Medical-legal Partnerships to Prevent Evictions and Homelessness Among Veterans
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interventional
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1 country
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Brief 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.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
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participants targeted
Target at P50-P75 for not_applicable
Started Feb 2022
Longer than P75 for not_applicable
1 active site
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
June 4, 2021
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
June 11, 2021
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
February 1, 2022
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
March 1, 2026
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
October 30, 2026
ExpectedNovember 26, 2025
November 1, 2025
4.1 years
June 4, 2021
November 20, 2025
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Housing questionnaire change
80 percent days in own place or 45-day increase in own place from baseline
Past 90 days. Collected at baseline, 3, 6, 12 months
Secondary Outcomes (2)
BASIS-R
Past week. Collected at baseline, 3,6, 12 months
The Yale Citizenship Scale
Present moment. Collected at baseline, 3, 6, 12 months
Study Arms (2)
Medical-legal partnership
EXPERIMENTALTreatment 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.
Referral to pro-bono lawyer
ACTIVE COMPARATORControl group will receive outside legal aid, i.e., control participants will be referred to pro-bono lawyers in the state.
Interventions
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.
Control group will receive outside legal aid, i.e., control participants will be referred to pro-bono lawyers in the state.
Eligibility Criteria
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
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
VA Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven Campus, West Haven, CT
West Haven, Connecticut, 06516-2770, United States
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Marc I. Rosen, MD
VA Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven Campus, West Haven, CT
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- FED
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
June 4, 2021
First Posted
June 11, 2021
Study Start
February 1, 2022
Primary Completion
March 1, 2026
Study Completion (Estimated)
October 30, 2026
Last Updated
November 26, 2025
Record last verified: 2025-11
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Shared Documents
- STUDY PROTOCOL
- Time Frame
- One year after study completion
- Access Criteria
- Upon completion of a data sharing agreement with the PI.
A de-identified, anonymized dataset will be created and shared.