Group Starting Program To Help Struggling Workers

Program To Help Rock County Residents Gain Employment

JANESVILLE, Wis. -- Wisconsin will be receiving $34 million in federal stimulus funds to help people find work and bring more jobs to the state, and more than $700,000 of that money will be spent helping Rock County residents.
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Evansville Students Take To Streets To Stop Abuse

Refuse 2 Bruise Second-Year Program In Evansville
Posted: 6:38 pm CDT May 30, 2010
EVANSVILLE, Wis. -- Although many people are involved in abusive relationships, a growing number of those people are teenagers.

Health officials said that it's estimated that one in three teens involved in relationships are involved in abusive relationships, whether that be verbal, emotional, physical or sexual. While both boys and girls can be victimized, for girls the abuse tends to be longer-lived, as studies show that 80 percent of girls stay in relationships after the first incident of violence, officials said.
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AWARE in Evansville

A Father figure for grown men
BELOIT — LaMar Pulliam remembers when he drove men to work in Whitewater and Fort Atkinson, then hurried home to Beloit to catch a few winks before he returned to take them home after their night shifts.

The men did not have driver’s licenses, so Pulliam literally drove the extra miles because he wanted to see them succeed.

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Driven to serve
Fontana's Kunes helps those who help others
DELAVAN — Gregg Kunes is good at selling cars.So five years ago, when God "pulled him over" and gave him a mission, Kunes was taken aback.

His comfort zone is among the shiny beauties on the showroom floor or in his wood-paneled office surrounded by photos of family and friends.

Rock County homeless count serves as eye-opener
JANESVILLE — All my life, I’ve been familiar with the long stretch of parking lots and big box stores that are Janesville’s Milton Avenue.
But that stretch looks a lot longer at 3 a.m. when it’s bitter cold and all you can think is, “What if we find someone in the next car? What if someone is hiding behind that Dumpster?”

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A cold night didn't stop volunteers from scouring Rock County for homeless people. Janesville Gazette reporter Ann Marie Ames was out with the volunteers. Kyle Geissler reports. You can read more in Friday's Janesville Gazette.

Police, community try to help panhandlers -- GazetteXtra

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But at the time, he felt he had no choice. He was homeless and jobless in Chicago, estranged from his family with nowhere to go. He felt like no one cared about him.

The face of homelessness in Janesville -- GazetteXtra

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Everything a local homeless man owns sits on a chair next to his bed at the GIFTS homeless shelter at the First Baptist Church in Janesville.

November 18 NEWS

Homeless Count
In Rock County

The Summer Youth Program employes approximately 30 youth in the Beloit Community. On the job training is provided while they revitalize and rehab existing homes in the Merrill Community, Beloit.

Group Starting Program To Help Struggling Workers

Refuse 2 Bruise Second-Year Program In Evansville Posted: 6:38 pm CDT May 30, 2010 EVANSVILLE, Wis. -- Although many people are involved in abusive relationships, a growing number of those people are teenagers.

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Podcast Episode

Refuse 2 Bruise Second-Year Program In Evansville
Posted: 6:38 pm CDT May 30, 2010
EVANSVILLE, Wis. -- Although many people are involved in abusive relationships, a growing number of those people are teenagers.