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Harmonizing Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs with a Novel Medical-Legal Partnership for Equity in the Social and Structural Determinants of Health – the HVIP-MLP Model
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Carly Loughran (she/her) is a Community Partner with Legal Aid Chicago as part of the Harmonizing Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs with a Novel Medical-Legal Partnership for Equity in the Social and Structural Determinants of Health project team at University of Chicago, and is a member of the Community Engagement Workgroup.
Carly is an Equal Justice Works Fellowship Attorney at Legal Aid Chicago. Carly worked to establish Recovery Legal Care, a Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) between Legal Aid Chicago and UChicago Medicine’s Trauma Center that provides civil legal support to survivors of firearm violence. Prior to joining the Recovery Legal Care team, Carly worked for Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance, an academic Medical-Legal Partnership that uses the MLP model to support vulnerable populations, including victims of firearm violence. Carly spent three years researching how the MLP model could help stabilize this population after injury. Carly received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Public Interest Fellow and the Community Outreach Director of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, and her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, where she was a Glynn Family Honors Scholar.
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