Outcomes

MLP | Boston Client Success Story

Illiassou Balde is an asylee from Guinea.  She is also a patient at Boston Medical Center and a client who has worked with MLP | Boston on multiple matters.  Please click here to read about her immigration case and her experience with MLP | Boston.

November 2009 -- New MLP | Boston Publication!

Our most recent publication is a training manual for medical providers that gives an overview of the five legal issue areas for which MLP | Boston screens.  The guide should serve as a resource for medical professionals throughout Massachussets as well as MLPs in search of training materials.
Clinical Partners in Advocacy:  How Can I-HELP?  (Nov 2009)


Other 2009 Highlights:

Nutrition Support Programs in the Health Care Setting: A Prescription for Hunger Prevention

"Advancing the Integrated Practice of Preventive Law and Preventive Medicine." Preventive Law and Problem Solving: Lawyering for the Future.  Samantha Morton, Thomas Barton, Jack Maypole.  Vandeplas, 2009.

2008 MLP | Boston Status Reports

Over the last year, MLP | Boston had a number of successes within each of its three core competencies: Training and Education, Legal Assistance, and Systemic Advocacy. These achievements are summarized in new annual status reports for BMC and our community health center partners:

MLP | Boston's 2008 BMC Status Report

MLP | Boston's 2008 CHC Status Report


Other 2008 highlights included the following publications:

Article published in the Lancet

Report on Boston's Hidden Homeless - produced jointly with C-SNAP

Study conducted in BMC's Pediatric Emergency Department

Two reports produced by MLP | Boston's Emerson Hunger Fellows in early 2008: