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Medical-legal Partnerships to Prevent Evictions and Homelessness Among Veterans
Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development
Summary
The legal team in medical-legal partnerships works with healthcare providers to improve their clients' lives. It is unknown whether this approach is better than providing usual legal services, with no special emphasis on non-legal matters and no particular collaboration with healthcare providers. The investigators propose to randomly assign 300 Veterans with housing-related legal problems to either legal help from a medical-legal partnership or help from lawyers in the community. The investigators will follow the randomized Veterans in this study for one year to determine if there is a difference between the two groups of Veterans in their housing situations and their mental health. The investigators will also interview Veterans in both groups about their experience of the legal services they have received.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
85
Start Date
2022-02-01
Completion Date
2026-10-30
Last Updated
2025-11-26
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Medical-legal partnership
Treatment group will receive the MLP intervention through the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center (CVLC) in partnership with the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. The MLP intervention can be categorized into seven activity components: initial in-person and subsequent in-person interviews; discussions with clients by phone; research and review of relevant documents; consultations with clinicians or other attorneys; interactions with opposing parties; time appearing at formal hearings; and travel time.
Referral to pro-bono lawyer
Control group will receive outside legal aid, i.e., control participants will be referred to pro-bono lawyers in the state.
Locations (1)
VA Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven Campus, West Haven, CT
West Haven, Connecticut, United States