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iChange Justice

Restorative Community Coalition with Host Joy Gilfilen

iChange Justice Podcast is in its Fourth season, broadcasting from Whatcom County and sharing raw conversations with people directly impacted by the intertwined crises of mental health, fentanyl addiction, poverty, homelessness, and incarceration. We bring together a diverse range of voices—from citizens to service providers, politicians to formerly incarcerated individuals—to explore the complex challenges facing our community and beyond.Our goal is to shed light on the lived experiences of those

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00:53:22

#94 Tiny Home Villages and Community Resilience-...

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2023/09/22

Doug Gustafson at Homes NOW talks about this 100% volunteer organization that successfully manages two tiny home villages in Bellingham. These tiny homes villages only cost for initial set up. This was supported by the City of Bellingham, in that they provided some land, port-a-potties, and electricity for the villages. This model is cost effective and highly successful. These villages are transitional housing for homeless people seeking permanent houses, who are eager to do the work of

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00:45:41

#93-iChange Justice Podcast "Authentic Authority with...

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2023/09/15

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice Podcast speaks about Authentic Authority with Kurt Krueger, founder of the Peace Labs, Peacemaking Circles, and Author of the best-selling Winning Ways for Living series. Kurt discusses his learning curve first as a knowledge authority and elite athlete, teacher, international coach, and founder of the Institute of Sports Psychology in India, Stockholm, Los Angeles, Melbourne, London, and Tokyo. Then his worldview has been informed by more human conflict

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00:47:28

#92-iChange Justice Podcast "Ancestors of the Future"...

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2023/09/08

Today iChange Justice with host Joy Gifilen is about becoming "Ancestors of the Future". Joy talks with Eve about her complicated, multi-generational history as a grandmother, mother, parent, daughter, and sister with Spanish, Mexican, and Indigenous Cherokee Bear Clan lineage. This means she has both a matriarchal family, spiritual and cultural history and a patriarchal spiritual, and cultural family history. Complexifying the experience was generational abuse, addiction, and violence against

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00:58:28

#91 iChange Justice Podcast host, Joy Gilfilen, talks...

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2023/09/01

iChange Justice Podcast host, Joy Gilfilen, talks with Alex McLean, whose diverse background in environmental journalism, building trades and community leadership led him into an activist role in the Pacific Northwest. He served two 3-year terms on the Bellingham Greenways Advisory Committee and helped craft the Levies that voters of Bellingham approved Alex speaks of systemic entropy as one of the biggest challenges we are facing today. The conversation ranges from conflict theory, economic

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00:58:57

#90 iChange Justice Podcast with Joy Gilfilen and Ava...

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2023/08/25

Joy Gilfilen, the host of the iChange Justice podcast, interviews Ava Sakowski about "Heartaches, Hope and Healing". It's a story of reflections looking back at five decades of social, civic, and economic changes in her personal to business life as a marketing and sales professional.Ava's different roles as an elder, mother, social worker, musician, and ultimately a podcaster, and then a marketing professional have affected her world views, her happiness and s, and satisfaction

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00:51:25

#89 iChange Justice Podcast - Experiencing...

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2023/08/18

iChange Justice Host Joy Gilfilen interviews James White about how his own attitudes of leadership have changed over decades of working within institutions that were controlled from the top down with very rigid systems. James' expertise is working with people who have been boxed in by being labeled with a disability, which creates a habit of disempowerment and co-dependency. Instead, he created ESATTA - a cooperative for Empowering Self-Advocates To Take Action. He works to empower people who

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00:54:18

#88-iChange Justice Podcast- ReHumanizing Systems...

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2023/08/11

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice discusses how two different people working inside institutionalized systems have learned how to shift their own thinking to understand the people who are subject to, or living inside systems that have become desensitized to the needs of humans. James White has been working with government funded agencies and non-profit organizations largely in the fields of physical disability, mental illness, and those displaced by trauma, addiction and poverty. He used

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00:46:29

#87 iChange Justice interviews Debbie David,...

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2023/08/03

Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice, interviews Debbie David, President of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, about new tools and the sciences behind Trauma Informed Workplaces. Debbie is a Home Care Aide with decades of professional and lived experience working with people of diverse abilities, mental health issues, and the types of trauma that comes from incarceration, military service and 1st responders working on the front lines. Debbie discusses how there is a plethora of new knowledge

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00:57:36

#86 iChange Justice podcast presents...

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2023/07/28

This iChange Justice podcast about "Collaboratories" is a team interview with Mel Hoover and Rose Edington who talk about their experiences of learning to work with the wealth of diversity that emerged from their lives and why they founded MelRose Ministries for Positive Transformative Change!They seek to co-create Beloved Community in various settings that call for collaboration. MRM provides a channel for Rev. Mel and Rev. Rose to work together over their 50 years of marriage and

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00:53:16

#85- iChange Justice Podcast -"Leadership in the 21st...

