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Children's Health Advocacy Project Receives Funding
ST. LOUIS (SLFP.com), February 17, 2009 - Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM) has received a three-year, $573,601 grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health to establish the St. Louis Children's Health Advocacy Project (SCHAP).
The grant will allow LSEM to form a new medical-legal partnership with SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers, Inc. and the Saint Louis University School of Law Legal Clinic.
"We want to thank the Missouri Foundation for Health for their important and generous grant," said Dan Glazier, Executive Director and General Counsel for LSEM. "This new medical-legal partnership is truly a unique project that will provide vulnerable children and low-income families at these St. Louis area medical centers with legal services to improve and enhance their health."
Under the St. Louis Children's Health Advocacy Project grant, physicians and other health care professionals will screen children and families who will receive a wide range of civil legal assistance in areas such as:
- Public benefits including Medicaid and food stamps
- Enforcement of school district obligations to provide special education services
- Housing, including issues such as lead paint and utilities problems
- Guardianships to facilitate the provision of health care services to children lacking parental involvement
The St. Louis Children's Health Advocacy Project will train health care providers at Cardinal Glennon and St. Louis Children's Hospital about legal issues that often affect low-income families. Project advocates will work with health care professionals to train attorneys and law students about the medical needs of client families.
CHAP will also provide advocacy on systemic issues adversely affecting the health of low-income children by developing partnerships with project collaborators, health care professionals and child advocates.
"This is truly a perfect project for our law students because they will be providing their legal services and knowledge of health care law while gaining a real-world understanding of how medical issues affect disadvantaged children and their communities," says Jesse A. Goldner, the John D. Valentine Professor of Law and Professor of Pediatrics at Saint Louis University.
In 2005, Goldner formed a small group of lawyers and physicians from Saint Louis University School of Law, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine to develop a project that improves access to existing medical programs for disadvantaged St. Louis children by enforcing health care laws and regulations. The CHAP grant is the end result of these efforts.
Archived St. Louis Community Health News:
 November is Missouri Family Health History Month
Tweens and Teens Double Use of Diabetes Drugs
Missouri Receives Grants to Benefit Mothers, Babies
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Brings Thousands to Downtown St. Louis for the 10th Annual Event
As Temperatures Heat Up, Cool Down St. Louis Receives Major Assistance from AmerenUE
Long Term Care Costs in Missouri Increased as Much as Three Times National Average
Washington University in St. Louis and AstraZeneca to Collaborate Alzheimer's Research
New Report Estimates 10 Million Baby Boomers Will Develop Alzheimer's Disease in the United States
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