{"id":400,"date":"2015-09-30T14:26:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veteranslawproject.org\/?p=400"},"modified":"2015-09-30T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T14:26:04","slug":"talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/2015\/09\/30\/talking-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/files\/2012\/04\/veterans-law-project-tara-sue.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/files\/2012\/04\/veterans-law-project-tara-sue.png\" alt=\"veterans law project tara sue\" width=\"1907\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defending Our Defenders<\/p>\n<p><b>The VLP Legal Boots on the Ground:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0employs <b><i>veteran <\/i><\/b>legal professionals,<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0provides emergency access providers;<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0offers in-house legal services and referrals at no cost;<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0reaches NH veterans and active duty service members \u00a0<b>around the world<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Legal Boots on the Ground provides legal services at <\/b><b><i>no cost <\/i><\/b><b>to NH Vets. \u00a0Donations accepted.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/files\/2015\/09\/Put-more-Legal-Boots-on-the-Ground.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/files\/2015\/09\/Put-more-Legal-Boots-on-the-Ground.png\" alt=\"Put more Legal Boots on the Ground\" width=\"690\" height=\"546\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Unmet legal needs are a major reason some Veterans become and remain homeless.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><b><i>4\u00a0 of the top 10 unmet needs affecting vets have a legal component including:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>eviction\/foreclosure prevention; <\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><i>child support issues; <\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><i>outstanding warrants\/fines; and <\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><i>restoring a driver\u2019s license<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/files\/2015\/09\/lb-case-work.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-401 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/files\/2015\/09\/lb-case-work.png\" alt=\"lb case work\" width=\"556\" height=\"828\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Of over 300 NH Veterans Served in 2015 by VLP\u00a0Legal Boots<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">80+ received direct legal consultation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">60+ veterans were consulted<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">100+ cases referred to pro bono attorneys<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">30+cases under review<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Visit www.Veteranslawproject.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending Our Defenders The VLP Legal Boots on the Ground: 1)\u00a0employs veteran legal professionals, 2)\u00a0provides emergency access providers; 3)\u00a0offers in-house legal services and referrals at no cost; 4)\u00a0reaches NH veterans and active duty service members \u00a0around the world Legal Boots on the Ground provides legal services at no cost to NH Vets. \u00a0Donations accepted. Unmet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","category-reports","category-vlp-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vfnh.org\/veteranslawproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}