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member, or significant other for some victims to receive civil orders of protection against their abusers, which subject the trafficker to criminal liability for attempting to re-recruit or threaten the victim as they are trying to rebuild their lives.44When trafficking victims are also undocumented immigrants legal remedies exist to keep fear of being prosecuted or deported from preventing them from seeking help. The T-Visa and U-Visa were both created by the Trafficking Victims Protections Act of 200045 and can help victims of human trafficking establish a life in the United States.46 Some victims of human trafficking have also recently been able to obtain asylum, and an eventual pathway to lawful permanent residence and citizenship through the U and T visas.47However, all of these remedies require the victim to be able to testify about their experiences, an act which is often made incredibly difficult from the trauma they have received. It is important for lawyers to be able to recognize symptoms of psychological distress and trauma and to refer their clients to mental health practitioners when possible.48This is an area where Medical Legal Partnerships have the potential to be uniquely effective. Lawyers and healthcare professionals can work together to help meet the medical, psychological, and legal needs of trafficking victims as they seek to recover from their trauma and rebuild their lives. Health professionals can also provide lawyers with training that will help them to recognize and be sensitive to psychological trauma.In order to effectively help clients who have been victimized by human trafficking, lawyers must build rapport and trust. Sometimes victims have difficulty trusting attorneys and associate them with the government, which their traffickers have conditioned them to fear. 49 If the victim trusts their doctors and nurses, that trust may transfer more easily to an attorney who is known by their healthcare practitioners and works in tandem with them.Medical professionals and lawyers also need to work together to give the victim their best chance at obtaining one of these legal remedies. Medical evidence is often crucial to obtaining these visas. Lawyers can train clinicians to draft letters and affidavits about their patients, and to effectively document medical histories of victimization of violence.50In addition to helping individual victims and providing mutual training, healthcare professionals and legal advocates can also work together to advocate for change on a larger scale. In 2010 in Cleveland the local medical legal partnership approached the city council asking them to pass a resolution supporting the U-Visa program. Before this, the council members had never heard of U-Visas. After the resolution was passed, the council and mayor understood the importance of U-Visas. The medical legal partnership also educated the public about U-Visas, helping to get the word out about this form of assistance to undocumented victims of violent crime.51A Medical Legal Partnership was created in 2011 between Neighborhood Health Services (NHS), a non-profit clinic that assists low-income and uninsured members of the Tallahassee community, the Florida State University College of Law’s Public Interest Law Center (PILC) and FSU’s College of Medicine. Doctors, nurses, and therapists at NHS refer patients that they believe may have legal needs that are affecting their health to PILC, where law students under my supervision work to determine and address their legal needs. So far the most common legal need has been assistance with a Social Security Disability application or appeal, but in almost all cases there has been one unexpected but very real benefit to the patients/clients. Healthcare professionals have too many patients to spend thesometimes several hours talking with and listening to patients/clients that law students have available. The student attorneys also often gather medical records from many sources for the patients/clients, giving them broader pictures of the issues they are facing. These extended conversations and research have helped the students identify and address issues facing the clients that otherwise might not have come to light for their treating physicians.The Medical Legal Partnership between NHS and PILC is still fairly new and we