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LSC task force lays out clinic model: preregistration, VSO partnerships, and warm handoffs
Summary
LSC's Veterans Task Force describes a clinic model that preregisters veterans, recruits veteran service organizations and practice-specific attorneys, and provides warm handoffs to other providers to ensure holistic care and avoid retraumatization.
LSC's Veterans Task Force, created by the board in 2020, recommended a clinic model focused on building collaboration among legal aid providers, veteran service organizations (VSOs), and community partners. Stephanie Davis, deputy general counsel and ethics officer at LSC, said the model 'was intended to encourage clinic organizers to do 3 things' including preregistration, targeted recruitment of VSOs and attorneys, and warm handoffs to other service providers.
Davis described warm handoffs as 'more than just a referral' and explained they are 'a person to person connection in which the attorney making the handoff introduces the veteran to the receiving provider and, with the veteran's consent, shares the relevant information about the veteran's need that the provider will help them with.' The model is intended to reduce repeated retelling of trauma and to coordinate benefits, legal representation, and other services.
