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iChange Justice Season 5

Restorative Community Coalition with Joy Gilfilen and Karen Ball

🎙️ iChange Justice Podcast: Season 5 Real People. Real Stories. Real Voices. Welcome to the Fifth Era of iChange Justice! Broadcasting from Whatcom County, we are a converging network of Visionaries, Healers, Authors, and Leaders dedicated to restorative action. 🛶✨ Bridge the gap between Service Providers and those in need of services. We share raw, unfiltered conversations with leaders, teachers, indigenous mentors, and citizens directly impacted by mental health, poverty, addiction and

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00:57:53

#18 iChange Justice Podcast "Law & Peace Series:...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/03/31

Opening the complex window of law enforcement from the inside out - with Whatcom County Law enforcement officer Steve Harris. After 27 years in the field, we invite him to talk about distinctions such as, who are municipal police as different from the county, state, or federal law enforcement? How is this different from tribal police, corrections officials, court officials, even statewide peace officers, or elected law enforcement CEOs who run the corporations related to the law and justice system

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00:57:49

#17 iChange Justice Podcast - One Engineer's View on...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/03/25

How do successful engineers think about problem-solving and planning projects? Clear answer: They ask the client what problems they want to solve, what they need, what they want, and LISTEN to the answers for the purpose of meeting those needs. It doesn’t work the other way around. In this episode, we talk with our guest Atul Deshmane, an engineer who has worked in both the private and public sectors for decades. And, he has served our community as a Whatcom County Planning Commissioner and as a

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00:51:36

#16 iChange Justice podcast, "Young and...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/03/17

“Being harassed and scared all the time is normal for a homeless youth and carrying the burden to protect your parents by telling them your experiences becomes normal”. “One lesson, ask us what’s going on-don’t pretend it's not happening!” Most of us, when we think of homelessness we are jaded by our own perceptions and omit the young generations who are afflicted by it. In 2020 Whatcom County counted approximately 103 homeless youth, according to the Whatcom County Coalition to End Homelessness

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00:54:27

#15 iChange Podcast "The Money Pit Part 2" Hosted by...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/03/10

Driver’s License…is it necessary to have a driver’s license to be successful? Is it really appropriate to suspend or revoke a driver's license as a consequence of crimes unrelated to violence or driving at all? Who really is paying for the consequences of a lost license? Family, children, taxpayers, and employers are paying much more of their own funds due to loss of employees, retraining, public services shelling out bus passes and vouchers for taxis, and such. When the documents say in black and

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01:09:01

#14 iChange Justice Podcast "The Money Pit" Part 1...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/03/03

Have you been confused about the cost of incarceration? Maybe you're confused about task forces and how they spend money? Or maybe, about city and county district expenditures? In this episode, we share our personal and observed experiences with the ins and outs of criminal legal expenditures. Expenditures come in many forms, from court fees, fines, taxes, and even medical costs. Did you know that it costs taxpayers $55k a year per person to house an inmate? What about after that inmate releases

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00:44:35

#13 iChange Justice Podcast, Reality Check- "One...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/02/25

One car accident threw a family of 7 out into the cold to live in the streets of Blaine. What happened that that happened? How did it affect the whole family? Our client talks about the trauma, the fear, and then the reality of living on the streets, under constant harassment, with police surveillance, being preyed upon, and vulnerable to any small crisis, however little it may seem. The 24/7 need to be doing self-protection, the fear of being arrested or having what little possessions the family

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00:48:14

#12 iChange Justice Podcast Hosted by Joy Gilfilen...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/02/17

We talked earlier about Justice, what is it and what does it mean to us as individuals as well as community members? Today we discuss and share our previous perceptions of Restorative Justice in comparison to what we know today about what Restorative Justice really is. Restorative Justice is intentional in its holistic ability to include all involved parties such as the accused, children and or family of the accused, professionals working in the system and courts, the victim and their children, and

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00:53:50

#11 iChange Podcast "Real People Real Gaps" Hosted by...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/02/10

This episode first aired on Feb 3rd and we are rebroadcasting it today February 10th. Is COVID to blame for the backed-up court cases? Or is it clogged administrative problems inside our system, or a problem with the Prosecutor’s or the Defender’s office? The jail has had steep reductions in occupancy load because of Covid rules being implemented, yet our direct reporting from people living inside the jails and awaiting representation, or for court action, there are real gaps in communication,

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00:53:50

#10 iChange Podcast -"Real People Real Gaps" Hosted...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/02/03

