Participating in a news conference at City Covenant Church and Mission, Detroit on Aug. 29 to announce the Brightmoor Health Outreach Collaborative are (left to right) Paul Propson, executive director, Covenant Community Care; Deierdre L. Weir, president and CEO, Legal Aid and Defender Association; U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-13th District; David Wood, MD (right), executive vice president and chief medical officer of Beaumont Health System; and Semmeal Thomas, pastor of City Covenant Church. (Photo by John Meiu)
Regina Daniels Thomas (left), deputy chief counsel-broad based advocacy of Legal Aid and Defender Association’s Civil Law Group, greets a prospective client at City Covenant Church and Mission, Detroit Aug. 29 on behalf of the Brightmoor Health Outreach Collaborative. (Photo by John Meiu)
David Wood (right), executive vice president and chief medical officer of Beaumont Health System, greets Deierdre L. Weir, president and CEO of Legal Aid and Defender Association, at a news conference at City Covenant Church, Detroit Aug. 29 to announce the Brightmoor Health Outreach Collaborative. (Photo by John Meiu)
Gathered at the legal assistance office at City Coventry Mission, Detroit on Aug. 29 are (left to right) attorney Karen Luther with Legal Aid for Children; Regina Daniels Thomas, deputy chief counsel-broad based advocacy of Legal Aid and Defender Association’s (LAD’s) Civil Law Group; Linda Caurdy-Bess, manager of medical social work at Beaumont Royal Oak; and Michele Hall, deputy chief counsel of LAD’s Civil Law Group. (Photo by John Meiu)
Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc. (LAD) is providing legal services to the city’s Brightmoor neighborhood as a partner in the Brightmoor Health Outreach Collaborative (BHOC).
Brightmoor is a four-square-mile area in northwest Detroit created in the early 1920s as a planned community of inexpensive housing for migrants, most of whom worked in the automobile industry. Once a thriving working-class neighborhood, it is now one of the city’s poorest.
Led by Beaumont Health System (BHS), the BHOC was recently launched at the City Covenant Church and Mission, 13624 Stout St., in cooperation with the Brightmoor Alliance (http://www.brightmooralliance.org) to provide medical, dental and legal services to the neighborhood.
The $268,000 project is supported by a three-year grant from the Jewish Fund and corporate donations from Comerica Charitable Foundation.
Other partners in BHOC are Covenant Community Care, a Detroit-based health care provider, and student volunteers from Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
BHS doctors and nurses are providing adult and pediatric medical care and screenings. LAD staff attorneys are providing legal services with the help of the Cooley students and pro bono attorneys from the private bar.
BHS partnered with LAD to create the Legal Aid for Children and Families program at Beaumont Children’s Hospital in 2009. The free legal assistance program is designed to improve the health and welfare of low-income children and their families by addressing the underlying causes of poor health among children.
LAD is providing legal services through the BHOC as part of its broad based advocacy program.
“We welcome this opportunity to expand our partnership with Beaumont and the other participants to help the Brightmoor community,” LAD President and CEO Deierdre L. Weir said.
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