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December 13, 2022, 2:35 p.m. CST
Members of the University of Chicago Medicine and Legal Aid Chicago’s Recovery Legal Care team. Photo from the University of Chicago Medicine’s Dec. 9 property release.
The University of Chicago Medicine is moving with Legal Aid Chicago to embed lawyers astatine the system’s trauma halfway successful Chicago’s Hyde Park vicinity to assistance victims of violence.
Two lawyers with Legal Aid Chicago volition beryllium embedded astatine the trauma halfway 2 days per week, according to a Dec. 9 property release and a story by WBEZ.
The program, called Recovery Legal Care, is funded chiefly done national grants. The archetypal twelvemonth volition absorption connected helping patients get nationalist benefits and economical stability. The anticipation is that it volition grow to assistance with housing, acquisition and employment, according to the property release.
The archetypal lawyer participating successful the program, Carly Loughran, meets with patients astatine their bedsides connected Thursdays. A 2nd lawyer was expected to articulation the programme this week.
Loughran thinks that lawyers tin physique relationships with patients that proceed aft their infirmary release—a clip committedness that extends beyond that of infirmary societal workers. Her radical tin entreaty denials of nationalist benefits, for example, and enactment arsenic an advocator for victims warring evictions.
“Lawyers are similar societal workers with teeth,” Loughran told WBEZ.
Loughran is moving arsenic a unit lawyer astatine Legal Aid Chicago arsenic portion of an Equal Justice Works two-year fellowship. Recovery Legal Care is an enlargement of an existing effort astatine UChicago Medicine called the Violence Recovery Program.
“Working with thousands of patients recovering from intentional violence, we’ve seen the carnal and affectional harm of firearm injuries,” said Franklin Cosey-Gay, manager of the Violence Recovery Program, successful a property release. “But what doesn’t ever get arsenic overmuch attention—but tin beryllium arsenic arsenic damaging—is the accent of things similar insecure housing, economical stableness and entree to nationalist benefits.”
The programme is receiving $2.6 cardinal successful backing from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Justice. If the programme is considered a success, it volition beryllium eligible for different $3.4 cardinal successful national grants.
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