Medical-legal Partnerships to Prevent Evictions and Homelessness Among Veterans
Running, not enrolling · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Homelessness, Mental Health
In brief
The legal team in medical-legal partnerships works with healthcare providers to improve their clients' lives. It is unknown whether this approach is better than providing usual legal services, with no special emphasis on non-legal matters and no particular collaboration with healthcare providers. The investigators propose to randomly assign 300 Veterans with housing-related legal problems to either legal help from a medical-legal partnership or help from lawyers in the community. The investigators will follow the randomized Veterans in this study for one year to determine if there is a difference between the two groups of Veterans in their housing situations and their mental health. The investigators will also interview Veterans in both groups about their experience of the legal services they have received.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04924088
- Run by
- VA Office of Research and Development
- People needed
- 85
- Starts
- 2022-02-01
- Expected to finish
- 2026-10-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-05-15
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Annual non-VA income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level
- Has a legal problem related to housing (e.g., eviction, rent arrears, housing violation)
- Engaged in a VA mental health or homeless program
- Able to provide informed consent
- Match income level CVLC uses for service eligibility
- Participants will be recruited from zip codes in which the team and CVLC will be recruiting from
You may not qualify if…
- Has been assigned a conservator of person
- Will not be able to complete follow-up assessments (e.g., moving away)
- Already receiving civil legal aid from Connecticut Veterans Legal Program
Where it is running
- VA Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven Campus, West Haven, CT — West Haven, Connecticut, United States
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