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Utility Protections (October 2025)
An Unlocking Access® monthly training, offered October 29, 2025.
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Navigating Immigration Court: Rhode Island Legal Resources
Information about finding an attorney, family preparedness planning, and navigating immigration courts.
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Protections and Accommodations for Pregnant Workers
Pregnant workers are protected federally by the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, Title VII, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. This FAQ on...
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Navigating Immigration Court: Massachusetts Legal Resources
Information about finding an attorney, family preparedness planning, and navigating immigration courts.
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Evictions (September 2025)
An Unlocking Access® training offered September 30, 2025.
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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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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.
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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
BMC Health Services Research
Cross-sectional survey of cancer care patients demonstrates need for innovation in cancer care delivery to address socio-legal concerns.
February 2, 2021 Learn More
Medical-Legal Strategies to Improve Infant Health Care: A Randomized Trial (2015)
The Project DULCE intervention led to improvements in preventive health care delivery and utilization and accelerated access to concrete supports among low-income...
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Lawyering as Problem-Solving: Implications of Patient-Centered, Accountable Healthcare for the Legal Profession (2014)
Recommendations for health care delivery that incorporates preventive law in innovations in accountable care organizations and patient centered medical homes.
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Project DULCE: Strengthening Families Through Enhanced Primary Care (2014)
Project DULCE is a universal intervention emphasizing concrete supports and improving parent knowledge of child development and parenting. It is cost-effective, efficient,...
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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.
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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.
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