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2025 Federal Policy Recap (December 2025)
An Unlocking Access® training offered December 2025.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Legal Partnering for Child and Family Health: An Opportunity and Call to Action for Early Childhood Systems (2019)
MLPB’s team-facing legal partnering model connects the dots between access to justice and family wellbeing, bolstering early childhood sector goals at household,...
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Unlocking Access: The Connections Between Medical Certifications and Health Equity (2019)
Clinicians and other health system actors have unique ability to assist in the success of their patients’ applications to safety net programs.
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