In May 2026, VAAP began convening leaders and legal advocates from Association of Africans Living in Vermont (AALV), Vermont Afghan Alliance (VAA), Vermont Legal Aid (VLA), and Vermont Law and Graduate School's Center for Justice Reform Clinic (CJRC) for a pilot VT Immigration Legal Services Roundtable to strategize on how we can better coordinate quality, accessible, and timely immigration legal intake processes statewide. Updates coming soon!

For comparison to the medical-legal partnership model, which integrates legal services and expertise into health care settings to address legal needs that affect health, well-being, and access to care, see The MLP Model, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, available at https://www.medical-legalpartnership.org/about-mlp; Jonathan Owen Steen, Lawyers on the Healthcare Team: Why Medical-Legal Partnerships Matter, American Bar Association (June 15, 2026), available at https://www.americanbar.org/groups/tort_trial_insurance_practice/resources/tortsource/2026-spring/lawyers-healthcare-team-why-medical-legal-partnerships-matter/; Medical-Legal Partnerships: Treating Legal Needs to Improve Health, American Bar Association (Fall 2017), available at https://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_services/publications/dialogue/volume/20/fall-2017/pro-bono-medical-legal/; Medical-Legal Partnership Project, Vermont Legal Aid, available at https://www.vtlegalaid.org/legal-projects/medical-legal-partnership; DULCE, Lamoille Family Center, available at https://www.lamoillefamilycenter.org/our-programs/dulce/. 

For public context regarding the Community Immigration Lawyering Initiative and its expansion of immigration legal services into rural areas of Vermont, see Connor Ullathorne, New Initiative to Increase Number of Immigration Lawyers, WCAX (Feb. 8, 2026, updated Feb. 9, 2026), available at https://www.wcax.com/2026/02/08/new-initiative-increase-number-immigration-lawyers/; Greta Solsaa, New Immigration Legal Services Expand into Southern and Central Vermont, VTDigger (Jan. 29, 2026), available at https://vtdigger.org/2026/01/29/new-immigration-legal-services-expand-into-southern-and-central-vermont/; Vermont Legal Aid, Vermont Asylum Assistance Project Boost Immigration Lawyers, Burlington Free Press (Jan. 29, 2026), available at https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/vermont/2026/01/29/vermont-legal-aid-vermont-asylum-assistance-project-boost-immigration-lawyers-courts-access-citizen/88396400007/; VLA + Vermont Asylum Assistance Project Launch Immigration Community Immigration Lawyering Initiative, Vermont Legal Aid (Jan. 2026), available at https://www.vtlegalaid.org/news/vla-and-vaap-partnership.