About Social Work-Medical-Legal (SWML) Partnership
Our Team
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Our Approach
The Social Work-Medical-Legal (SWML) Partnership team is comprised of highly skilled professionals with expertise in various areas. With unique skills gleaned from respective work experiences, they provide clear, insightful guidelines in how to establish a tri-collaborative to effectively address health-harming social needs/determinants.
Our Approach
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Our Approach
There are a multitude of healthcare settings with varying challenges, therefore, we believe in taking a personalized approach to the needs of each client. For this, we work closely with each group to better understand their goals allowing customized solutions to be developed for increasing positive outcomes.
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Important Links
Medical-legal partnership: Collaborating with lawyers to identify and address health disparities:
Jessica L. Mantel and Leah R. Fowler, Patient Referral Failures, 32 Health Matrix 1 (2022)
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/healthmatrix/vol32/iss1/3
Effective leadership styles:
Sethuraman, K., & Suresh, J. (2014). Effective leadership styles. International Business Research, 7(9). https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v7n9p165
Patient referral failures:
Jessica L. Mantel and Leah R. Fowler, Patient Referral Failures, 32 Health Matrix 1 (2022)
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/healthmatrix/vol32/iss1/3
Integrating social workers into medical–legal partnerships:
Colvin, J. D., Nelson, B., & Cronin, K. (2012). Integrating social workers into medical–legal partnerships: Comprehensive problem solving for patients. Social work, 57(4), 333-341. https://academic.oup.com/sw/article-abstract/57/4/333/1895385
A New IDEA for Improving the Education of Children with Disabilities in Foster Care:
Valverde, J. R. (2006). A New IDEA for Improving the Education of Children with Disabilities in Foster Care: Applying Social Work Principles to the Problem Definition Process. Child. Legal Rts. J., 26, 14.
CDC announces grants to address social determinants of health:
Federal funding may boost social determinants of health infrastructure:
National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health trials - mind & body interventions:
SAMHSA grants for the benefit of homeless individuals:
Pediatric mental health care access program (provided by HRSA):
Patient referral failures:
Mantel, J., & Fowler, L. (2022). Patient referral failure. Gale OneFile. https://go-gale-com.libproxy1.usc.edu/ps/i.do?p=HRCA&u=usocal_main&id=GALE%7CA705568639&v=2.1&it=r&aty=ip
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