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iChange Justice#209 – iChange Justice Podcast – From Chaos to Coherence with Dr. Christine Habercorn#209 – iChange Justice Podcast – From Chaos to Coherence: Dr. Christine Habercorn on Community, Economics & the Future of JusticeHost- Joy Gilfilen and Karen Ball welcome Dr. Christine Habercorn, an elder stateswoman of civic leadership and long-time consultant with the Restorative CommUunity Coalition. With more than 50 years of political and community experience, Dr. Habercorn brings a rare perspective shaped by decades of business, activism, teaching, and global travel.Beginning her work in the 1970s alongside Robert F. Kennedy and Jerry Brown, Christine became deeply engaged in civic reform, economic development, and community action across multiple states and coun...
2025-11-0749 miniChange Justice#208 – iChange Justice Podcast: How It All Works – From Ranch Roots to Restorative FuturesJoy Gilfilen speaks about the evolution of the iChange Justice Podcast — how a lifetime of unexpected experiences shaped her understanding of law, leadership, and community transformation.For nearly five years, Joy has hosted the iChange Justice Podcast as a thought-leadership platform exploring how restorative justice, regenerative economics, and community empowerment intersect to build a more humane society. What began as a local conversation about jail reform and reentry in Whatcom County has grown into a wide-ranging inquiry into how justice, governance, and the economy intertwine across generations and cultures.From her early li...
2025-10-3059 miniChange JusticeEpisode 206 – Ripples of Healing: How Service Transforms Communities with James White206-iChange Justice Podcast – Ripples of Healing: How Service Transforms Communities with James WhiteHosted by Joy Gilfilen with co-host Karen BallWhat does it mean to live a life centered on service — not as a title, a role, or a retirement project, but as a daily practice that transforms the world around us? In this powerful new conversation, host Joy Gilfilen and co-host Karen Ball sit down with James White, founder of the ESATTA Cooperative, to explore how grassroots service and cooperative action can heal individuals, strengthen relationships, and create ripp...
2025-10-1646 miniChange Justice#205 iChange Justice Podcast “From Scarcity to Consciousness: Rethinking Economics, Human Value, and Public Safety”Host Joy Gilfilen welcomes back Ilona Krohn, an economist whose research traces the hidden emotional and structural roots of our economic and social systems. Together they explore how the global obsession with profit and control has shaped local taxation, governance, and public safety — and how these deeply embedded behaviors are driving cycles of trauma, competition, and inequality in our communities.Ilona reveals how economic systems built on scarcity thinking have conditioned generations to believe there is never enough — not enough time, money, resources, or worth — and how that fear fuels everything from political division to personal burnout. She co...
2025-10-0846 miniChange Justice#204 - iChange Justice Podcast -Peacemaking in Action: A Conversation with Kurt Krueger and hosts Joy Gilfilen and Karen BallIn this inspiring episode, hosts Joy Gilfilen and Karen Ball welcome educator and peace advocate Kurt Krueger to discuss the transformative work of Peacemaker Circles. From stress-relief practices to global collaboration, Kurt shares how cultivating inner calm can ripple outward into families, communities, and societies.Listeners will learn simple tools for reducing stress and building resilience, hear stories of peace initiatives in refugee camps and communities worldwide, and discover the Peacemaker’s Challenge—a project empowering youth to create change at home and in schools.This is more than a conversation; it’s a call to act...
2025-10-0248 miniChange Justice#201- iChange Justice Podcast - Facing Our Past, Shaping Our FutureThe "iChange Justice" podcast is joined by a very special guest and longtime supporter of its mission, Mel Hoover. As an advisor, Hoover provides his unique perspective, helping to navigate the significant transitions and complex issues facing Whatcom County.The conversation with Mel begins with a personal journey, as he shares how he and his wife, both ministers and change agents, came to settle in the Pacific Northwest to be closer to their family. Mel, originally from the East Coast, reflects on his first visit to the area in the 1980s and the striking contrast between its...
2025-09-1146 miniChange Justice#200 - iChange Justice Podcast -Discover the power of restorative justice with Joy Gilfilen and Irene MorganIn a special milestone episode, Joy Gilfilen hosts a powerful conversation on restorative justice with Irene Morgan, founder of the Restorative Community Coalition. This episode, delves into how the justice system has shifted from a successful, community-based approach to a punitive, punishment-focused model. Morgan, who has decades of experience in this field, shares her journey and the lessons she has learned along the way.The discussion begins with Irene's early experience in the 1990s on a Community Accountability Board (CAB) in Whatcom County. This diversion program for first and second-time teen offenders had a remarkable 98% success rate...
2025-09-0356 miniChange JusticeBeyond Punishment: Restorative Justice and the Path to Community HealingBeyond Punishment: Restorative Justice and the Path to Community HealingReady for a deep dive into justice? It's our 199th episode, and Whatcom County's own Joy Gilfilen is joined by Irene Morgan, the founder of the Restorative Community Coalition. Together, they're taking a hard look at the justice system as we know it, and they're not holding back.Irene shares her incredible journey, starting with her childhood and her early observations of how the "welfare system" impacted people. She later saw those same patterns repeat in the court and justice system, leading her to a stark conclusion...
