MLPB believes that health care should systematically account for people’s legal rights, risks and remedies.
MLPB equips medical and social service communities of care with legal education and problem-solving insights that foster prevention, health equity, and human-centered system change. Through training, consultation and technical assistance – our team-facing legal partnering framework – MLPB helps health care workforce members and organizations better connect people to the legal resources and protections they seek. MLPB empowers care team members to become strengths-based, role-aligned partners in legal problem solving.
At a household level, our capacity-building expertise focuses care teams on addressing health related social needs. MLPB seeks to disrupt the trajectory where social, economic or environmental factors transform into a legal and health crisis. At the systems level, our partners embrace a new way of doing their work, take action to integrate social care, engage in strategic change management, and create new systems to provide a more comprehensive set of services in the name of health and justice.
MLPB is a pathbreaking organization and is credited as the first medical-legal partnership nationwide. Originally based in the Pediatrics Department at Boston Medical Center in 1993, MLPB spun off from BMC in 2012 and is now an independent program serving partners throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island. MLPB operates under the fiscal sponsorship of TSNE.
