Photo: William Snowden, director of the Vera Institute of Justice in Louisiana, works at his desk in New Orleans on July 12, 2022. Snowden says violence is the expression of unmet needs. (Photo by Kate Heston/News21) Deborah Vigil didn’t wear her gear one day in mid-July. As a responder for Albuquerque Community Safety, she’s allowed
Photo: Elizabeth DaCosta shares resources with Troy Burell as she conducts the annual Point-in-Time Homeless Count in downtown Phoenix. (File photo by Monserrat Apud/Cronkite News) Living on the streets isn’t just dangerous. It’s deadly, a new study finds. Older people who live in homeless shelters, encampments or without traditional housing are 3.5 times more likely
Photo: Sarahi Reyes, 30, smiles at her daughters, Evelin Moncarda-Reyes, 13, and Mia Cartagena-Reyes, 3, from a kitchen near Albergue Belén in Tapachula, Mexico Each night, Eduardo Rojas sleeps on flattened cardboard boxes over sand-colored dirt in this city of 350,000 near the border with Guatemala. He has been sleeping in Parque Bicentenario for more
What has happened to San Francisco, often thought of in the past as the most beautiful city in the country, if not the entire world? The transition from beloved by almost all to profoundly repellant to many is the sad story of a great city being toppled from within. The “Paris of the West” has
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.” – an Ethiopian proverb We just returned from a trip to California. One of our daughter-in-laws had an operation that required her to be hospitalized for a few days and we went to babysit the grandkids while she was in the hospital and recovering. While
The Board of Directors of the Coalition of Compassion and Justice (CCJ) is pleased to announce the appointment of Allison Lenocker as Executive Director, effective immediately. Allison previously served as Assistant Director, having joined CCJ in May, 2017. Prior to her time with CCJ, Allison worked at Mingus Mountain Academy as a group leader, team
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