2025-08-2852 miniChange JusticeiChange Justice Podcast #191 with Joy Gilfilen & Karen Ball Whatcom County's Justice System - Local Realities, National ImplicationsIn a world grappling with escalating societal challenges, the iChange Justice podcast pulls back the curtains on the intricate dance between local realities and national implications within the criminal justice system. Hosts Joy Gilfilen and Karen Ball invite listeners to journey into Whatcom County, Washington—a seemingly small corner of the Pacific Northwest that, as they meticulously reveal, serves as a powerful microcosm for the struggles and solutions facing communities across the entire nation.From the unique pressures of border security to the pervasive influence of the prison industrial complex, Gilfilen, with decades of on-the-ground experience, paints a...
2025-07-0355 miniChange Justice#190-iChange Justice Podcast: Myth Buster – Unpacking the "Snaggle Tooth Dragon"In a significant step for the iChange Justice Podcast, Joy Gilfilen announces Karen Ball as a new co-host. This partnership aims to broaden the conversation on social, criminal, and economic justice, using their combined expertise to navigate complex issues and foster civic dialogue.Karen Ball, with master's degrees in criminal justice and extensive experience in restorative justice, conflict resolution, and community organizing (including domestic violence prevention and nuclear weapons abolition), will bring a critical lens to the show. Both Joy and Karen reveal a surprising shared realization that challenges conventional understanding: the justice system, often perceived as...
2025-06-261h 17iChange Justice#189 iChange Justice Podcast: "Learning How to Blaze a New Trail into the Future!" with Karen BallThis week, host Joy Gilfilen welcomes special guest Karen Ball for a compelling conversation about taking Intentional Change Action. Specifically, how to effectively confront "empire thinking" and its profound destructive impact on our societies.They dive deep into the historical roots of domination systems, tracing their evolution from feudalism to monopolistic capitalism, and discuss how these ingrained patterns restrict our collective imagination and hinder true "flourishment" for all.Karen shares insights from recent webinars on systemic power imbalances, including the disproportionate influence of billionaires and strategies for challenging such concentrations of power.Joy...
2025-06-191h 08iChange Justice#182- iChange Justice Podcast -Blind Spots: Unexpected Findings from Jail Trauma ResearchRebroadcasting a powerful episode! Season 3 - #149: Blind Spots: Unexpected Findings from Jail Trauma ResearchThe world is changing so fast, and understanding the impact of arrest or trauma on our loved ones is more important than ever. This episode may offer valuable insights. Join host Joy Gilfilen as she dives into her insightful 2018 Ethnographic research report, "Unexpected Findings of Jail Trauma Research." Based on interviews with 79 individuals involved in the criminal justice system (including 53 formerly arrested people and 26 family members, first responders, and employers), Joy explores the profound emotional impact of arrest on all of us. This crucial discussion...
2025-05-0247 miniChange Justice#176 iChange Justice Podcast - Exploring Whatcom County's Complex Landscape with Mel Hoover & Joy GilfilenIn this lively podcast episode, host Joy Gilfilen has a fascinating conversation with Mel Hoover, who is considered part of the Silent Generation, and shares stories from his life growing up on the East Coast, when Washington Territory was not yet a state. 🇺🇸 Mel's lived experience is rooted in his diverse educational and religious knowledge; then expands to show his multi-faceted, intersectional background which includes his Cherokee and Seminole roots, his Black, Irish, and Jewish ancestry, and the impact of WWII on his family and him as he grew up in the aftermath of war, and during the civil rights...
2025-03-201h 10iChange Justice#175 iChange Justice Podcast-Building Resilience: Pattern Dynamics and the Path ForwardHost Joy Gilfilen and guest David McLeod discuss the future, and how nature works normally. Then they connect it to civic systems, power dynamics, historical patterns of structured civilization, and the nature of evolving consciousness around the world. David brings decades of lived experience and wisdom as a leader of the Whatcom Transition Town Movement, studying Pattern Dynamics, Integral Sciences and adds his "Messy Meshwork of MetaMaps in a Matrix" model. Joy brings her lifetime experience as a Living Potentials Researcher studying the issues of poverty, the cycles of addictions and abuse, and how this all converges with the pri...
2025-03-1359 miniChange Justice#167 iChange Justice Podcast-Bridging the Gaps Between US: 2025!In 2025: How do we bridge the gaps that divide and conquer? Joy Gilfilen brings together Eveimai Lotori, Founder of Beyond Your Impossible with guest Eric Thompson of Universal Foundation for Living Design about the complexities of communicating around the world during a time of great transitions.
Our world is facing extreme weather conditions, climate change challenges, human made conflicts, cultural, social, political, emotional and language divides all linked together through a globalized economy. How does this work? How can we separate things into bite-sized pieces so we can focus on small parts, even as we must unite...
2025-01-1659 miniChange Justice#154-iChange Justice Podcast: "How to Intercept the Games of Manipulation"A Life Experience group conversation on "How to Intercept the Games of Manipulation" that often leave us victimized inside our own self-destructive belief systems, habits and behaviors. .
