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• Bridging the Gap: Wisconsin’s Unmet Legal Needs

  By NLADA on January 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This final report by the Access to Justice Study Committee of the State Bar of Wisconsin found that Wisconsin trails neighboring states in tackling the large Justice Gap.

• Medical-Legal Partnership: Impact on Patients With Sickle Cell Disease

  By NLADA on January 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This study looked at how legal interventions affected pediatric patients with sickle cell disease. The researchers find that of the 106 cases opened under the MLP partnership resulted in 99 closed cases with 21 of them “resulting in a measurable gain of benefits.”

• Medical-Legal Partnership Impact on Parents’ Perceived Stress: A Pilot Study

  By NLADA on January 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This study analyzed patient stress before and after receiving a legal intervention through an MLP. The researchers find that patient stress decreased after receiving legal services.

• Framing Legal Care as Health Care

  By NLADA on January 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This guide helps legal service providers in MLPs to reframe civil legal needs as social determinants of health and better message their work to help with health care audiences. This guide shows how civil legal aid versus health care talk about their mission, the description of impact, and description of work and where they can partner and develop a common language for talking about their work.

• Economic Self-Sufficiency among Women Who Experienced Intimate Partner Violence and Received Civil Legal Services

  By NLADA on January 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This study, funded by a DOJ award, found that for women who were experiencing intimate partner violence (also called domestic violence) and who received civil legal services for assistance in obtaining a civil protective order or assisting with a family law problem, saw increases in monthly income increase and number of assistance resources decrease. The study finds that “civil legal services are a critical component of a community coordinated response to IPV” (abstract).

• Psychological Well-Being Among Women Who Experienced Intimate Partner Violence and Received Civil Legal Services

  By NLADA on January 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This study uses Sullivan’s Social and Emotional Well-Being Framework to see why and how women who experienced intimate partner violence (or domestic violence) and received civil legal services experienced improvements in psychological well-being. Women reported a decrease in depressive and PTSD symptoms over one year after receiving civil legal services.

• Poverty, the Great Unequalizer: Improving the Delivery System for Civil Legal Aid

  By NLADA on January 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This article presents an overview of civil legal aid and three reforms to improve delivery of services: 1) comprehensive triage system; 2) using business process improvements; and 3) creating legal information exchange organizations.

• The Social, Geographic, and Organizational Determinants of Access to Civil Legal Aid Services: An Argument for an Integrated Access to Justice Model

  By NLADA on January 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This article proposes an accessibility model that matches supply and demand for civil legal services spatially.

• Optimizing the Health Impacts of Civil Legal Aid Interventions: The Public Health Framework of Medical-Legal Partnerships

  By NLADA on January 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This article shows how medical-legal partnerships, a healthcare delivery model, can address the social determinants of health — how one’s social conditions (like neighborhood, job, and access to resources) affect health.

• Medical-Legal Partnership and Healthy Start: Integrating Civil Legal Aid Services into Public Health Advocacy

  By NLADA on January 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This article looks at the medical-legal partnership model and how it can improve health outcomes by addressing the underlying social determinants of health.