LRI: PAI: Delivery Models

The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children (MLPC) is a national program, founded and directed by Boston Medical Center to promote the health and well- being of low-income children and families by confronting the social determinants that influence health and treating vulnerable families with targeted legal interventions. Based in a pediatric clinical setting, lawyers join front-line pediatric health care staff to address children's basic needs for food, housing, education, health care and safety/stability, to promote their long-term health and well-being. MLPC has three core activities: training of front-line health care staff, direct service for patient-families, and systemic advocacy. MLPC's unique brand of preventive law offers early intervention in health-impacting social and income challenges that are responsive to legal remedies.

MLPC is made possible by critical funding from the W.K. Kellogg and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations, Atlantic Philanthropies and the broad support of the legal community. There are now over 70 medical-legal partnerships across the U.S.; about 40% include LSC-funded agencies as the legal partner. In November 2006, MLPC distributed over $400,000 in grants to 20 medical-legal partnership sites in 17 states.

For more information please visit www.MLPforchildren.org.

Contact Information:

Ellen Lawton, Esq.
Executive Director
Medical-Legal Partnership for Children
Boston Medical Center
91 E. Concord Street
Boston, MA 02118
Ellen.Lawton@bmc.org
617-424-3658

Additional Information:

Private Attorney Involvement (PAI)

Overview Resources PAI Written Plans Delivery Models Recruitment Methods Training and Admin Support Tools and Technology Law School Collaborations Board Adopted PAI Resolutions