In her groundbreaking work, Joy Gilfilen, former President of the Restorative Community Coalition, sheds light on unwitting, insidious ways in which habits of manipulation and denialism can be seen infiltrating our institutions, commercial and civic systems. It happens across the social, economic and civic spectrum - infecting fear into our media, courts, business, political, and public safety and emergency management systems.
Drawing from recordings from 2016, this deep dive...
2024-10-1750 miniChange Justice#149 iChange Justice Podcast "Blind Spots: Unexpected Findings from Jail Trauma Research."Join host Joy Gilfilen as she dives into her 2018 Ethnographic research report, "Unexpected Findings of Jail Trauma Research." Based on interviews with 79 individuals involved in the criminal justice system (including 53 formerly arrested people and 26 family members, first responders, and employers), Joy explores the emotional impact of arrest on all of us.
The podcast delves into the hidden consequences, from the initial arrest to its ripple effects on families and loved ones. The discussion explores how these experiences can mirror symptoms of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD).** Listen to uncover the surprising ways arrest can disrupt lives. Head...
2024-09-1247 miniChange Justice#141 iChange Justice Podcast-Jails, Bonds, & Bond Markets.In this episode of the iChange Justice podcast, host Joy Gilfilen explores the hidden world of financial markets and their connection to our justice system. She interviews a Wall Street bond trader to uncover how arrests are transformed into financial assets that are traded on the stock market.
This episode sheds light on the complex and often invisible ways that money influences our justice system. Gilfilen highlights the lack of transparency in the process, where people working within the system often don't understand the bigger picture.
The podcast follows the journey of a case, from...
2024-07-1852 miniChange Justice#139 iChange Justice Podcast "The Business of Incarceration from the Inside" with Joy Gilfilin and guest Thomas C.Join host Joy Gilfilen as she talks with Thomas C., a man who has experienced the justice system firsthand. Thomas shares his story of growing up in a difficult environment and having his first encounter with law enforcement at a young age.
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As a current inmate, Thomas offers a unique perspective on the high costs of incarceration and the challenges within the system. He discusses concerns that the system prioritizes keeping people incarcerated rather than focusing on rehabilitation, education, and supporting inmates' return to their families and communities as productive members of...
2024-07-0440 miniChange Justice#134-iChange Justice Podcast- Paul Levy -"Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that Plagues Our World "#134-iChange Justice Podcast with Joy Gilfilen and Paul Levy, the author of "Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that Plagues Our World " and how this contagious psycho-spirtual disease of the soul, is a parasite of the mind. Host Joy Gilfilen, as the Executive Director of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, dives deeper into the subject to understand how the behavior of leaders in the incarceration industry intersects with the psychosis he talks about as "Malignant Egophrenia" (ME) and then more colloquially the "Mad Emperor Disease".
The discussion includes how the true nature of what we view as division in the...
2024-05-3054 miniChange Justice#132- iChange Justice Podcast - Joy Gilfilen-Galtung's Conflict, Trauma, and Violence TrianglesichangejusticeHost Joy Gilfilen talks about Galtung's Conflict, Trauma, and Violence Triangles with Karen Ball and Kurt Krueger. How do his original concepts offer new ways to understand the complexity of contradictions that permeate our current world? It is at the point where human, business and government systems collide.
They discuss how the original constitutional idea of having a triad based structure (the Executive, Legislative, Judicial branches of government) breaks apart when we leave behavior out of the conversation when we create only two courts to handle conflicts: the civil and criminal courts. How does that work? It...
2024-05-1644 miniChange Justice#129 iChange Justice Podcast , “ The Gathering of the Eagles" with Phreddie Xwenang Lane and host Joy Gilfilen.Host Joy Gilfilen talks with Phreddie Xwenang Lane about how justice connects with the indigenous people of the Salish Sea, and The Gathering of the Eagles events happening in May in the San Juan Islands. Specifically on May 25, the Coast Salish Tribal Canoe Journey will bring four tribal canoes ashore to do sacred ceremonies at WayPoint Park on the banks of Whatcom Creek in downtown Bellingham! People are invited to join the celebrations, the fair and the historical gathering! This is an international potlatch style event as part of the Memorial Day weekend celebrations associated with the Mt. Baker...
2024-04-2555 miniChange Justice#124-iChange Justice Podcast - "The Betrayal - Origin Story" Joy Gilfilen interviews Patricia Anne Davis, a Navajo elder,#124-iChange Justice Podcast- "The Betrayal - Origin Story"-Patricia Anne Davis, a Navajo elder.
Joy Gilfilen interviews Patricia Anne Davis, a Navajo elder, about her reflections about the business of justice as it relates directly to her study of the Origin and Betrayal Stories of her culture and their language.Her basic analysis of violence, monetary systems, and the jail and justice industries reveals patterns that permeate our worlds. Her research has allowed her to get to the roots of it all so she can tell the stories in a way that enables us all to understand the...
2024-03-2158 miniChange Justice#123 iChange Justice Podcast "The Power of Art, Expression and Leadership", The “Business of Justice” and “Singing for Peace...""The power of Art, Expression and Leadership as it relates to the “Business of Justice”with Host Joy Gilfilen, Irene Morgan and Shawn Gallaway"
“Singing for Peace and Justice”Shawn Gallaway, a Singer-Songwriter speaks with host Joy Gilfilen and Irene Morgan about the power of art, expression and leadership as it relates to the business of justice. As many of us know, music often paves the way for change. When the world is under great stress, often it is the music of love in action, that can make a difference. We all know that we are at "ChoicePo...
