Medical-Legal Partnership: Healthy Housing Training

Community Legal Aid received a two-year grant from the Legal Services Corporation to build a medical-legal partnership with UMass Memorial Health Care. The partnership will provide legal services to low-income patients who are receiving care through an innovative new primary care model being implemented at three primary care sites at UMass Memorial Medical Center, which serve a high number of Medicaid patients. We are reaching out to community partners and advocates who may be interested in joining this initiative.

Social and economic factors, including housing, greatly impact the health of low-income, minority and other marginalized communities and interfere with clinical providers' ability to effectively and efficiently improve the health of their most vulnerable patients. Through the partnership, clinical providers who have been trained to screen for health-harming legal issues will refer families to Community Legal Aid. We invite you, a private bar attorney, to join us in addressing the health-harming legal needs of our community by taking on a housing case.

At this training, you will learn:
• About Medical-Legal Partnership
• How to identify defective housing conditions which violate the State Sanitary Code
• How to contact the local board of health to initiate inspection and enforcement
• How to file a court complaint, including a request for immediate relief
• How to quickly access resources to support your pro bono involvement
Speaker: Jane Edmonstone, Staff Attorney, Housing Unit, Community Legal Aid
Hosted by: Anita C. Conte, J.D., Pro Bono Coordinator, Community Legal Aid - Volunteer Lawyers Service

By volunteering with this partnership, you can help a family live in healthy housing.

DATE: April 19, 2016

TIME: 1:00pm-3:30pm

WHERE:
Community Legal Aid
405 Main Street, 3rd Floor
Worcester, MA 01608

COST: By attending this free training, participants agree to accept two pro bono referrals during the project.
RSVP: Please RSVP to Pro Bono Coordinator, Anita C. Conte, J.D., Community Legal Aid at aconte@cla-ma.org or (508) 425-2824
Please feel free to share this invitation with any colleagues or friends who may be interested. This will be the second in a series of Medical-Legal Partnership train offered by Community Legal Aid. Please look forward to upcoming invitations!