Center for Children’s Advocacy Medical-Legal Partnership Project
MLPP Publications for Health and Mental Health Providers, Patients and Families
Adolescent Health Care
Healthcare Access for LGBTQ+ Youth
Adolescent Health Care: Legal Rights of Teens – Answers to frequently asked questions
Addendum to Edition 5, 2016 Adolescent Health Care: Legal Rights of Teens
Is it Confidential? Reproductive Healthcare for Teens – English or Spanish
Know Your Rights: Trans or Gender Nonconforming Legal Rights
Disabilities and Special Education
Camp, Daycare, After-School Care for Children with Developmental Disabilities
Cost of Violating ADA Law – Americans with Disabilities Act, Title II and III
Understanding Special Education
Protecting Children with Disabilities – Educational Supports in Elementary and High School
Access and Accommodations in College/Post Secondary Setting: Protecting Youth with Disabilities
Diabetes
Protecting Children with Diabetes – Attending School, Camp, Day Care and After Care Programs
Diabetes: Child Care Provider’s Guide to Compliance with the Law – CCA and CT Office of Early Childhood
Employment Law
Helping Families Understand Employment Law
Parents and Schools
School Success – Parents’ Guide to Working with Schools
Trans and Gender Nonconforming Legal Rights
Know Your Rights: Trans or Gender Nonconforming Legal Rights
Utility Law: Preventing Shutoff
How to Keep the Lights and Gas Turned On – Navigating Utility Law to Prevent Shutoff
No One Should be Without Heat or Electricity: Hardship Protection – English/Spanish flyers
OP-ED | Don’t Get Lost In The Weeds On Rising Cost Of Electricity CT News Junkie | December 22, 2022
Sickle Cell Disease
Protecting Children with Sickle Cell Disease – Ensuring Access and Accommodations in School (provider’s guide)
Protecting Children with Sickle Cell Disease: Helping your Child in School (patient’s guide)
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Social Security Benefits
Social Security Benefits (SSI) (provider’s guide)
Social Security Benefits – Is Your Child Eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI)? (patients’ guide)
Children’s Disability – SSI Resource Card – Disability advocacy for pediatric practitioners
Resources for Hartford Area Practitioners – Helping Families Access Services and Benefits
Resources for New Haven Area Practitioners – Helping Families Access Services and Benefits
Healthcare for Immigrant Patients
Healthcare Information for Immigrant Patients
Connecticut MLPs Summit
2022
New Beginnings
2021
Addressing the Health Equity Divide in the Era of COVID-19
Presentations
- Yale Child Study Center Grand Rounds Presentation on MLPP Impact, Kathryn Meyer, Esq. presentation before Yale Child Study Center, December 8, 2021
- Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Public Forum on Residential Energy Affordability, Bonnie Roswig testimony re affordable energy programs, November 1, 2019
- Americans with Disabilities Act: A Powerful Tool for Justice, Bonnie Roswig, Esq, presentation before the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) Conference, Nov 2015
- Keep the Power On: Utility Clinic Training for Pro Bono Attorneys, 2015
- Medical-Legal Partnerships: Idea to Reality to Changing Pediatric Practice, Nov 2015
- Summer Camp and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 2015
- Helping Low Income Families Maintain Utility Service, pro-bono attorney training, Nov 2015
- High Profile Tragedy and Mental Health Concerns: CCA Legislative Testimony
CT Legislature Bipartisan Task Force on Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety/Mental Health Services Working Group, Jan 2013 - Educational Rights of Children with Disabilities Bonnie Roswig, Esq, Dec 2013
- Mental Health Services Working Group Testimony 2013
- Mental Health Screenings in Primary Care: A Legal Overview Jay Sicklick, Esq, Stamford Hospital Grand Rounds, May 2013
- What’s so Interesting about Medical Necessity? Jay Sicklick, Esq, Jan 2009
- Judicial Intervention for Morbidly Obese Children Jay Sicklick, Esq, Oct 2007
- Adolescent Confidentiality and Teenage Legal Rights: Reproductive Health Issues Jay Sicklick, Esq
- CCMC Grand Rounds – Social Determinants of Health Lauren Smith, MD, MPH, Jun 2006
Articles and Links
- Americans with Disabilities Act: A Powerful Tool for Justice, Bonnie Roswig, Esq, presentation before the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) Conference, Nov 2015
- Community Outreach during a Pandemic, National Energy & Utility Affordability Coalition, Covid-19: Using New Challenges to Inspire Meaningful Solutions, Patricia King, PECO Energy, Manager, Community Engagement; and Bonnie Roswig, Esq, Director, Disability Rights Project, Center for Children’s Advocacy, July 2020
- Stretching the Boundaries: Doctors Changing the Landscape for Lead Exposure, Marjorie Rosenthal, MD, Acting MLP Medical Director, December 2019
- Settlement Agreement, US Justice Department and Learning Care Group (LCG), March 20, 2018
Nationwide child care provider LCG cannot deny access to children simply because they have insulin dependent diabetes. Sweeping settlement agreement under Americans with Disabilities Act requires LCG to accommodate to the needs of insulin dependent children. They must adopt a disability non-discrimination policy which includes not rejecting children merely because they are insulin dependent, training for staff, affirmatively informing parents of their rights, and $10,000 in compensatory damages to each of eight specific complainant families. - StreetCred: Reimagining Pediatric Care: Founded at Boston Medical Center in 2015, StreetCred offers free tax-prep services in pediatrics clinics to families that qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). As of 2019, StreetCred is offered at healthcare facilities in six states — including Yale New Haven Hospital — and helps procure tax refunds for eligible families. Watch our video, featuring MLPP Senior Staff Attorney Alice Rosenthal, whose CCA office is inside Yale New Haven Hospital.
- Protecting the Rights of Parents and Prospective Parents with Disabilities, US Dept of Justice, US Dept of Health and Human Services, Aug 2015
- Utility Access and Health: MLP Patients-to-Policy Case Study, Medical Legal Partnership, Boston, June, 2010
- How Bioethics Can Enrich Medical-Legal Collaborations, Mental Health & Illness, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Winter, 2010
- Poverty Grown Up: How Childhood Socioeconomic Status Impacts Adult Health, Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 2010, www.jdbp.org
- Medical-Legal Partnerships Practicing Preventative Law, ABA Health eSource, July 2009
- Medical Legal Partnership Insight and Passion Change Culture & Practice
- CCA’s Medical Legal Partership: Doctors & Lawyers Work Together to Solve Problems that Harm Health
- Law Graduates Instrumental in Creating National Center for Medical-Legal Collaboration, Northeastern Law Magazine, Summer, 2006
- OCA Report for Children with Special Healthcare Needs
- Links to Medical-Legal organizations
- Social Security Income (SSI) for Youth Leaving DCF Care Toolkit