2024-03-1454 miniChange Justice#120-iChange Justice Podcast-Host Joy Gilfilen discusses with Christi Carey- "Teens, Training and Taxes"Host Joy Gilfilen discusses "Gaps & Needs for Financial and Life Skills Training" with Christi Carey, the founder of Teens, Training and Taxes, a non-profit foundation working with people who have been displaced by family crisis, poverty, homelessness, or an arrest and incarceration. - all situations where lives are thrown into upheaval.
Christi has professional degrees and direct lived experience in CA, AZ and WA as a mental health counselor, in-home counselor in foster homes, substitute teacher in juvenile detention and in the adult jail in AZ. She has taught at alternative high schools, community colleges, at tribal...
2024-02-2245 miniChange Justice#117 "Providing Hands-Up Support in Tiny Dome Villages." with Maryam Sharifi, founder of the Global Enlightenment Academy and Host Joy Gilfilen"Providing Hands-Up Support in Tiny Dome Villages."Host Joy Gilfilen discusses how education, mentoring and building tiny dome homes in intentional communities is a vision of Maryam Sharifi, founder of the Global Enlightenment Academy. Standing up for justice has been a part of her life since growing up in Persia, in a culture where arranged teen marriages were common. Maryam started learning about self-value, building emotional strength in the face of adversity, and began studying peace, how to envision a new future, and studied business. She moved to the US, started building a new life, in a world...
2024-02-0159 miniChange Justice#116-iChange Justice Podcast -“Deescalating Conflict” Part 2 -Civic Cafe with Host Joy Gilfilen, Karen Ball and Debbie David.Joy Gilfilen, Karen Ball and Debbie David discuss the gaps in communication, the habit pattern of creating dualistic conflict, and then getting stuck. we have the opportunity to do restorative justice. restorative circles, peace circles and other methods of increasing understanding of the complex challenges we have today.The the level of complexity from local problems to state, national and global requires the ability of people to perceive things and learn to communicate in a way that allows people to listen to the challenges that others are facing.In this episode we discuss conflict we discuss how...
2024-01-2656 miniChange Justice#114 iChange Justice Podcast -“Trauma-Informed Workplace Toolkit" with Debbie David and Host Joy GilfilenJoy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice podcast interviews Debbie David about discovering the Trauma-Informed Workplace Toolkit. Then she highlights the deep research of Gabor Mate as a medical doctor and author of many books related to traumed informed healing from addiction, understanding ADD, the ripple effects of intergenerational and historical trauma on families.
People in the crisis industries, first responders, law enforcement, mental health providers and caregivers are often so busy with the urgency of what happens that they do not take the time for person care. Emotional trauma is often misunderstood and ignored as a root...
2024-01-1147 miniChange Justice#109 iChange Justice Podcast: " Peace Games" with Guest Miranda Clendening, Host Joy GilfilenHost of iChange Justice, Joy Gilfilen talks with Miranda Clendening about the community change game Peace2030.earth. It is the newest 2024 global mentoring and support platform online that helps thousands of people around the globe to unite with visions and strategies, then to learn from each other how to do local neighborhood and group projects in our own farms and cities.
Miranda shares how she worked in Crestone, Colorado on multiple food sovereignty, and homelessness projects that have really made a huge difference in that community, and we discussed the history of how the peace flame was...
2023-12-0744 miniChange Justice#108-iChange Justice- Peace2030.earth with Miranda Clendening and host Joy GilfilenJoy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, talks with Miranda Clendening about the community change game Peace2030.earth. It is the newest 2024 global mentoring and support platform online that helps thousands of people around the globe to unite with visions and strategies then to learn from each other how to do local neighborhood and group projects in our farms and cities.
Miranda shares how she worked in Crestone, Colorado on multiple food sovereignty homeless projects that have really made a huge difference in that community, and we discussed the history of how the peace flame was carried around...
2023-11-3044 miniChange Justice#107-iChange Justice Podcast, "Empowering Enterprising Actions in Communities" with James White and host Joy Gilfilen#107-iChange Justice Podcast, "Empowering Enterprising Actions in Communities" with James White and host Joy Gilfilen, unveils new ways that non-profits in small-town communities can link up to help each other find gaps so they can mutually adapt to the human needs in 2023.
The last few years have affected families, businesses, and community relationships and set us up for loneliness and isolation. This has caused unexpected ripple effects of dehumanization.
The research efforts that have come as ESATTA - the Empowering Self-Advocates To Take Action group have been bringing back their boots-on-the-ground research into three different...
2023-11-2359 miniChange Justice#106-iChange Justice Podcast-"Authentic Authority" with Kurt Krueger, Karen Ball and our Host, Joy GilfilenJoy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice Podcast, discusses "Authentic Authority" with Kurt Krueger and Karen Ball. This is the last in a series of conversations inside a community about justice - as part of our Civic Cafe series.
