Funders to approach for Health Law Partnership Found Inc

Line 28-the health law partnerships (help) primary premise is that attorneys can intervene to improve the physical, social, and economic environments in which many low-income children live, resulting in their improved health and quality of life. Line 28-to address health-harming legal problems in order to improve health outcomes for low-income children through the establishment of on-site public health legal services offices at childrens three hospital campuses. The public health legal services staff address basic needs affecting the health of low-income children, such as ensuring that they receive the full state and federal program benefits to which they are entitled, ensuring safe and healthy housing conditions, accessing appropriate educational services, and ensuring freedom from abuse,neglect, or violence. Line 28-to improve low-income childrens access to healthcare and the conditions that affect their health through a program of legal and policy systemic advocacy, including advocacy at the legislative, policy-making, and government agency levels. This work focuses on such issues as funding through medicaid and peachcare for kids, health insurance coverage, and other population-based programs designed to improve the overall health and well-being of children. Help works with other community groups that can facilitate broad, statewide resolution of access, resource, eligibility, and programmatic issues. Line 28-to serve as a model demonstration program for interdisciplinary community collaborations that seek to promote the publics health. To achieve this goal, help undertakes on an on-going basis to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of its various program components in order to promote internal quality assurance and continuous quality improvement. Help also undertakes research with irb-approved protocols in order to assess the impact that the program has on the hospitals, outcomes of care, and the health and well-being of the children and families served. Line 28-to foster knowledge, understanding, and a cooperative spirit between the healthcare and legal professions to promote childrens health through interdisciplinary educational programs, including in-service education for healthcare professionals at childrens and student education for law students and graduate professional students. The help legal services clinic at Georgia state universitys college of law as well as externships and practicum placements train future lawyers and healthcare professionals to work together to improve childrens health, especially those from under-served…