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We fund organizations and projects which disrupt our current behavioral health space and create impact at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.
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Tia Burroughs Clayton, MSS
Learning and Community Impact Consultant
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Alyson Ferguson, MPH
Chief Operating Officer
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Samantha Matlin, PhD
Senior Learning & Community Impact Consultant
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Caitlin O'Brien, MPH
Director of Learning & Community Impact
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Joe Pyle, MA
President
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Bridget Talone, MFA
Grants Manager for Learning and Community Impact
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PhilaKIDS Medical-Legal Partnership for Kensington Families
Kensington Community Resilience Fund
Legal Clinic for the Disabled’s overarching goal for the PhilaKIDS Medical-Legal Partnership in Kensington is to proactively identify and address unmet legal needs affecting the health and well-being of low-income people with disabilities.
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Legal Clinic for the Disabled (LCD)’s Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) work is rooted in the understanding that legal issues do not exist in a vacuum. An unmet legal need is often just one domino waiting to fall with devastating and cascading effects. LCD’s interdisciplinary approach recognizes that disciplines should not exist in silos but rather should combine each discipline’s strengths to promote more efficient and effective outcomes. By practicing “upstream” lawyering through its MLP Initiative, LCD strives to prevent crisis and remedy issues before they impact health and well-being.
LCD’s overarching goal for the PhilaKIDS MLP in Kensington is to proactively identify and address unmet legal needs affecting the health and well-being of low-income people with disabilities by: 1) screening families for unmet legal needs, using the standardized screening tool that LCD developed with healthcare partners from St. Christopher’s; 2) performing case intake for clients referred by St. Christopher’s to the onsite LCD attorney; and 3) providing a wide variety of legal assistance as required for each case, from advice-only to full representation, addressing such needs as food insecurity, public benefits, housing and habitability, domestic violence, and more. This proactive, holistic approach to addressing legal needs promotes overall stability and long-term positive health outcomes for Kensington families who seek medical care at St. Christopher’s.