It's all about how we see ourselves in a conflicted world where many people are focused on speaking correctly, or in different, changing situations; we are often boxed into a certain silo or group situation. We do not learn to use our own "voice" or the voice of our experience...and therefore, we lose touch with who we...
2023-11-1645 miniChange Justice#98 iChange Justice Podcast, "Regenerative Economics" with Joy Gilfilen and Marc Santos of NobleGoldman.comJoy 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, we do a flashback into history.
Marc explains how changes in monetary policies going back to the 70s an...
2023-10-2058 miniChange Justice#93-iChange Justice Podcast "Authentic Authority with Kurt Krueger and Joy GilfilenJoy 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 situations involving police and other intense conflict situations. He discusses how his mastery of personal authority gave him the skills to...
2023-09-1545 miniChange Justice#92-iChange Justice Podcast "Ancestors of the Future" with Joy Gilfilen and Guest "Eve"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 women that fed over into the white dominator caste systems, poverty, and police family history. Eve talks about how she had to do deep emotional healing to connect with Mother...
2023-09-0847 miniChange Justice#91 iChange Justice Podcast -"Regenerative Action in Community" with Joy Gilfilen and Alex McLeaniChange 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 failures, regulatory capture, the social justice impacts of climate change that are leading ultimately to systems collapse. The question is - what can...
2023-09-0158 miniChange Justice#90 iChange Justice Podcast with Joy Gilfilen and Ava Sakowski "Heartaches, Hope and Healing"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. Traveling along real-life trails, from early childhood, she developed deep empathy and compassion and did social work with addicted, traumatized people, until she...
2023-08-2558 miniChange Justice#88-iChange Justice Podcast- Rehumanizing Systems with Debbie David, James White and Joy GilfilenJoy 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 person-centered thinking to help his organization shift their behaviors to get better results.
Debbie David has worked from the mental health, care-giving side with homeless...
2023-08-1154 miniChange Justice#85- iChange Justice Podcast -"Leadership in the 21st Century" with Atul Deshmane and Joy GilfilenAtul 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 groupthink. Today, we are in a new fractured and divided society, where profits, algorithms, media spin-doctoring, false facts, speculation, and sheer and blatan...
2023-07-2153 miniChange Justice#83 iChange Justice Podcast, “What about Taxes-How do Taxes Work? with Steve Harris and host Joy Gilfilen 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 interview with Steve Harris, a 27-year veteran of law enforcement. He has been studying how taxes work...
2023-07-0758 miniChange Justice#81-iChange Justice Podcast - Inclusion Project: Hands Across the Border, James White and Joy GilfilenJoy 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 challenges they have lived through themselves, they have experience and a gift for teaching others how to learn about self-leadership, empowerment, and how...
2023-06-2351 miniChange Justice#80 iChange Justice Podcast with Joy Gilfilen "Money Matters & Siloes"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 or cause # (a ticket) given by a police officer...
2023-06-1652 miniChange Justice#78 iChange Justice Podcast -Joy Gilfilen and Marc Santos "Regenerative Economics"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, we do a flashback into history.
Marc explains how changes in monetary policies going back to the 70s an...
2023-06-0258 miniChange Justice#76 iChange Justice Podcast “Failures in the Local Prosecutor’s Justice System” with Irene Morgan and Host Joy Gilfilen.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 bookings and time served, why they have charges pending and more. Every jurisdiction is different...
2023-05-1953 miniChange Justice#69 iChange Justice Podcast, “It's All About Prevention & Intervention” with Host Joy Gilfilen and Debbie David
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 producing serious gaps in support for the parents and providers themselves, which in turn contributes to a rise in suicides...
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iChange Justice#68 iChange Justice Podcast, Joy Gilfilen and Jason McGill, the Executive Director of Northwest Youth Services” Working with Displaced and Homeless Youth in Bellingham”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 incident where the police were confronting the issues of extreme homelessness with a sweep of Camp 210.
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2023-03-2445 miniChange Justice#67 iChange Justice Podcast “CORE Mental Health Services” with Ben Hoppie, Mental Health Practitioner, and Trisha Johnston, Peer Counselor and Host Joy GilfilenJoy 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 to work hands-on with police, in court and in the emergency department at the hospital to intercept lives at the crisis point, where people can be coached...
2023-03-1747 miniChange Justice#66 iChange Justice Podcast "Community Integrated Services Matters", with John, a Peer Counselor in the Justice System and Host Joy GilfileniChange 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 success of people who are dealing with life challenges, different kinds of trauma, addiction, or abuse. Their supportive...
2023-03-1048 miniChange Justice#65 Joy Gilfilen, the host of iChange Justice, engages Reverend Mel Hoover by asking; "How can we learn together how to navigate into a new economy post covid?"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 change agent. Over 60 years he's successfully worked to create a beloved...
2023-03-031h 07iChange Justice#64 Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice podcast talks with Lee Rusch, Director of the Westside Heroin and Opioid Task ForceJoy 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 trends in policing and policy-making have contributed to the problems we have...
2023-02-2551 miniChange Justice#63 Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice podcast, interviews a native grandmother who discusses the critical importance community networks and family support.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 connection to the earth, then cultural dance were needed along with the relationship building and connecting with others at...
