See Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine’s presentation
Dr Tessa Boyd Caine, the CEO of Health Justice Australia, spoke about how seeing a lawyer can be good for your health and even save lives.
Her work forms partnerships that recognise that people with legal/justice problems are also experiencing underlying intersecting health and social problems.
One example would be a lawyer advising a new mum about the risk factors for a child protection notification and encouraging her into the antenatal program at the hospital or her partner into the drug, alcohol and mental health service.
“Imagine what happens if we turn the child protection system from one that identifies risk and removes children from their families to one that tackles the health, legal and social problems that give rise to that risk in the first place.