Gaps in Coverage (2021)

Overview co-authored by MLPB CEO Samantha Morton and colleagues from the Brown Schools of Medicine and Public Health and the Center for...

February 26, 2021 Learn More
Journal Article

From Practice to Theory: Medical-Legal Partnership Enters its Third Decade (2013)

Medical-Legal Partnership has evolved from referral-based advocacy for indivdual patients to one of structured integration of preventive law to advance population health.

February 2, 2021 Learn More
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Lessons from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Data about the Double Burden of Cancer and Social Determinants of Health (2018)

Patients undergoing cancer care treatment require tailored screening, navigation, and legal problem-solving to address health-related social needs.

February 2, 2021 Learn More
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Strengthening families through the integration of legal advocacy into a home visiting program (2016)

Home visitors learn more about a family’s situation than other professionals, allowing for preventive legal problem-solving.

February 2, 2021 Learn More
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Project DULCE: A Randomized Control Trial Demonstrating Compassion Aligns with Cost Containment (2017)

The Project DULCE intervention generated reduced emergency department utilization, enhanced adherence to preventive care, and greater access to concrete supports.  

February 2, 2021 Learn More
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When Social Complexity Drives Medical Complexity: Piloting Medical-Legal Partnership to Improve Patient Health and Increase Healthcare Team Efficacy (2015)

This pilot partnership aims to build skills and knowledge among current and future workforce members relating to social determinants of health.

February 2, 2021 Learn More
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housing
Issue Brief

Partnering with Families Experiencing Housing Instability: Considerations for Interdisciplinary Teams Based in Massachusetts and Beyond (2020)

Learning from a 2019 Special Initiative sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts.

February 2, 2021 Learn More