The Health Law Partnership (HeLP)
is a medical legal partnership between healthcare providers and lawyers created to improve the health and wellbeing of low-income children and their families by addressing multiple factors affecting children’s health. HeLP is also an educational partnership designed to promote public health through teaching and learning.
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ABOUT OUR WORK
Through our partnership, HeLP serves patients of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta [also a 501(c)(3) organization] and their families who live at or below 200% of the U.S. federal poverty level. While more than half of Children’s patients meet this criterion and are insured through Medicaid or self-pay as indigent, more than one-third of HeLP’s families live below 100% of the federal poverty level.
HeLP assists these families with civil legal problems, including those related to public benefits, family stability, housing, education and disability benefits.
Our priorities
LEGAL SERVICES
Address health-harming legal needs in order to improve health outcomes for low-income children.
EDUCATION
Foster in students the knowledge, understanding, and cooperative spirit between the healthcare and legal professions.
ADVOCACY
Improve low-income children’s access to healthcare and the conditions that affect their health.
EVALUATION
& RESEARCH
Be a model program for effective, interdisciplinary community collaborations that seek to promote the public’s health.
Georgia ranks 43rd in the nation on children’s health based on a variety of key factors affecting children’s health such as poverty, low birthweights, mortality rates, teen births, and obesity.
Source: Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2023 KIDS COUNT® Data Book.
WHERE TO FIND HeLP
HeLP has offices on four Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta campuses: Scottish Rite, Hughes Spalding, Center for Advanced Pediatrics and Arthur M. Blank Hospital.
HeLP’s main office is located on the campus of Children’s at Scottish Rite Hospital.
HeLP also provides services at the HeLP Legal Services Clinic at Georgia State University College of Law. This in-house legal clinic serves HeLP’s clients and provides clinical education to GSU law students and medical students from Emory and Morehouse School of Medicine.
DIRECT CONTACT
Office: 404-785-2005
Fax: 404-705-0010
MAIN OFFICE
Children’s at Scottish Rite
975 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 360
Atlanta, GA 30342-1600
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OTHER LOCATIONS
HeLP at Arthur M. Blank Hospital
Suite 02B223
2220 N Druid Hills Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
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HeLP at Children’s at Hughes Spalding
3rd Floor Annex
35 Jesse Hill Drive
Atlanta, GA 30303
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HeLP at Center for Advanced Pediatrics
2174 N. Druid Hills Rd., NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
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HeLP Legal Services Clinic
GSU College of Law
85 Park Place, Suite 105
Atlanta, GA 30303
Office: 404-413-9130
Fax: 404-413-9145
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