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NHLA Receives Additional Grants to Expand Medical-Legal Project to the North Country
NHLA Receives Additional Grants to Expand Medical-Legal Project to the North Country
NHLA recently received a two-year grant of $130,00 from the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust and a two-year grant of $50,000 from the NH Charitable Foundation to expand its medical-legal collaborative project, the New Hampshire Health Law Collaborative (NHHLC), to the North Country. This funding is in addition to the two-year grant of $157,408 NHLA has already received from the Endowment for Health in support of the North Country expansion. The goal of the NHHLC is for lawyers to use their advocacy skills to improve the health and welfare of impoverished children by addressing their basic needs for food, housing, education, health care and safety. For the past two and one-half years, the NHHLC has been partnering with Child Health Services (CHS), a community health care facility that serves low-income children in Manchester to provide legal assistance to CHS clients. The funding from the Endowment for Health will enable the NHHLC to partner with three community health centers in Littleton, Berlin and Colebrook to provide services to low-income clients of those clinics as well. NHLA attorney Marta Rodriguez, recently took over as the Project Director for the NHHLC and works on-site at CHS to provide legal assistance to CHS clients and to train and prepare educational materials for CHS staff on legal issues affecting their clients. Cases that will benefit from special expertise are referred to other NHLA attorneys, leveraging the breadth of NHLA services for CHS clients. Attorney Rodriguez will oversee the expansion of the NHHLC to the North Country. In addition to the the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust, the NH Charitable Foundation, and Endowment for Health, the NHHLC has also been generously supported by the Greater Manchester Charitable Trust, the Norwin S. and Elizabeth N. Bean Foundation, the Medical Legal Partnership for Children and the NH Bar Foundation.
