Allies not Adversaries: Teaching Health Care Providers, Lawyers, and Social Workers to Support Individuals with Criminal-Legal Needs

Providence, RI US
May 5, 2023

Live in person at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Live Streamed via Zoom Meeting Platform

Overview

Involvement in the criminal legal system is one of the most fundamental upstream determinants of health, often impacting other crucial determinants of health like access to stable housing and employment. Fortunately, a model for helping patients successfully navigate legal issues that negatively affect their health does exist in medicine: the medical–criminal legal partnership (MCLP). This conference will teach healthcare providers, lawyers, social workers, community health workers, and others how they can work together to advocate for individuals enmeshed with the criminal-legal system and thereby improve health outcomes.

 

Target Audience

This activity is designed for physicians and lawyers in Rhode Island and nationwide interested in working collaboratively to improve health outcomes and prevent re-incarceration for patients involved in the criminal-legal system. 

Learning Objectives

After participating in this activity, the learner should be better able to: 

  • Explain the value and purpose of inter-professional collaboration between criminal defense lawyers and healthcare providers - as well as social workers, peers, and case managers
  • Identify common and ethically complex barriers to this collaboration
  • Define the roles and responsibilities for criminal defense lawyers, healthcare providers, social workers, peers, and case managers in a medical-legal partnership
  • Integrate recovery science as a paradigm for understanding the link between substance use, mental health, and criminal activities

 

This activity is funded in part by The Galkin Fund

Additional Information

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 4.00 Attendance
    Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance stating this program is designated for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. This credit is accepted by the AAPA and AANP.
  • 6.00 Participation
  • 4.00 Social Work
    This activity has been approved by the NASW, Rhode Island Chapter.
Course opens: 
02/01/2023
Course expires: 
06/30/2023
Event starts: 
05/05/2023 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
05/05/2023 - 5:00pm EDT
Cost:
$30.00
12:00 - 12:30 pm
Registration and Lunch
12:30 - 2:00 pm
A New Medical-Legal Partnership: Centering Criminal Legal Needs
Sarah Martino, MPH
Catherine Trimbur, MD
Liz Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA
Anthony Thigpen
This session will include:
- The history of MCLPs, how the physician-public defender partnership started in RI, and the importance of interprofessional collaboration
- Roles and responsibilities of each profession in the partnership
- An explanation of process and necessary components
- The use of case examples for an interactive exercise in breakout groups
2:00 - 2:10 pmBreak
2:10 - 3:10 pm
Recovery Science as a Foundation for Collaboration
Corrie Vilsaint, PhD
This session will include:
- Recovery science experts dispelling myths and assumptions about substance use disorder
- Tangible pieces of information to take away and use in your letters
- A summary of 30 years of research by health equity
- The recovery support services model and considerations
3:10 - 3:20 pmBreak
3:20 - 4:30 pm

 

Case-Based Interprofessional Discussion Panel
Facilitators: Mike Dilauro, Esq and Rahul Vanjani, MD, MSc
Sarah Potter, Esq
Jeremy Spiegel, Esq
Hon. Melissa R. Dubose, RI District Court Judge
Hon. Luis M. Matos, RI Superior Court Judge
Justin Berk, MD, MPH, MBA, CCHP-P, FASAM
Kerin Hagan, MSW
Landon Hacker
This session will include:
- Three robust case examples
- Each panelist will discuss how they would address the case and move forward with it
4:30 - 5:00 pm
Audience Question & Answer
 
 
 
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
222 Richmond Street
Providence, RI 02912
United States

HYBRID FORMAT

This event will take place both: 

  • Live in person at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 222 Richmond Street, Providence, RI & 
  • Live Streamed via Zoom 

You must pre-register for either format

PARKING 
Parking is available in the parking garage, located on the corner of Richmond and Elm Streets. Enter from Eddy or Elm Street. 

