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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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#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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#54 John Fitzpatrick joins Joy Gilfilen, to discuss...

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2022/12/16

iChange Justice Podcast, Season 2, Episode 2, John Fitzpatrick joins Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice to discuss his life behind bars, and afterwards since release and successful reintegration into society. John shares his history with Irene Morgan and why the Restorative CommUnity Coalition's pioneering work in building alternatives to incarceration mattered to him, and to others. Irene Morgan wrote to him in prison for eight years, encouraging him to establish reentry programs inside. John

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00:52:15

#53 iChange Justice Begins Season 2 with "The Money...

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2022/12/09

Season 2 of iChange Justice Podcast begins with "The Money Business" as experienced from inside prison walls. Our listeners hear firsthand how jail industry contractors and DOC officials do business. This interview is directly from an inmate discussing how things have changed the past few years for people incarcerated (especially since 2007) in Washington State. It has become very difficult to talk about and to advocate for justice once you are inside. Due to various legislative issues, minimum wage

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00:48:56

#52 iChange Justice Podcast with Joy Gilfilin and...

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2022/12/02

Irene Morgan is the featured guest interviewed by Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, speaking about "expungement of records" and why it matters to people involved in the criminal legal system. Rebuilding their lives is often virtually impossible without mentorship supports and people with experience helping them recover through all the legal chaos. Helping people do expungements is one of the direct Client Services that the Restorative CommUnity has now added to the list of critical actions

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#51 iChange Justice Podcat presents Healing Community...

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2022/11/18

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, interviews Atul Deshmane about the complex effects of compound civic trauma in the community. How has it impacted individual people to live with 3 - 5 years of escalating distress as we went through layers of conflict...political, social, economic, emotional, and physical disasters and emergencies? What were the impacts on different kinds of people in different industries, on our business people, our farmers, our civic leaders, and 1st responders as we

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01:02:36

#50 Rebuilding our Community Safety Net

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2022/11/11

In today’s 50th episode of iChange Justice Podcast, Joy Gilfilen, President of the Restorative Community Coalition and podcast Host, interviews our Media Manager, Ava Sakowski, and former outreach counseling professional. Why? To share Ava’s reflections as a social service worker from 1970-1995 regarding the last three years of emergency crisis conditions affecting our families. Ava recalls how being a recipient of social services made her the person she grew into as an adult. In the 70s publicly

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00:46:23

#49 iChange Justice host Joy Gilfilen, interviews...

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2022/11/03

iChange Justice host Joy Gilfilen interviews Paxton...what a working man learned when he started exploring what happens to people when they get "bucked out" of the working class and live homeless - outside the bubble of what people think is normal. What did he learn about how the world works differently when you have no phone, no credit card, and no network to support your view of yourself? He shares how the context shifts, and no one who recognizes you, no way to rent a hotel or take certain kinds

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00:58:55

#48 iChange Justice Podcast "Bringing Peace to...

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2022/10/27

Tomorrow on ichange Justice podcast, Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice podcast, speaks with Marc Santos, the Founder of Noble Goldman, an online international mastermind and intentional change platform. The topic is about raising our consciousness, and opening our minds to the idea that it is possible to be the ones "Bringing Peace to Justice in a Divided Nation". Using the latest in knowledge about humanpotential and quantum sciences, the talk is about how it works that we can bring peace to a

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01:02:25

#47 iChange Justice Podcast "Recognizing New...

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2022/10/21

Interviewing Mel Hoover and Rose Edington about "Recognizing New Opportunities for Change" was a delight for Joy Gilfilen, host of the iChange Justice Podcast! Mel and Rose are each Unitarian Universalist Ministers with a lifetime of experience working with deep complexity in the field of social, economic, and civic change issues! They recently attended the Community Regeneration Conversations and brought with them a rich, structurally, and culturally diverse perspective. This allowed us all to have

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01:04:13

#46 iChange Justice Podcast, "Prisoners are Human...

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2022/10/13

Joy Gilfilen, the host of iChange Justice, interviews Jerome Gold, the author of Paranoia and Heartbreak, about his experiences working at Echo Glen, the Washington State Juvenile Prison as a rehabilitation counselor for 15 years. The conversation is about how prevention, intervention, and various kinds of therapies help reduce recidivism and increase the probability of people staying out of prison. It also relates to how conflict resolution, de-escalation and other kinds of aggression reduction

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00:47:31

#45 iChange Justice Podcast, Reflections on a...