2023-02-1749 miniChange Justice#62 Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice talks with Atul, member of Whatcom County Stakeholders Advisory CommitteeJoy 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 view as an engineer, as a businessman, and from his experience in policy making as a Whatcom County...
2023-02-1056 miniChange Justice#61 Joy Gilfilen, Hosts of iChange Justice, discusses post-pandemic human fallout from multiple years of economic domination with Irene MorganIrene 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 networks.
Ironically, few of us realized that virtually the whole economy ended up being either directly or indirectly controlled by the operating 'command and...
2023-02-0255 miniChange Justice#60 iChange Justice Podcast - Civic Violence and Trauma-Camp 210-Whatcom County-2021Joy 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 military-style force, bringing in heavy equipment, riot gear, guns, snipers, drones and cordoned off multiple blocks surrounding the entire civic center...
2023-01-2757 miniChange Justice#58 iChange Justice host Joy Gilfilen discusses "The Domination Effect" with Beth Brownfield an activist who has work with original nations peopleThursday 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 conflicts and escalating injustice in U.S. and statewide constitutional law. Its impact is rippling out...
2023-01-1350 miniChange Justice#57 iChange Justice Podcast discusses "Compassionate Action" between Ruth Ann Lonardelli and Joy Gilfilen, the host of iChange Justice."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 disasters, being travel limited, and having our social and business networks closed down are disrupting our lives.
Annie is...
2023-01-0644 miniChange Justice#56 Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice talks with a father of a young woman dealing with Fentanyl addiction issues and the trying to find a path to recovery.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 emotional, physical and psychological trauma on the family as they face...
2022-12-2947 miniChange Justice#54 John Fitzpatrick joins Joy Gilfilen, to discuss his life behind bars, and afterwards since release and successful reintegration into society.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 earned certificates in Water Treatment and Wastewater Treatment and won a Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs TV Show) Scholarship as a mobile...
2022-12-1651 miniChange Justice#52 iChange Justice Podcast with Joy Gilfilin and featured guest Irene Morgan speaking about "expungement of records"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. Irene has learned how the aftereffects of job loss, homelessness, poverty, and the exponential impact of expenses lea...
2022-12-0248 miniChange Justice#50 Rebuilding our Community Safety NetIn 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 provided services were made available for high-risk teenagers to prevent drug abuse when they needed it most. The discussion c...
2022-11-111h 02iChange Justice#49 iChange Justice host Joy Gilfilen, interviews Paxton, a Life StoryiChange 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 of transportation. In some cases, real m...
2022-11-0346 miniChange Justice#48 iChange Justice Podcast "Bringing Peace to Justice in a Divided Nation"Marc Santos, the Founder of Noble Goldman and Host Joy GilfilenTomorrow 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 human potential and quantum sciences, the talk is about how it works that we can bring peace to a world in conflict, and specifically to a world plagued by war, vio...
2022-10-2858 miniChange Justice#47 iChange Justice Podcast "Recognizing New Opportunities for Change" with guests Mel Hoover and Rose Edington and Joy Gilfilen, Host.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 more robust conversations. Together we shared many tools we can use to address the complex 21st-century issues of institutionalized commerce, political polarization, and...
2022-10-211h 02iChange Justice#46 iChange Justice Podcast, "Prisoners are Human Too" with and Host Joy Gilfilen and Guest, Jerome Gold, Author and former Juvenile Rehabilitation CounselorJoy 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 therapies can be used to support healthier relationships. His most notable comment is that in writing laws, making decisions about how to reduce crime and...
2022-10-141h 04iChange Justice#45 iChange Justice Podcast, Reflections on a courageous leader featuring RCC Leadership Joy Gilfilen, Irene Morgan and Chene KeltzWith 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 of the normal life skills then as...
2022-10-0747 miniChange Justice#44 Lived Life Experience Story with Chene Keltz, iChange Justice Podcast with Joy Gilfililin, president of the Restorative Community CoalitionThis 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 patterns of establishment history that continue to hurt us, unwittingly, hundreds of years after these systems were originally conceived.
J...
2022-09-3048 miniChange Justice#43 James White of the ESATTA Cooperative discusses Healing the Civic Heart with Joy Gilfilen, iChange Justice Podcast.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 administrators working inside the government systems and directly as a field worker across BC and in the...
2022-09-2348 miniChange Justice#41 Community Alternatives & Justice with Karen Ball, from the Grassroots Compassionate San Antonio and Joy Gilfilen President Restorative Community CoalitioniChange 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 activism to yield far better results for people torn apart by civic stress. She gives examples of how she has worked at the intersections of professional, mentoring, educational, and...
2022-09-091h 05iChange Justice#40 iChange Justice Podcast "Healed People-Heal People" welcomes Guest Franklyn Smith with "Freedom Project WA"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 Start Professional Services, understands different viewpoints and talks frankly about the difference...
2022-09-0259 miniChange Justice#39 The Value of Having Lived Experience" is with Don Kirchner interviewed by Joy Gilfilen, iChange Justice podcast host.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 juveniles and others in jail, break the cycle much sooner!
Don then used t...
