Medical Legal Partnership Services

The Vendor is required to provide professional services medical legal partnership.
- The Division accomplishes its mission by:
•    Working together with others.
•    Addressing issues that affect the health of state.
•    Keeping track of the state’s health.
•    Promoting positive lifestyles.
•    Responding to critical health issues and disasters.
•    Promoting the availability of health services.
- The causal connection between maternal stress and low birth weight and pre-term birth is well documented in the scientific literature
- The Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) model:
•    Serves as a method for legal and health care professionals to work together to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations, and
•    Integrates lawyers into the network of care providers in the health care setting.
- The intervention is premised on the idea that a high proportion of low-income individuals face serious legal challenges that adversely affect their social, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
- This MLP intervention consists of the following activities: 
•    Training health care provider and home visiting staff to identify and refer legal and social problems, which, if remedied, would improve participants’ health and wellbeing; 
•    Providing legal services to program participants to address social and legal problems, which, if remedied, would improve participants’ mental and social wellbeing; and 
•    Evaluating the MLP’s impact on participants’ reported stress and social wellbeing.
- The MLP program will assist the home visitors in their efforts to enhance:
•    The economic status, 
•    Educational attainment, 
•    Emotional wellbeing, and 
•    Safety of home visiting clients.

- Contract Period/Term: 2 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: January 06, 2026