Our Mission
The Health Justice Project (“HJP”) strives to overcome the social, legal, and systemic barriers that prevent long-term health and stability for low-income individuals and families in Chicago. 

The Clinic aims to:

• Enable law students to provide highly effective quality representation to low-income clients in order to resolve the legal needs that underlie, exacerbate, or could result in health disparity.
• Provide law students with an intensive, challenging education in the fundamentals of legal practice, systemic advocacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration necessary for them to become effective problem-solvers and socially responsible, service-oriented attorneys.

Our Goals
The goal of the Health Justice Project is to resolve the legal and social issues that underlie, exacerbate, or could result in health disparities by:

1. Providing highly effective quality legal representation to low-income patients of affiliated community health centers.
2. Collaborating with other community members, advocates, and stakeholders in order to identify and eradicate the social, legal, and systemic barriers that cause health problems among low-income individuals and families from an interdisciplinary and multifaceted approach.
3. Training and mentoring students of law, medicine, social work, and public health in order to create the next stewards of public health and society.
4. Creating public policy to invigorate our community to overcome barriers to health.