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2022/10/06

With iChange Justice, this week you will hear from host Joy Gilfilen, Irene Morgan, and Chene Keltz about how one of our clients has impacted our lives over the past ten years, as he re-entered society as a 31-year-old man after living for 17 years in prison. A businessman, Jeff, was recently gunned down in Belize after he had helped a man the day before; and this is heartbreaking. Each of us had a completely different and profound experience with Jeff as he grew and changed as an adult without any

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00:48:29

#44 Lived Life Experience Story with Chene Keltz,...

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2022/09/30

This iChange Justice episode, hosted by Joy Gilfilen, includes a "Do You Recognize Me" lived experience story illuminated by Chene Keltz after surviving decades of emotional trauma and justice-involved events that accumulated, then compounded, and repeated incessantly. It provides a true story perspective that shows how we are addicted to old patterns that do not work. That is unless and until we shift the focus of our civic behaviors to helping people intercept the intergenerational domination

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00:48:24

#43 James White of the ESATTA Cooperative discusses...

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2022/09/23

James White of the ESATTA Cooperative discusses "Healing the Civic Heart" with Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice podcast. For 38 years, James has worked compassionately in the community living field in British Columbia, CA. James founded a non-profit for people with "diverse abilities" - typically called the learning disabled who have been marginalized and dismissed as useful to society for decades. He has helped them become a valued asset in the community as leaders and employed; with

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#42 Community Regeneration Conversations with The...

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2022/09/16

"Community Regeneration Conversations" is the hot topic today, with Host Joy Gilfllen and guests, Chene Keltz, Irene Morgan, Debbie David, and Ilona Krohn. They are all involved in the weeklong civic education program for the Restorative CommUnity Coalition going on this week - Sept 12-16 in Bellingham, WA. The RCC has invited many people to a series of calls discussing the issues we face with the coming winter - and each guest is involved as a speaker during the week and shares their reasons for

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#41 Community Alternatives & Justice with Karen Ball,...

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2022/09/09

iChange Justice host Joy Gilfilen discusses "Community Alternatives & Justice" with Karen Ball, from the Grassroots Compassionate San Antonio project in Texas. Karen is bringing her boots-on-the-ground knowledge in doing prevention and intervention at the community level, together with her institutional knowledge of civic engagement and the criminal justice field. Karen clearly shows how the divergent parts of policing, courts, and corrections can be humanized and reknit through community

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#40 iChange Justice Podcast "Healed People-Heal...

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2022/09/02

Guest Franklyn Smith, with Freedom Project WA, discusses how he's learned that "Healed People, Heal People" with Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChangeJustice. As a young man, he lived deep in the jazz music world in downtown Seattle with his mother, and when she died, he got into drugs. Today he has "lived on all sides of the fences", for he went through the military, incarceration, drug addiction, homelessness, mental health, and rehabilitation and studied the issues down deep and real. His company, Fresh

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#39 The Value of Having Lived Experience" is with Don...

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2022/08/25

Today's topic, "Solutions: The Value of Having Lived Experience," is with Don Kirchner interviewed by Joy Gilfilen, iChange Justice podcast host, about how it worked after he served time in federal prison. Don was one of the original members of the Restorative Community Coalition who wrote about his journey in his book, A Matter of Time, then Return to Honor. He was Irene's inspiration for founding the Whatcom County ReEntry Coalition; then became a board member who learned about how to help

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00:53:51

#38 iChange Justice Podcast "Monopolies and Justice...

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2022/08/18

Bo Richardson is our guest with iChange Host Joy Gilfilen discussing how businesses, governments, media, and education create, dominate and maintain monopolies - all as it relates to the justice system. Bo was a commercial fisherman in Alaska for 30 years and has been an activist, researcher, and writer published in Whatcom Watch, Bellingham Herald, Organic Press, and Cascadia Weekly. This episode deals with mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex. iChange Justice Podcast #38

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#37 iChange Justice Podcast "A Historical Opportunity...

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2022/08/11

Host Joy Gilfilen discusses "A Historical Opportunity for American Leadership" with Ilona Krohn, a global economist. They discuss many issues that interlink and show how and why solving the real human social value issues in the US is directly related to building a healthier global economy and determining our future as a species. Being compassionate and humane is our greatest asset, and how tapping into our human potential is key to begin healing our communities from decades of trauma caused by

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#36 iChange Justice podcast "Human Conflicts and...

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2022/08/04

iChange Justice podcast, Human Conflicts, and Civic Betrayals Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice podcast, interviews Markis Dee about his extraordinary work since 2017 as a homeless advocate and founder of S.O.S. Serenity Outreach Services. He works on the front line helping provide direct services to civic refugees - people living in life crisis, acute survival, and emergency conditions. Markis talks about his own-lived experience of growing up at 14 in deep poverty; how challenges

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