Medical-Legal Partnership Network

MLP Network

Within Dementia Care Aware, the Medical-Legal Partnership Network (MLP Network) has partnered with legal aid organizations and health care systems across California. The MLP Network has developed trainings for primary care teams on common legal issues that affect people with cognitive impairment.

What Services Can MLP Provide?

The DCA Medical-Legal Partnership Network is available to provide free training (in-person and/or virtually) to primary care clinicians and teams on the following medical-legal topics: Advance Care Planning, Capacity, Consumer Debt, Disability Forms, Elder Abuse & Neglect, Housing, Income Supports, Medi-Cal, In-Home Supportive Services, & Long-Term Care, Paid Family Leave, Planning Needs & Considerations for Immigrants, and Preventing the Need for Conservatorship. CE/CME credit is available to attendees.

Resources for Patients, Care Partners and Health Professionals

Learn more about the MLP training topics below!

Advance Care Planning

Capacity

Consumer Debt

Disability Income

Elder Abuse & Neglect

Housing

Income Supports

Medi-Cal / IHSS / LTC

LAAW

Paid Family Leave

Planning Needs for Immigrants

Preventing Conservatorship

General Legal Services for Older Adults

Understanding Legal Services in California Handout

Our Legal and Clinical Partners

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The UCSF-UC Law Consortium is a multidisciplinary collaborative that engages in education and training, research, and public service that advances health and health equity.

Legal Services of Northern California provides crucial legal services and engaging in complex, sophisticated advocacy—through litigation, legislation, administrative advocacy, and community development work.

Legal Aid at Work helps people understand and assert their workplace rights, and advocates for employment laws and systems that help those most in need.

Through a combination of direct representation, policy advocacy and impact litigation, NLSLA attorneys work to expand access to justice and address the most critical needs of people living in poverty throughout Los Angeles.

PLC offers free legal services to low-income residents of Orange County on housing and homelessness prevention, community organizations legal assistance, families and children, consumer law, immigration, medical-legal partnerships, operation veterans re-entry, and federal tax.

ELA provides free civil legal services and Medicare counseling to qualifying seniors and people with disabilities and community education, events, and advocacy to advance seniors’ rights.

UCLA offers a comprehensive network of primary and specialty care services, provides state-of-the-art patient care, and generates research discoveries leading to new treatments and diagnoses.

UCI Health is fiercely dedicated to the discovery of new medical frontiers, to the teaching of future healers and to the delivery of the finest evidence-based care.

As a top-tier academic medical center, UCSD School of Medicine’s role is to improve health through innovative research, education and patient care.

San Ysidro Health is a non-profit organization committed to providing high quality, compassionate, accessible and affordable health care services for the entire family.

The Alzheimer’s Association works on a national and local level to provide care and support for all those affected by Alzheimer's and other dementias by advancing vital research and fighting for critical Alzheimer’s research and care initiatives at the state and federal level.