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After losing their Janesville home of 28 years over the winter, Karen Kuffer and her brother Gary Kuffer have been living in a local motel. They've got a place to sleep, a shower, and a tiny fridge to store water and a few groceries though they have no stove to prepare meals. "We're doing better than we could be. Could be living in our car," Karen Kuffer, 77, told The 69蹤獲.
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IMAGE CAPTION: U.S. policies targeting homelessness revive coercive practices with no proven benefits - while global models show non-coercion methods succeed and lower costs. | As U.S. policies increasingly promote involuntary psychiatric commitment for homeless populations following a July 2025 executive order, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) warns that expanding coercive psychiatry violates human rights and lacks proven benefits.[1] CCHR calls for ending involuntary commitment and forced treatment, urging adoption of rights-respecting alternatives already succeeding internationally.
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Books on homelessness, the U.S. Census and ancient India are among this years winners of prizes handed out by the J. Anthony Lukas Project, named for the late author and investigative journalist. The winners were announced Tuesday by the projects administrators, the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Jeff Hobbs Seeking Shelter won the Lukas Book Prize. The Mark Lynton Prize for history was given to William Dalrymples The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The awards were established in 1998.
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JANESVILLE Art therapy, Kris Bakke says is mind, body and soul. All three at the same time. Your mind is paying attention to the instruction and detail, your body is doing the work, and the soul part ties into either scripture or a thought.
Mark Hutchins, who is currently staying at GIFTS Men's shelter and participates in art therapy classes there, shows a photograph he took last …
Mark Hutchins, who is currently staying at GIFTS Men's shelter and participates in art therapy classes there, shows a photograph he took last …
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JANESVILLE Representatives of downtown Janesville businesses, the downtown Business Improvement District, Janesville Police Department and organizations that serve downtown homeless people gathered Tuesday to talk about how to best manage the presence of homeless people downtown.
JANESVILLE The 69蹤獲s local volunteer of the week is Beau Gilmore, who leads devotion at Gifts Mens Shelter in Janesville.
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JANESVILLE The coming winter and early spring could be a grim time for the poorest of Rock Countys residents who are in less-than-stable housing situations.
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Joes finally got his decrepit pop-up camper and beat-to-death 1996 GMC pickup truck off Janesville city property. So thats all ironed out. For now. So, too, is a year of housing arranged for him, thanks to a local nonprofit.