Legal-Aid Program to Expand Nationally
April 10, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
A program in Boston that enlists lawyers to provide free legal aid to poor families in need of medical care is gearing up to expand nationwide, reports The Boston Globe.
The program, developed by the Boston Medical Center, has received $2.7-million in grants from organizations such as the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation so it can set up legal-aid efforts nationwide.
The program was developed by doctors who were frustrated that medical solutions alone were not solving the problems of poor children; they realized that some of the health-care problems were caused by legal problems. For instance, some children were malnourished because their parents were not getting the government benefits they were entitled to receive.