2022-08-2650 miniChange Justice#38 iChange Justice Podcast "Monopolies and Justice Systems" with Bo Richardson and Joy Gilfilen, Host
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
2022-08-1953 miniChange Justice#37 iChange Justice Podcast "A Historical Opportunity for American Leadership" with Global Economist Ilona Krohn and host Joy GilfilenHost 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 poverty, wars, historical and intergenerational conflict. We are at a point of optimal leverage for making a difference...
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2022-08-1255 miniChange Justice#36 iChange Justice podcast "Human Conflicts and Civic Betrayals" with guest Markis Dee and Host Joy Gilfilen, President of the Restorative CommUnity CoalitioniChange 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 of extreme weather events can cause people to crack, go into depression, hopelessness, despair, shame, anger, and more as people...
2022-08-0451 miniChange Justice#35 Rebuilding with the Homeless in Whatcom County, with Doug Gustafson and Host Joy Gilfilen, President of the Restorative CommUnity CoalitionJoy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice talks with Doug Gustafson, a local businessman and founder of Homes Now, Not Later. Since 2017, this grassroots non-profit has developed two tiny home villages in Bellingham, WA to help homeless people be sheltered and safe - Unity Village and Swift Haven. They operate on a smart economic model where the residents run the programs, and therefore the villages operate without any paid staff. Doug is a businessman himself, so understands the complications of working in the very human space between government and freedom.
Dough explains how the self-management, empowerment, and regenerative nature...
2022-07-2954 miniChange Justice#33 Children in Prison with Jerome Gold and Host Joy Gilfilen, iChange Justice Podcast Episode 33In Episode 33, Joy Gilfilen, podcast host, speaks with Children in Prison author Jerome Gold who worked inside the Echo Glen Juvenile Corrections Center as a rehabilitation counselor for 15 years. This is a rare look inside the ways that the Washington State children’s prison operates. It opens the mind to new views about how children who have been convicted of felonies are treated and how sincere rehabilitation is necessary to help children change course in life.
An anthropologist and Vietnam Veteran, Gold is a publisher who has also written two other documentary books about children in prison including...
2022-07-1552 miniChange Justice#32 iChange Justice podcast-Taxes Don’t Solve Crime with Economist Ilona Krohn with Host Joy Gilfilen
Host Joy Gilfilen interviews Ilona Krohn, an economist, who talks about how local taxes, governance, and crime is impacted by the embedded behaviors of global economic business models. It is a different view obscured by the common belief that profits are considered good business in most situations. Yet, profits are contrary to good business when we are trying to solve the challenges of social services, public health, wellness, and human happiness. Ilona unpacks how the hidden and embedded conflicts create destructive financial behaviors in different public, bureaucratic, NGOs, and corporate systems that can spawn increases in...
2022-07-0846 min
iChange Justice#31“Rehumanizing our Systems” with James White, ESATTA Cooperative, and hos t Joy Gilfilen, Restorative Community Coalition.iChange Justice, “Rehumanizing our Systems” with James White, ESATTA Cooperative, and host Joy Gilfilen, Restorative Community Coalition.
“It’s time to bring truth and reconciliation, new research, compassion, forgiveness, and inclusionary leadership into our community services,” says James. “In fact, it’s decades past time to work with people who have lived experience, mental health labels, and what I call "diverse abilities."
"In Vancouver, BC we’ve been a hotspot for leading-edge research into the neurosciences, healing from addiction, abuse, criminalization, and with the 1st Nations people who have been harmed by the Reservation Schools.”
“In July, the...
2022-07-0149 miniChange Justice#30 iChange Justice Podcast, Facing Today’s Challenges, with Joy Gilifilen, and guest, Deb DavidEpisode #30 -Facing Today’s Challenges
How do we face the challenges of today? Host Joy Gilfilen talks with Deb David about what she has learned about ACE's - Adverse Childhood Experiences as it applies to early childhood trauma impacts; then how this relates to the repetitive systemic violence that is affecting us across generations and impacting our emotions and our ability to function in emergencies and in crisis situations.
Deb has been involved in researching and studying the impacts of the law and justice system as an employee, as a home care aid, as a pa...
2022-06-2458 miniChange Justice#29 iChange Justice podcast - Clylde Ford speaks on "Put the Public back into Public Safety" with Host, Joy Gilfilen, President of the Restorative Community CoalitionJoy Gilfilen, the host of iChange Justice, talks with author, professor, and psycho-therapist Clyde Ford about public safety relative to his local experiences living and doing business here in Whatcom County. As a documentary author, professor, and global citizen, he has done several significant books that intersect with our issues such as "Think Black", and his new book "Of Blood and Sweat".
Clyde talks candidly about what he sees happening in Bellingham regarding public safety...and how it is time to put "the public" back in "Public Safety". He discusses the history of racism and business development goin...
2022-06-1749 miniChange Justice#28 iChange Justice, "Speaking of Case Interception" , with Host Joy Gilfilen and guest, Chene KeltzLet's talk with a client and with her mentor, Chene Keltz, one of our Restorative Community Coalition specialists about restorative justice and case management. In this "live" interview, Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, asks what it takes to humanize an inhumane system? In this case to help a person dig out of the after-affects, side effects, and ripple effects that a conviction leaves on your life, on your family's life - forever!
