Webinar: Leveraging Health Center Medical-Legal Partnerships to Advance Community-Oriented Policing
Year Developed: 2022
Resource Type: Archived Webinar.Primary Audience: Enabling Staff
Secondary Audience: Clinicians
Language(s): English
Developed by: National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (See other resources developed by this organization).
Resource Summary: Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) have always been an effective, evidence-based tool for addressing the social determinants of health. How can MLPs advance public safety and community-oriented policing initiatives? In this national webinar supported by HRSA, MLP practitioners and stakeholders from Texas discussed: why community policing matters for health; how their work intersects with public safety approaches; and concrete strategies for engaging in community-oriented policing initiatives that affect the health and well-being of the communities they serve.
Resource Topic: Promising/Best Practices, , Special and Vulnerable Populations, ,
Resource Subtopic: Population Health , Enabling Services (ES), Policy and Advocacy, Implementation and Operations, , , Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), Operational Feasibility, Implementation Feasibility.
Keywords: Access to Care, Legal Issues, Screening, Medical Legal Partnerships (MLPs).This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $6,625,000 with 0 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.