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HELP: MLP is a collaboration between Widener University School of Law and Chester health care providers, which aims to improve client well-being by providing legal and social service assistance to address the social determinants of health. Serving clients in Chester, Pennsylvania since 2010, HELP: MLP trains health care and social work staff to identify legal issues for referral and represents children and adults with low incomes in public benefits, housing, family law, and special education cases, among other legal matters. Students across numerous Widener campuses, graduate and undergraduate, from various disciplines, including law, public health, psychology, and Spanish, have received academic credit for assisting HELP: MLP staff attorneys in serving clients, training partners, and learning about the practice of poverty and disability law and the medical-legal partnership model. Dozens more have assisted the work of the Project through the Martin Luther King Semester of Service Program.
In just a few years, HELP: MLP has become a national leader in the medical-legal collaboration movement.
In just a few years, HELP: MLP has become a national leader in the medical-legal collaboration movement.
HELP: MLP | (610)-497-7355 | Community Hospital, 2600 W. 9th St., Chester, PA 19013