Is COVID to blame for the backed-up court cases? Or is it clogged administrative problems inside our system, or a problem with the Prosecutor’s or the Defender’s office? The jail has had steep reductions in occupancy load because of Covid rules being implemented, yet our direct reporting from people living inside the jails and awaiting representation, or for court action, there are real gaps in communication, services, and justice. Mental health issues of all types have skyrocketed throughout

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01:11:08

#09 iChange Justice Podcast "Community Safety Nets"...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/01/27

Community safety nets-what are they? Why do we need them? Chene’ shares her introduction to our organization and she states, “Direct and transparent communication is key”. Debbie explains her path that led to working with us and shares deeply personal stories of how her perspective shifted and enabled her to seek out collaboration with us. Irene speaks up about her journey and explicit examples of how the safety net has begun to fray throughout the last 40 years. Irene gives credit to Jim Cozad for

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01:15:54

#08 iChange Justice Podcast - "Public Safety" Hosted...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/01/21

What does “public safety” mean? To elected officials, the words often mean buying or managing buildings - like jails. To people in bureaucracies it’s all about money…for it refers to the Public Safety department; so it's about budgets, police, and equipment. From childhood, we learn what safe or safety means from our protectors. So we have a bias and this bias pre-conditions how we see the world. Let’s chat about where our money goes as different from where we think it goes. Times have changed - and

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00:56:47

#07 iChange Justice Podcast "Civic Intervention"...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/01/13

Is what we think happens within the criminal justice system ACTUALLY happening? As a community member, taxpayer, and contributing person, are our ideas of the justice system equal to the reality of how it works today? Our coalition has figured out there are BIG gaps. It's time to find out what they are and to make changes and course corrections to get a better return for the taxpayer's trust. We CAN intercept mass incarceration and violence at the pre-jail/pre-prison level. In this episode,

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00:56:46

#06 iChange Podcast - "Paradoxes" Hosted by Joy...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2022/01/07

Paradigms, puzzles, and paradoxes. A minefield of confusion. Are the law and justice system working for or against the people’s safety, for or against the police? What is public safety anyway? How much does it cost us? Let’s talk about it. When things are not working, do we as individuals, as professionals, community members, and persons in positions of power have an obligation to speak up and challenge what’s happening? Absolutely! We as a nation have an emergent need to re-evaluate what we are

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00:39:21

#05 iChange Podcast - "Perceptions, Pre-ceptions and...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2021/12/31

What is the common good? How can we challenge our minds to see predicaments as opportunities to think differently about justice, rehabilitation, recovery, employment, jobs? Why can’t we put people to work rather than into jail? It requires understanding the old historical habits of thinking that gets certain results. To change the input could change the output. Working hands-on with people coming out of the system, and helping families navigate the system provides new ideas. Join us as we dig deep

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00:46:48

#04 iChange Justicr Podcast - "Misconceptions" Hosted...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2021/12/24

Stories, facts, and truth collide in the world of justice, jails, and prisons. How does it work? Local people talk about how an arrest changes reality. What we are told is filled with misinformation, misperceptions, and preconceptions.Real human beings are paying the price - as taxpayers, as employers, as a community.What’s the real cost - the real price we pay for the phrase, “Commit a crime, do the time”? Who really pays the bills? Where does the money come from and where does it go? Let’s take

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00:59:32

#03 iChange Podcast "Bullying" Hosted by Joy...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2021/12/17

What’s the word bullying mean to you? Does it mean something personal, or it is a news story? How does the word relate to justice? Has it changed in the past few years as we deal with police protests, violence in schools, racism, the riot at the nation’s capital? In this episode, we dig deeper into bullying as it applies inside the criminal, civil and legislative systems. Let’s talk about its effects in the workplaces, around the issues with police and riots this past year, or how it affects

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00:42:37

#02 iChange Justice Podcast - "Why does it matter?"...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2021/12/10

iChange podcast-Why does it matter? Why on earth would we want to expose the ‘justice system’ inconsistencies? Why risk our individual freedoms and reputations? Why are we willing to step out and speak up about sensitive information which can ignite so many perceptions? What difference does it make if we do or don't speak up about the injustices with the system? There are many layers of the effects the system has on families, communities, and even as a country or world! Recidivism is real, it is

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00:29:06

#01 iChange Justice Podcast, "What is justice...

iChange Justice Season 5 ·

2021/12/03

What is justice anyway? It depends on the eye of the beholder. Four people from the Restorative CommUnity Coalition with lived experience in the field talk about justice in America from their perspective. Series 1 of many to come, this show is all about dropping the veil on the criminal justice system. Over 800 years and the system has not budged on restoring anyone, in fact, quite the opposite. Why do we have over 9 million people in prison in the US? Who is paying for all of the ins and outs of

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