HOFLA Project

     Last week the entire class had to collaborate creating some posters for Heart of Florida Legal Aid Society, Inc., (HOFLA). They hired the clasd to create a series of posters for internal display and possibly for display throughout the community. HOFLA provides free legal services to low-income communities throughout the 10th Judicial Circuit of Florida, which includes Polk, Hardee, and Highlands counties. Their services include:

• Family Law -
  • Divorce where minor children are involved
  • Child Support
  • Paternity and Custody
• Domestic violence -
  • Representation for survivors seeking injunctions for protection and other civil relief
• Immigration Law -
  • Relief under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
  • U-Visas
  • T-Visas
  • Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
  • Other forms of humanitarian immigration assistance
• Pro se Legal Assistance
• Housing and Consumer Issues - ( For current clients, new clients will be referred to partner agencies)
  • Landlord Tenet 
  • Discrimination
  • Foreclosure Defense
  • Negotiations related to debt repayment

Clients who qualify pay no fees for attorneys or staff. To qualify, a client must financially be at or below 125% of the Federal Poverty Level Guideline and have limited assets.

HOFLA can help refer clients to a partner program for other legal services.

Offices: 550 E. Davidson St., Bartow, FL 33830 - (863) 519-5663, 430 South Commerce Avenue, Sebring, FL 33870 - (863) 402-6983.

HOFLA.org

FB: HOFLA_Legal

X (formerly Twitter)@hoflalegal

Hofla was founded in 1968 and is funded by government and private grants from:

• The Florida Bar Foundation
• United Way of Central Florida
• Polk County
• Hardee County
• Highland County
• Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Florida Department of Children and Families
• and others
  

        MY DESIGN FOR HOFLA

    The series of posters should stand together as an obvious group when presented togeher, or stand as compelling messages when displayed individually.

The intended audience is victims who are in need of legal assistance. Although the audience could be the elderly, the more pressing audience is 18 - 48, younger than most of the client's current marketing material. The client would like to make the posters more modern and speak to an elevated audience (ie, showing respect for the individual regardless of circumstances, and not speaking down to or belittling the audience because of their current situation). The goal for the series was to encourage victims to reach out and get the legal representation they need and to raise the awareness of free legal services available to people in need.

The client was happy with all the pieces that we designed and did look like one individual composed them.