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220302 1504 Fwd_ Do you serve immigrant populations_From:Frances Marquez To:Frances Marquez Subject:Fwd: Do you serve immigrant populations? Date:Wednesday, March 2, 2022 3:04:44 PM Attachments:TANYA PROJECT SUMMARY IN PDF FORMAT 4144.pdf Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Michele Magar <tanyaprojectmlp@gmail.com> Date: March 2, 2022 at 12:55:52 PM PST To: Frances Marquez <fmarquez@cypressca.org>, Jonathan Kung <jkung@ucsd.edu> Subject: Fwd: Do you serve immigrant populations? Yet another advocacy idea for next year: starting a medical-legal partnership in Cypress that unites health care and legal professionals to help low-income Cypress residents. Attached is the one-page summary for the Tanya Project, which includes the cite to a study proving cost-effectiveness of MLPs. I am sure there are some in and around LA that you can study as models. — Michele Begin forwarded message: From: The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership <ncmlp@gwu.edu> Subject: Do you serve immigrant populations? Date: March 2, 2022 at 12:29:16 PM PST To: m <tanyaprojectmlp@gmail.com> Reply-To: The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership <ncmlp@gwu.edu> Do you serve immigrant populations? Join us tomorrow, March 3, 2022 from 1PM - 2PM PT (4PM - 5PM ET) to hear from panelists Emily Arnold (UC San Francisco), Omar Martinez (Temple University), and Rodgrigo Stein (La Clinica del Pueblo) as they guide us through the Best Practices in Screening & Data Collection for MLPs Serving Immigrant Populations. What We'll Cover: Structure of medical-legal partnerships in immigrant-serving organizations Strategies to reach and engage immigrant populations Best practices for screening for health-harming legal needs among immigrant populations Effective strategies to engage immigrants in the legal and social service continuum of care Policy recommendations to promote legal advocacy in immigrant-serving organizations When:March 3, 2022, 1PM - 2PM PT, 4PM - 5PM ET In consideration for our friends on the west coast, this event is being hosted in Pacific Time. This is the second installment of our webinar series based on the toolkit, "Bringing Lawyers onto the Health Center Care Team to Promote Patient & Community Health." Stay tuned for details on the next session. This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). **Questions? Contact the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at ncmlp@gwu.edu. Copyright © 2021 National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for medical-legal partnership news alerts. Our mailing address is: National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership 2175 K St NW Ste 500 Washington, DC 20037-1842 Add us to your address book REGISTER NOW This email was sent to tanyaprojectmlp@gmail.com why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership · 2175 K St NW Ste 500 · Washington, DC 20037- 1842 · USA The Tanya Project: a Medical-Legal Partnership for Women With Cancer Michele Magar, Supervising Attorney TanyaProjectMLP@gmail.com (415) 793-4144 I. Summary: Free legal advice and referral is a crucial but unmet need for many women who have or had cancer. We provide free lawyers to help our clients win health insurance appeals, obtain/retain Medicaid/Medicare, draft end-of-life documents, and avoid discrimination on the basis of their cancer status and/or cancer history. Clients with other types of legal needs are referred to free/low cost legal service providers. Hospitals that participate in Medical-Legal Partnerships for people with cancer make $16 for every dollar paid to lawyers. That’s because lawyers can appeal health insurance denials, and/or help patients enroll in Medicaid—unblocking payments hospitals would never otherwise receive, and freeing up oncology staff time.1 II. Medical-Legal Partnerships: The Tanya Project is a Medical-Legal Partnership. MLPs are designed to provide holistic and coordinated advocacy to patients by training healthcare providers to spot legal issues and refer patients to onsite attorney colleagues. The Tanya Project is the San Francisco Bay area’s only MLP that addresses the specific needs of women who have or had cancer. A survey of patients served by a MLP program for people with cancer in New York City found that: - 75% of patients interviewed said legal assistance reduced stress, - 50% stated that legal assistance they received also benefited their families, - 45% reported that legal assistance improved their financial position, and - 30% said legal advice helped them adhere to their medical treatment and not miss medical appointments.2 III. The Tanya Project’s Free Services: A. Educational Workshops: For Healthcare Providers to: teach oncology staff about the MLP model, how to screen for common legal problems, and encourage them to refer patients who need free legal advice to our Supervising Attorney. For Women With Cancer to: provide free information on a variety of topics. Workshops are offered at treatment centers and nonprofits that serve women with cancer, including how to obtain/maintain health insurance (especially Medicaid), how to write Advance Health Care Directives and POLSTs, how to request reasonable accommodations to return to work and/or maintain housing, and how to appeal insurance denials of expensive cancer medications. Free zoom trainings are also available during the coronavirus pandemic. B. Group Legal Clinics: Free on-site classes at treatment centers and nonprofits that serve women with cancer enable one attorney to help small groups of women write simple legal documents, such as Durable Powers of Attorney, Advance Health Care Directives, and simple wills. C. Brief Service: Free telephone consultations enable our clients to get individualized legal advice without having to travel to the attorney. Because cancer patients are often on pain medications and unable to take notes, upon the caller’s request, each consult is followed by a legal opinion letter or email which summarizes the advice and legal strategy offered, provides citations to relevant laws, and includes self- help materials and free referrals for further assistance. D. Legal Referrals: Women who need extensive individual representation or help with areas of law not covered by our free attorneys are referred to free/low-cost legal service providers. E. Self-Help Legal Publications: Free “know your rights” materials, as well as basic templates users can download to create simple legal documents, including Advance Health Care Directives, Physicians Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, Durable Powers of Attorney, requests for reasonable accommodation in employment and housing, tips for appealing a health insurance treatment/drug denial, and more. Our publications cover both federal and California state law, so are relevant to users nationwide. IV. Michele Magar's Bio: Our Founder/Supervising Attorney is a cancer survivor, print and broadcast civil rights reporter, and an Oakland- based lawyer with two specialties: advancing the civil and human rights of people with disabilities, and fair housing (for all protected classes, including people with disabilities). Before graduating from Stanford Law School in 1995, Michele worked for 14 years as an award-winning investigative reporter covering civil rights, and was the first national news reporter to specialize in disability rights coverage during her tenure at National Public Radio. Ten years after law school, she traveled to the United Nations to help draft and lobby for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (since ratified by more than 175 nations). Without funding, she organized the first Congressional briefing on the new treaty. Michele is proud to be a former staff attorney with Bay Area Legal Aid and Disability Rights California. She uses a mix of law, journalism, publicity, coalition-building, legislative advocacy, public education, and community organizing to protect and advance civil and human rights. Michele has native fluency in French and is proficient in Spanish. You can reach her at TanyaProjectMLP@gmail.com 1. The Cancer Cliff, 2015. Available at: http://nylag.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/NCLSN-White-Paper-FINAL-8.6.15.pdf 2. Id.