Medical-Legal Partnership:
Transforming Health Care Through Preventive Law
March 26 - 27, 2009 | Cleveland Marriott Downtown at the Key Center, Cleveland, OH






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THURSDAY, MARCH 26th

8:00am

Registration

8:50am

Welcome
Ellen Lawton, Esq.

9:00am

Keynote Address
Connie Schultz
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist, Cleveland Plain Dealer

9:30am

Medical-Legal Partnership in 2009: Where Are We Now?

10:15am

Break

10:30am
Capacity and Direct Service 101 Ethics in the Trenches A Collaborative Approach to Addressing Children's Environmental Health -- Working Together to Help Families "Keep The Power On" MLP in the LSC Context: 1+1=3 KABs: Evaluating the Impact of Training on Front Line Healthcare Staff Integrating Development Offices: Collaborative Fundraising for MLP
11:30am

Advanced Championing: The Role of Doctors, Nurses, and Social Workers in an MLP

12:30pm

Lunch / Affinity Groups

1:30pm
Training and Education 101 Developing and Sustaining a Multi-Site Medical-Legal Partnership The Eye of the Hurricane: MLP from the Patient Perspective Medical-Legal Partnerships and Immigrant/Refugee Advocacy: A New Paradigm for Healthcare Share and Share Alike: MLP Practice in the Rural Context In Union, There is Strength: Adding Lawyers to the Medical Social Worker's Toolbox
2:30pm

Priority Setting for Medical-Legal Partnership

3:30pm

Break

3:45pm
Pro Bono 101 View From the Top: Executive Directors and Department Chairs Answer the Question "Why MLP?" The Ellis Island of Legal Services: MLP as a Tool to Reach Immigrant Communities Fostering the Next Generation of Professionals: Engaging Educational Institutions as Partners in MLP Evaluators, Lawyers, and Doctors: What They Mean When They Say "Evaluation" The Lawyer-Driven MLP
4:45pm

Medical-Legal Partnership Poster Session

Posters on the topics of Capacity and Sustainability, Evaluation, Training and Education, Systemic Advocacy, and Direct Service will be on display. Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts in one of these core areas for the poster session. Click here for full details.

Deadline for submission: January 23, 2009

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Bowling Party at The Corner Alley
Sponsored by the MetroHealth Medical Center

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 27th

8:15am

Welcome
Ellen Lawton, Esq.

8:30am

Keynote Address
Robert Kahn, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

9:15am
Evaluation 101 Ethics at 40,000 Feet: Big Picture Ethical Dimensions of MLP Practice Cost-Benefit, Mission Creep, and MLP: Dynamics of Healthcare Recovery Lead Exposure Advocacy Strategies Bridging the Two-Week Gap: The Importance of Developing Relationships with State Prison Systems to Serve the Re-Entry My Kid Could Do That: Training Priorities for the Advanced MLP
10:15am

Greater Than the Sum of its Parts: Building a Regional MLP Network

11;15am

Break

11:30am
Evaluation Working Group Capacity and Sustainability Working Group Systemic Advocacy Working Group Training and Education Working Group  
12:30pm

Lunch / Regional Groups

3:45pm
Funding 101 Do MLPs Need Institutional Review Board (IRB) Approval? What, Why and How? Pro Bono as a Healing Art: MLP and the ABA Collaboration = Innovation: The Intersect of MLP and Behavioral Health The Role of MLP in Serving the Elderly and Preventing Elder Abuse Working in Two Worlds: The Challenges of Being Employed by a Legal Non-Profit While Housed in a Medical Setting
2:30pm

Adding Value: Why Grantmakers Invest in MLP

3:30pm

Concluding Remarks: A Roadmap for the Future
Ellen Lawton, Esq.

4:00pm

Adjourn

 

Breakout Session Tracks
MLP 101
Specifically designed for new and developing partnerships
Capacity & Sustainability
Direct Service
Evaluation
Training & Education
System Advocacy

MLP Office Hours

MLP staff, partners, and consultants will be available to meet with participants individually to answer questions and discuss programmatic concerns on March 26th and March 27th from 10:30am - 2:00pm.

By appointment only.

Please contact Kate Marple at (617) 414-7439 or kate.marple@bmc.org to schedule an appointment.

 

For detailed information on the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children,
please visit www.mlpforchildren.org.

 

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