Unlocking Access Hub

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Legal Key creates a wide range of resources for subscribers and the public that demystify common health-related legal needs. These resources are updated regularly to keep up with changes in laws, regulations, and practice. Subscriber-only content is indicated with a lock icon.

Legal Key’s Unlocking Access® Hub provides our subscribers with important educational tools. Resources include training decks and recordings, one page summaries, and short guides. Each is designed to equip communities of care with information and tools to engage in legal problem-solving.

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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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So You Want to Talk About Immigration Status

Immigration status frequently impacts a person’s eligibility to work, ability to reside in the US, access health insurance, food, or housing supports....

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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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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
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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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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
Issue Brief

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,...

February 2, 2021 Learn More
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Issue Brief

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.

February 2, 2021 Learn More
Issue Brief

A Strengths-Based Approach to Screening Families for HRSN

Six concrete recommendations for a strengths-based approach to social need screening with families, to minimize potential harm and unintended consequences.

February 2, 2021 Learn More
Journal Article

Housing Intervention for Medically Complex Families Associated with Improved Family Health: Pilot Randomized Trial (2020)

Children’s HealthWatch at BMC report on a pilot population-specific model that integrates health, housing, legal, and social services can improve health-related outcomes...

February 2, 2021 Learn More