Recovery Legal Care Clinical Trial

Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs (HVIPs) affiliated with trauma centers in the US often focus on individual behavior modification for reduction in re-victimization. There is a lack of reproducible evidence that has demonstrated effectiveness, given the exclusion of addressing inequities in the Social and Structural Determinants of Health (SSDOH), often the root causes of violent injury and preventable homicide. The study investigators created a Medical Legal Partnership (MLP) to partner with an existing HVIP. This novel program offers beside legal assistance to address the SSDOH. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the HVIP-MLP program in improving perceived stress, violence-related outcomes, legal needs, health-related quality of life, and PTSD symptoms.

NCT Number	NCT06618794
Lead Sponsor	University of Chicago Collaborators: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Conditions	Firearm Injury, Economic Problems, Injury Traumatic
Enrollment	500 participants
Start Date	2025-02-10
Primary Completion	2027-08-31 (estimated)
Study Completion	2027-08-31 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-06-08