{"id":101964,"date":"2018-01-11T12:41:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T19:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/veterans-outreach-center-moves-to-larger-facility\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T19:41:27","slug":"veterans-outreach-center-moves-to-larger-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/veterans-outreach-center-moves-to-larger-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Outreach Center moves to larger facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Veterans Outreach Center has moved into a new building at 432 N. Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Darla Sanders, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dav.org\/learn-more\/about-dav\/structure-of-dav\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disabled American Veterans senior vice commander<\/a> and the director of project outreach, said the organization had outgrown its old location years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders was complimentary of the community for helping the nonprofit raise funds to move into the new facility, nearly three times the size of the old location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community has always supported us, and we have been very fortunate that when we have fundraisers or drives the community is always wonderful with supporting us,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n<p>The organization moved on Jan. 2 and was operational by the third.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have 2,500 veterans in Montezuma County, and we serve about 200 a month,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may have to around some boxes, but we were taking care of our veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization will share the new space with the <a href=\"https:\/\/swindependence.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southwest Center for Independence<\/a>, an organization they have worked with, but will now be able to work in the same building.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders hopes to reach more veterans with a larger facility and more services available.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit offers a variety of services to veterans including speech therapy, post-traumatic stress disorder counseling and acupuncture. It also has a commons area with a free snack bar for veterans to socialize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes only another veteran can really understand another vet in need,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>space with Center for Independence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,13,184],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-veterans-affairs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101964"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}