Legal clinic

There are approximately 1,700 free medical clinics scattered across the United States. In 2008, free medical clinics treated more than 4 million uninsured patients with no federal money. Twelve hundred federally and state funded community health care centers treated 7 million patients. (http://www.friendshipmedicalclinic.org/about/benefit.html). Providing a person with a primary medical care home is the foundation for healthy living. Without diagnosis and management of mild to moderate chronic diseases

is imperative that the villagers be provided an effective legal assistance in their village itself. As of now it is also a fact that most of the legal services institutions are located in urban and semi-urban areas which position puts the villagers at a disadvantage. To overcome this hurdle a Scheme of Legal Aid Clinics has been prepared to provide legal relief easily to the indigent and backward sections of our society. Legal Aid Clinics on the lines of primary health centres wherever a doctor and

I am an intern at the Domestic Violence Legal Clinic, located on the first floor of the Domestic Violence Courthouse of Chicago at 555 W Harrison St. The clinic offers free civil legal assistance to low-income victims of domestic violence. I have been interning at the clinic since August 28, 2017 for 15-20 hours a week. I originally intended to intern on Mondays and Fridays from 8:30AM-4:30 PM, but due to holidays and instances in which the clinic was closed on Fridays, I now also intern on Wednesdays

session before the legal clinic goes live next week. This session focused on a quick revision of material we covered last year in our Property Law and Land Law models; the information gathered here will aid me in identifying and researching issues, and thus enabling me to write my letters of advice. First, we were introduced to the different types of homeless people; these being street homeless, hidden homeless, threatened homeless, and emergency homeless. Being in the housing clinic, it is possible

Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit organization which provides affordable reproductive care, currently receives government funding. Those in need of affordable health care can go to PPFA for STI treatment, pap smears, and prevention of unintended pregnancies. The problem arises in PPFA’s prevention of unintended pregnancies, particularly abortion. But abortion is not the only issue the public finds in the organization. The public has recently questioned PPFA’s integrity and motives as their controversial

oral and written form. whose role was to provide practical legal advice to low-income clients. The clinic that I volunteer at is the only one in the program that can provide such a service in Mandarin as well as Cantonese in addition to English. Because there were often more clients making appointments than clinicians available, I was often required to take several files during my clinic hours that span across a wide variety of legal issues and work on them concurrently. Doing so has not only taught

gateway meeting my goal of working for a nonprofit. I traveled to and audited a variety of nonprofit and government organizations across the United States. In 2013, I obtained my dream by becoming the Chief Financial Officer of a community health clinic. Going into the position, I could not help but be excited. I had the “save the world” mentality and bravado of a young business professional. The piece of the world I was saving was a five county area in Nebraska and

ended up deciding upon using three different clinics as my field sites: the Berkeley Free Clinic, the Suitcase General Clinic, and the Suitcase Youth/LGBTQ+ Clinic primarily due to their geographical proximity and because they were excellent examples of organizations which, despite their similarity in terms of services offered, have vastly different organizational structures and work cultures. The setting of my first field site, or the Berkeley Free Clinic, was a largely run-down basement area under

The Puerto Rican Family Institute clinic in Brooklyn is currently undergoing a new organizational structure due to a high turnover of recent employees. The previous director for the clinic had been in the same position for 25 years, and once she left, the structure started to decline. The new director, James Chavez, has been overseeing the clinic for a year now, and the clinic has been evolving ever since. Due to such a drastic change in roles, the clinic has been using a lateral organizational structure

The Primary Care Clinic January 31, 2015 HSA 300 - Health Services Organization Management Professor Janet Kaplan The Primary Care Clinic Many important factors go into play when running a healthcare organization. I plan to discuss some of the key components that have influenced the development of this health care facility. The clinic mission statement will be stated and addressed to clear up any confusion. I plan to identify the three performance measures I would use to measure the clinic’s