Our Impact - MLPB

Changing the Conversation: Legal Partnering as Prevention

Legal Problem-Solving and Flourishing: A Handbook for Perinatal and Early Childhood System-Builders

Over the course of 18 months, a diverse group of 46 local and national stakeholders participated in a Learning Community process sponsored by The JPB Foundation. This handbook includes new tools for interested communities to use when planning and piloting legal problem-solving strategies as an element of care.

Legal Information And Rights Education As An Element of Care: A Promising Health Justice Strategy (2021)

Health Affairs blog describing how cutting-edge communities of care are embracing collective responsibility by systematically incorporating legal information and rights education into social care planning and delivery.

Social Care Matters: Do Teams Have What They Need to Succeed? (2021)

Rhode Island Medical Journal commentary spotlighting legal partnering as a prevention tool within community health workforce was a collaborative effort with our partners at Care Transformation Collaborative – Rhode Island.

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

This report on a 2019 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation Special Initiative convened by MLPB spotlights key housing problem-solving strategies available to interdisciplinary teams serving families.

Legal Education and Problem-Solving in Action

COVID-19 & Access to Housing

After MLPB advocated for one family’s safe housing during the pandemic, families across the Commonwealth benefited.

Reasonable Accommodations & CORI Mitigations

By assisting one woman experiencing homelessness, care team members learned CORI mitigation strategies for future patients.

Immigration Status

A mother of young children encountered immigration status challenges. With support from an interdisciplinary team, she was sworn in as a U.S. citizen!

Education & Transportation

Concerns about equitable access to schooling surfaced during a primary care visit, demonstrating the importance of a person-centered approach to care.

Utilities

A patient’s broken furnace necessitated quick-thinking in advocacy, and provided an opportunity for a care team to learn advanced problem-solving strategies.

“I want to let you know how impressed I have been with your responses to our team’s inquiries. Your responses have been compassionate, clear, detailed, and informative. They also have been so accessible for our [staff] to understand and use to coach their [clients about] legal matters they are facing or anxious about. This [capacity-building] reduces stress and builds competency for both [families] and our staff. And I believe that it will have impact on outcomes for our families.”
– Program Coordinator