Speakers
Justin Berk, MD, MPH, MBA, CCHP-P, FASAM
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Lifespan Physician Group | Providence, RI
 
Michael A. DiLauro, Esq.
Owner/Manager
The Just Criminal Justice Group, LLC | Warwick, RI
 
Hon. Melissa R. Dubose
Associate Judge
State of Rhode Island | Providence, RI
 
Landon Hacker, Esq.
Maida Public Interest Fellow, Medical-legal Partnership
Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers | Camden NJ
 
Kerin Hagan, MSW
Social Services Caseworker
Office of the Rhode Island Public Defender | Providence, RI
 
Sara Martino, MPA
Deputy Director
Center for Health and Justice Transformation | Providence, RI
 
Hon. Luis M. Matos
Associate Justice
RI Superior Court | Providence, RI 
 
Sarah A. Potter, Esq.
Assistant Public Defender
Office of the Rhode Island Public Defender | Providence, RI
 
Jeremy S. Spiegel, Esq.
Lecturer-in-Law
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Civil Practice Clinic
Supervising Attorney
Medical-Legal Partnership, Camden Coalition/Rutgers Law School
Principal
Law Office of Jeremy Spiegel | Camden, NJ
 
Anthony Thigpen
Community Health Worker/Peer Recovery Specialist
Lifespan Transitions Clinic | Providence, RI 
 
Liz Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA
Associate Professor, Medical Science
Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Associate Professor, Health Services, Policy and Practice
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University | Providence, RI
 
M. Catherine Trimbur, MD, MPH
Internal Medicine
Addiction Medicine
Palliative Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University | Providence, RI
 
Rahul Vanjani, MD, MSc (Course Chair)
Medical Director
Amos House
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University | Providence, RI
 
Corrie L. Vilsaint, PhD
Recovery Research Institute, Center of Addiction Medicine
Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA
 
Planning Committee
Michael A. DiLauro, Esq.
Owner/Manager
The Just Criminal Justice Group, LLC | Warwick, RI
 
Meghan Flanagan
CME Coordinator
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University | Providence, RI
 
Zachary Gross, BA
Project Coordinator
Center for Health and Justice Transformation | Providence, RI
 
Kerin Hagan, MSW
Social Services Caseworker
RI Public Defender | Providence, RI
 
Jennifer Maloney
Assistant Director, Office of CME
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University | Providence, RI
 
Sara Martino, MPA
Deputy Director
Center for Health and Justice Transformation | Providence, RI
 
Maria Sullivan
Director, Office of CME
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University | Providence, RI
 
Liz Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA
Associate Professor, Medical Science
Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Associate Professor, Health Services, Policy and Practice
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University | Providence, RI
 
Rahul Vanjani, MD, MSc (Course Chair)
Medical Director
Amos House
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University | Providence, RI

Accreditation

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education.

CME for Physicians 
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • This activity qualifies for 4.0 hours of continuing medical education on the Rhode Island Department of Health's public health topic of cultural awareness.

Continuing Legal Education 
Subject to Supreme Court Rule IV.3, this program has been approved by the MCLE Commission for a maximum of 6.0 credit hours including 1.0 hours of credit in ethics. This program has also been approved for credit towards re-certification of court appointed counsel. This program also satisfies 6.0 hours of the CLE requirement for criminal case panels in the District, Superior, and Supreme Courts.

Social Work Continuing Education

The above program has been approved in accordance with the Regulations of the Rhode Island Social Work Board of Licensure.

  • 4.0 CEs in Professional Ethics

Available Credit

  • 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 4.00 Attendance
    Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance stating this program is designated for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. This credit is accepted by the AAPA and AANP.
  • 6.00 Participation
  • 4.00 Social Work
    This activity has been approved by the NASW, Rhode Island Chapter.

Price

Cost:
$30.00
There are no more spaces available for this course.

If you are registering to participate VIRTUALLY, please do so here:

 

 

If anyone needs a scholarship in order to attend, please email Zachary Gross:  ZGross@lifespan.org

This activity is funded in part by The Galkin Fund

 

Hybrid Format

This activity will take place live, in person at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island

A link to view a live stream will also be available to those who register in advance, for nationwide off-site participation