Resource Details

I-HELP™ Bootcamp: Strengthening Your Ability to Spot and Manage Patients’ Complex Health-Harming Legal Issues

Learning Collaborative - Fall 2024

Year Developed: 2024

Resource Type: Archived Webinar.

Primary Audience: Administrative Staff Board of Directors C-Suite (CEOs, CFOs, CIO, COOs, CMOs, etc.) Clinicians PCAs
Secondary Audience: Enabling Staff Outreach Staff

Language(s): English

Developed by: National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (See other resources developed by this organization).

Resource Summary: NCMLP’s new I-HELP™ Bootcamp is a 5-session learning collaborative designed for healthcare staff of all backgrounds—clinical and nonclinical—to strengthen their knowledge of the legal challenges faced by low-income patient populations. This bootcamp enhanced participants capacity to spot legal needs that affect patient health, improve their ability to screen and refer patients to legal aid, and develop strategies to provide more precise guidance and quality referrals to legal partners. Through case studies and interactive discussions, healthcare teams explored current legal issues across I-HELP™ categories: Income, Housing & utilities, Education & Employment, Legal status, and Personal & family stability.

Resource Details: Learning Objectives: 1. Improve your ability to understand, screen for, and refer patients to legal aid for both common and complex legal issues impacting health. 2. Practice navigating case studies that highlight pressing legal issues in the I-HELP™ categories. 3. Enhance strategies for providing more accurate referrals and legal support, leader to greater access and better health outcomes for patients.

Resource Topic: Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), Value-Based Health Care Transformation, Promising/Best Practices

Resource Subtopic: Enabling Services (ES), Implementation Feasibility, Operational Feasibility.

Keywords: Access to Care, Legal Issues, Medical Legal Partnerships (MLPs).