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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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#74 iChange Justice Host Joy Gilfilen interviews Dr....

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2023/05/05

iChange Justice Host Joy Gilfilen interviews Dr. Christine Haberkorn about how business works in creative ways for non-profits. She shares some new perspectives on how to think about economics and fundraising when it is related to social justice issues that are often competing for limited funds in the form of grants! Christine's experience in Texas, California and here in Washington bring new ideas to the table. It takes really talking with people about how money really works in our

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00:59:44

#73 iChange Justice with Host Joy Gilfilen is a...

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2023/04/28

Today's episode of iChange Justice with Host Joy Gilfilen is a conversation with Jason McGill. He is the Executive Director of Northwest Youth Services and talks about how business practices have changed over the past few years after Covid changed everything. Specifically, we address a phenomenon...that people are easily provoked to be hyper-reactive to speculative fear - fear that is not based on facts. Our Coalition will be teaming up to host public education events. Our goal is to discuss

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00:51:08

#72 An eye-opener show about how infidelity and...

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2023/04/21

Host Joy Gilfilen starts a discussion with other members of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition about how the media has been working with high-level elected officials to convince the public to buy a $150,000,000 sales tax plan to go into a lifetime of debt to buy a new jail based on jail industry speculation. In the meantime, it puts the taxpayers in a real financial bind in the aftermath of the past three years of covid emergency conditions, extreme economic distress, and social trauma. It is an

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00:54:23

#71 Host of the iChange Justice Podcast, interviews...

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2023/04/14

Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice Podcast, interviews Eve, Karen, and Frank, (members of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition) about their experience doing research into the effects of domination and degenerative systems on people as an institutionalized habit. Then, by contrast, how can we reverse engineer the systems to be regenerative?More importantly, what does it feel like to start seeing the patterns of fear-mongering and silencing that control so many parts of our lives, and what

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00:51:48

#70 Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice podcast...

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2023/04/07

As a wife of an incarcerated person herself, Kehaulani recently moved to Bellingham,to be close to her husband when he was released from prison. Just weeks before release,suddenly the Department of Corrections closed down the DOC Work Release facilityapparently due to conflicts in contract negotiations. This meant that her husband was released into custody in Seattle and he got a job there,Suddenly, for her to be with her husband, she was having to travel to see him, and nowthey must renegotiate

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00:54:10

#69 iChange Justice Podcast, It's All About...

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2023/03/31

iChange Justice Host Joy Gilfilen discusses recent concerns with Debbie David, a Home Care Aid about the high demand for prevention, early intervention, and mental health services. Debbie shared data from a recent report by SAMSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services -- about parents and caregivers facing the escalating rise in children with special needs. There are 38.5 million children who are now needing care, and a lack of services and caregivers. This creates a complex ripple effect

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00:45:57

#68 Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice Podcast,...

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2023/03/24

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice Podcast, talks with Jason McGill, the Executive Director of Northwest Youth Services about what it was like moving from Seattle to Bellingham to work with homeless and displaced youth. He arrived right in the middle of the pandemic while our entire community was under lockdown, and emergency declarations from the Covid Crisis created a human disaster and a civic collision of organizations, groups and corporations. It was the same weekend of the Jan 28, 2021

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00:47:53

#67 iChange Justice Discussing CORE Mental Health...

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2023/03/17

Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice discusses with Ben Hoppie, Mental Health Practitioner, and Trisha Johnston, Peer Counselor the delightful way they work differently and together with other professionals in Cowlitz County to provide emergency services and essential support for people facing substance use, behavioral and mental health issues, homelessness, poverty, and various court and criminal justice issues. Their lived experience and professional training put them in an extraordinary position

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00:48:29

#66 "Community Integrated Services Matters", iChange...

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2023/03/10

iChange Justice Host Joy Gilfilen talks with John Fitzpatrick and his guest about peer mentoring, supportive housing, and supportive employment services that Changed their lives after reentering society from prison. Why did it matter? How has the industry expanded over the past few years - specifically post covid? John explains in real terms what it means to be a peer mentor and how it works. Then explains why community-integrated services (all supports in one central location) really increase the

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#65 Joy Gilfilen, the host of iChange Justice,...

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2023/03/03

Joy Gilfilen, the host of iChange Justice, engages Reverend Mel Hoover in a more conversational discussion about asking questions: "How can we learn together how to navigate into a new economy post covid?" Acknowledging that the world has changed is Step 1. Step 2 is knowing that "nothing will ever be the same again" which allows you to engage your creative mind: "How do we adapt? Joy has been asking this question. As did Mel, who retired from congregational ministry where he served as an internal

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00:51:06

#64 Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice podcast...

