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Bridging Divides

Bridging Divides, MLPB’s blog, offers reflections and calls to action from our perch at the intersection of legal education and problem-solving, preventive law as preventive medicine, and health justice. Click through recent posts to see what’s on our mind.

Strengthening the Social Care Toolbox with Legal Rights Education

by Samantha Morton – CEO, MLPB and Eman Khatri – Intern, Wellesley College June 29, 2021 On the afternoon...

June 29, 2021MLPB

Strengthening Community: 24 Hours at the Virtual DULCE National Forum

CEO Samantha Morton attended the DULCE National Forum during National Public Health Week 2021.

April 8, 2021MLPB

Telementoring the Community Health Workforce to Bolster Social Health: Exciting Innovation in Rhode Island

by Samantha Morton – CEO, MLPB March 1, 2021

March 1, 2021MLPB

Fair Housing: Fundamental to Family Health, and Elusive

by Samantha Morton – CEO, MLPB and Salin Geevarghese – Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Policy September...

September 14, 2020MLPB

Event Recap — Old or New, “Normal” Hasn’t Cut It: Innovative Strategies to Promote Housing Stability Among Families with Young Children

by Franny Zhang, Content Lead June 29, 2020

June 29, 2020MLPB

The “Cavalry” Isn’t Coming: We All Must Become the Cavalry

by Samantha Morton, CEO November 14, 2019 The barriers that block families’ access to health-promoting benefits, services and legal...

November 14, 2019MLPB

Legal Partnering as Prevention

by Samantha Morton, CEO October 4, 2019 How we support young children and their families to not merely survive...

October 4, 2019MLPB