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Medical-legal Partnerships to Prevent Evictions and Homelessness Among Veterans

NCT04924088 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 85

Last updated 2026-05-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Medical-legal partnership

Treatment group will receive the MLP intervention through the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center (CVLC) in partnership with the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. The MLP intervention can be categorized into seven activity components: initial in-person and subsequent in-person interviews; discussions with clients by phone; research and review of relevant documents; consultations with clinicians or other attorneys; interactions with opposing parties; time appearing at formal hearings; and travel time.

BEHAVIORAL

Referral to pro-bono lawyer

Control group will receive outside legal aid, i.e., control participants will be referred to pro-bono lawyers in the state.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Connecticut Veterans Legal Center

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Marc I. Rosen, MD · VA Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven Campus, West Haven, CT

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-01
Primary Completion
2026-03-01
Completion
2026-10-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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