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2023/02/25

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice podcast talks with Lee Rusch, Director of the Westside Heroin and Opioid Task Force about the issues facing families who are dealing with Fentanyl, homelessness, Narcon and why it matters. Lee has been working in social services for almost 40 years on the streets of Chicago, so his knowledge is broad, strong, and based on lived experience of helping families in crisis. He is clear that educating families is essential in this world. Lee talks about the historical

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00:49:44

#63 Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice podcast,...

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2023/02/17

Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice podcast, interviews Eve, a native grandmother who discusses the critical importance of having community networks and family support when facing the very deep challenge of healing from repetitive suicides, ancestral family grief, and civic trauma. Eve found that her first leg of healing came through personal work and support from NACA - Native Americans for Community Action - a national and regional resource. Then doing her own personal work, meditation, and

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00:56:39

#62 Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice talks with...

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2023/02/10

Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice talks with Atul Deshmane, a member of the Whatcom County Stakeholders Advisory Committee about why he cast a dissenting vote against the majority members who were producing the jail building "Needs Assessment Report". It is a very informative discussion about policymakers' objectives inside the business of justice. Is there a better way of solving the real poverty, homelessness and mental health problems? Atul's views are critical thinking processes from the

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00:55:56

#61 Joy Gilfilen, Hosts of iChange Justice, discusses...

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2023/02/02

Irene Morgan and Joy Gilfilen, Hosts of iChange Justice, discuss the very real post-pandemic human fallout from multiple years of economic domination by the Whatcom County Executive branch officials. Homeless emergencies started being declared in 2017, and the emergency declarations for covid and other disasters have been ongoing for over 3 years while people were in lockdown, dealing with high-risk situations, loss of their companies, jobs, livelihoods, family members, community, and social

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00:57:01

#60 iChange Justice Podcast - Civic Violence and...

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2023/01/27

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, and Irene Morgan, founder of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, talk about what they saw happen on January 28, 2021 when they went on a peace-making mission to help the homeless talk with officials to resolve emergency crisis needs. Instead, at 7 am they found that four law enforcement agencies "jumped the gun" on their promises and converged a day early to "sweep" the homeless out of the civic center at "Camp 210". They used

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00:53:58

#59 iChange Justice Podcast with Irene Morgan, talks...

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2023/01/20

"Joy Gilfilen, the host of iChange Justice, interviews Irene Morgan, the founder of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, about civic trauma, court processes and how glacial the systems of justice seem to be working post pandemic. Irene was observing one morning as a Whatcom County Superior Court Judge meets with roughly a dozen Prosecutors, Defenders, and various staff to schedule felony cases for trial. She observes how the people going on trial are nowhere to be seen as their lives are placed on

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#58 iChange Justice host Joy Gilfilen discusses "The...

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2023/01/13

Thursday at Noon on KPNW-DB, Published to other outlets at 6:00 PM iChange Justice host Joy Gilfilen discusses "The Domination Effect" with Beth Brownfield, an activist who has been working with original nations and people for over 41 years to understand the long-term impacts of cultural genocide on humanity. Just last week, Beth hosted Lummi Elder Jewell James at the Bellingham Universalist Fellowship to speak about the Doctrine of Discoveries and how its flawed use has created compound

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00:44:01

#57 iChange Justice Podcast discusses "Compassionate...

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2023/01/06

"Compassionate Action" is the discussion between Ruth Ann Lonardelli and Joy Gilfilen, the host of iChange Justice. In this New Year especially, people across all layers of our society and across all generations are facing different kinds of grief, trauma, distress, sadness, and emotional upheavals. The civic, social, and economic stress has been building up over several years post-pandemic. We've been reeling in the aftermath of social, political, police, and homeless conflicts, on top of weather

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00:47:46

#56 Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice talks with...

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2022/12/29

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, talks with Peter, a father of a young woman dealing with Fentanyl addiction issues, overdoses, depression, mental illness and the long road to try to find a path to recovery. What happened? How does it feel going through it? From his lived experience -- what do we need to know about the despair, the paralysis? What has been the ripple effect, the gaps, the unresolved needs? How could we humanize the process, to create a compassionate way to confront the

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00:44:54

#55 iChange Podcast - 16th Anniversary for...

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2022/12/23

Joy Gilfilen and Chene Keltz discuss hosting season #1 of the iChange Justice podcast and how this ties into the Open House and 16th Anniversary Celebration of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition on December 28th! There will be a special Zoom call that night that anyone can attend online (or in person at their offices in Bellingham, WA! Go to www.theRestorativeCommunity.org for links and details! In today's episode we talk about what was learned from Season 1, and how we are building off that

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