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2023/07/21

Atul Deshmane talks about "Leadership in the 21st Century" with Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice. We all must learn to move with the times. Leadership in the past was about popularity, political support by corporate interests, and who people were connected to in a popular election environment. It's what we had then. This is now. It's a new world with millions of dollars entering even local and statewide campaigns, skewing common sense into hyper-reactivity and

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00:52:05

#84 iChange Justice Podcast-Prevention, Intervention,...

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2023/07/14

Tally Rabatin joins Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice in a discussionabout how we can team up across sectors to learn how to investdifferently in our communities to disrupt the unrelenting cycle of homelessness and degeneration that has been harming our children and families. What does it take to invest in prevention, intervention, re-education, and other new learning ways to promote sustained independence for current and future generations? Tally speaks as the Community Engagement Director

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00:58:29

#83-Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice...

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2023/07/07

First aired 4/14/22-What about taxes? Do you understand them? This episode is about taxes and how they really work in our lives in Whatcom County. Taxes directly affect law enforcement, the courts, and the judicial system. All these systems consume taxes. So how does that money get generated in Whatcom County? All tax money is generated by individual and small business taxpayers. What's the difference between using sales vs. property tax to pay for infrastructure costs? Joy Gilfilen replays an

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00:48:49

#82 iChange Justice Podcast - "At the Crossroads of...

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2023/06/30

iChange Justice host, Joy Gilfilen talks with Liz Darrow, producer of CommunityVOZ, about the complexity of growing food in the 21st century. Liz serves as the legislative advocate and media coordinator for Community to Community Development at foodjustice.org, so has learned the complexities of how farmworkers are essential workers living in the spaces where climate change, disasters, jobs, justice, families, immigration, public health, and the economy collide across social justice, economic and

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00:51:51

#81-Inclusion Project: Hands Across the Border, Joy...

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2023/06/23

Joy Gilfilen talks with James White of Vancouver, British Columbia, to discuss the learning curve in his field of community living as it has transformed over almost four decades as our society has evolved in understanding the human challenges people face in the aftermath of civic patterns of domination, economic displacement, and extremism. James is pioneering leadership work with ESATTA (Empowering Self-Advocates To Take Action) workers cooperative. They have discovered that because of the

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00:52:40

#80 "Money Matters & Siloes" iChange Justice Podcast...

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2023/06/16

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, brings a new style of discussion to the table from a researcher who was a Wall Street bond market trader. He talks about how so many people in our society are siloed by our jobs. We become experts at doing one thing, and do not realize how this one thing links to another. In investigative journalism, people often talk about following the money trail. In this case, we are "following the number trail". How does a 911 incident or arrest produce a case

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00:48:13

#79-iChange Justice Podcast-How Mayors, Compassionate...

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2023/06/09

Joy Gilfilen, Host of IChange Justice, talks with Karen Ball, Ambassador for Compassionate Cities ab about the 2023 Mayor's Conference, where we hear from the Mayor of Miami, Fl, the Mayor of Tacoma, WA and the Mayor of San Antonio, TX talk about how each City is facing issues differently. Collectively they are each different, yet all are confronting a large array of natural and man-made disasters, police reform, homelessness, violence, and justice system issues. Karen then explains how

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00:58:12

#78 Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice...

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2023/06/02

Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice Podcast, interviews Marc Santos of NobleGoldman.com about how "Regenerative Economics" is the next step in transforming the business of injustice. It is all about learning how to value humans inside an economic system that includes rebuilding our communities. At this point, the economy is enrolled in a degenerative pattern of exclusion for the benefit of the privileged interests that control the system. To understand the complexity of the problem,

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00:55:21

#77 Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice...

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2023/05/26

Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice podcast, discusses the heartbreak people face when systems we are told to trust are not trustworthy. While humans caught inside the system feel the pain, and pay extraordinary costs...the hurts and traumas run so deep it is difficult to talk about. Gina is one of our clients caught inside the facade of justice r running through hopeless hoops of bureaucratic punishment faces depression, addiction, trauma, and suicide without help. In this case, it took 5

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#76 iChange Justice Podcast Host Joy Gilfilen talks...

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2023/05/19

iChange Justice Podcast Host Joy Gilfilen talks with Irene Morgan about Prosecutor's Office Injustice as we discover more failures in the system. Today it's about what you can learn from looking at jail roster statistics. How is it that out of 320 people in jail on April 21, 2023 that 35 of them have been in jail from a year to 2.5 years. They are unconvicted. What about "innocent until proven guilty?" What does it matter? Jail stats can reveal the date of arrest, the type of

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00:56:01

#75 Change Justice Host Joy Gilfilen discuss with our...

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2023/05/12

iChange Justice Host Joy Gilfilen joins with Irene Morgan and Debbie David to discuss with our guest, Gina, what a broken "public safety" system looks like. It's her story of feeling sandbagged - going from being a solid, working class to homelessness, jailing and 10 years of punishment for grief. Punished and penalized by a system that doesn't work.Gina, was a working Mom finding out one day that her 29 year old son had committed suicide, that the family was being investigated and

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