{"id":7901,"date":"2018-12-12T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/12\/overcoming-legal-barriers\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:01:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:01:49","slug":"overcoming-legal-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/overcoming-legal-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming legal barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 18, Ben Waddell needed his parents, and they needed a legal lifeline. That is when Greenville\u2019s Medical Legal Partnership (MLP) stepped in to help out. The MLP, created in 2016 through a partnership with Furman, the Greenville Health System and South Carolina Legal Services, works to improve health outcomes for people living in poverty throughout the Upstate. Kirby Mitchell, a 1990 Furman graduate, is an attorney with South Carolina Legal Services who is designated fulltime to the Greenville MLP. You can read more in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2018\/11\/14\/greenville-mlp-medical-legal-partnership-helps-family-son-pallister-killian-syndrome\/1846155002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 18, Ben Waddell needed his parents, and they needed a legal lifeline. That is when Greenville\u2019s Medical Legal Partnership (MLP) stepped in to help out. The MLP, created in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}