Our client is being challenged to right a wrong that makes no sense. How can she get a driver’s license, when she was given...
2022-06-1044 miniChange Justice#27 iChange Justice Podcast - Joy Gilfilen interviews S.O.S. and the Homeless CrisisS.O.S. and the Homeless Crisis
What made the 2021 homeless crisis so acute in Whatcom County? In this interview, Joy Gilfilen interviews Serenity Outreach Services Executive Director Melissa Wisener. Hear 1st hand from someone who was “boots on the ground” in freezing weather, at night, providing emergency provisions for people living in the streets as the Covid Emergency Disaster problem was in its 2nd year. Hear her explain in a non-political, very human, and logical way how the acute and highly emotionally charged issues get that way. It’s personal, it’s life challenging and raw…and it opens o...
2022-06-031h 04iChange Justice#26 is a Rebroadcast of Episode 16 with Host Joy Gilfilen and guest, Atul Deshmane,"Solving Public Safety Needs".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 Whatcom County Public Utilities District Commi...
2022-05-2757 miniChange Justice#25 iChange Justice podcast "Understanding Public Sector Corporations" with Host Joy Gilfilen and guest Atul DeshmaneHost Joy Gilfilen interviews guest Atul Deshmane about "Understanding Public Sector Corporations''. Atul speaks from personal experience in very clear language about how public and private-sector corporations are structured and operate.
This opens the conversation where Atul and Joy discuss how this may be different still from how many other non-corporate business people believe they work. And then how this in turn creates a ripple effect and more confusion in civic conversations and politics and when talking about taxes, responsibilities, liabilities, and more.
For example, Whatcom County is a public sector...
2022-05-201h 00iChange Justice#24 iChange Justice Podcast, and there's more, Hosted by Joy Gilfilen, President of the RCC and guest Chene KeltzIChange Justice podcast "Wait there's more..."-hosted by Joy Gilfilen Interviews Chene' Keltz *(see below)
What is the more…? Joy Gilfilen, our host continues to discuss with Chene, her experience as Chene returned to society with sons, family dynamics that had not been discussed, and specifically the transition period from being incarcerated to becoming an allegedly “free” person as an adult. She exited the prison system as a mother, intending to become a working person, yet branded with an “F for Felon" stamped on her record for life.
What are some hidden sand traps and emotionally...
2022-05-1344 min
iChange Justice#22 iChange Justice Podcast "If I told you: with Host Joy Gilfilen and guest Chene Keltz, Client Advocate, Restorative Community CoalitionA rare look through the eyes of someone whose life has intersected with the law and justice system over decades.
For 15 years Chene’ has been juggling the aftermath of many things including post-arrest, incarceration, and reintegration into society. The effects have rippled outward into her family’s lives, professional affiliations as well as community service positions. What she has to say will be shocking to many, it will be a relief for some and even better a wake-up call for anyone who believes they know what life is really like.
Chene’ has lived experiences from outside...
2022-04-2952 miniChange Justice#21 iChange Justice Podcast, What are Blind Spots? Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition and Blind Spots Series.iChange Justice podcast #21-Seeing through blind spots to Civic Trauma
Joy Gilfilen, mother and taxpayer, talks about her life experiences and learning curve living in Whatcom County since the 70’s and witnessing the changes in local to global law and justice issues up close and personal. Joy, the president of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition shares how her views created different kinds of beliefs, blinders, and blind spots as a student, a businesswoman, a mother, and a civic leader. Each had its related behaviors, trust, and trauma points that allowed her to navigate the world of business, taxes, sa...
2022-04-2259 miniChange Justice#19 iChange Justice Podcast - What is Restore a Life Center? Joy Gilfilen and Irene Morgan Founder of Restorative Community Coalition and The Restore Life CenterHost Joy Gilfilen with guest Irene Morgan about Vision, Programs and ReStoreALife Center. This is a fresh, compassionate, and practical look at how we could do more justice by solving the human problems that complicate recovery after an incident throws a family into the jail, court, and justice system and they cannot get out by themselves. It’s complex and unwieldy, as Irene Morgan, the Founder of the Restorative Community Coalition, explains in this call. The RestoreALife Center strategy is all about creating an emergency safety net to help people who are dealing with trauma while they are floundering th...
2022-04-081h 15iChange Justice#18 iChange Justice Podcast "Law & Peace Series: Where do we Draw the Line?" Hosted by Joy Gilfilen and The Restorative Community CoalitionOpening 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?
This first episode of this series addresses why do these branches of service matter? What is it like to walk on...
2022-04-0157 miniChange Justice#17 iChange Justice Podcast - One Engineer's View on Solving The Public's Safety Needs, Hosted by Joy Gilfilen and The Restorative ComUnity CoalitionHow 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 Whatcom County Public Utilities District Commissioner, and has been a Board...
2022-03-2557 miniChange Justice#16 iChange Justice podcast, "Young and Homeless"Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative Community Coalition
“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 2020 Annual Report and yet where are the ‘boots on the ground’ services to keep youth wi...
2022-03-1751 miniChange Justice#15 iChange Podcast "The Money Pit Part 2" Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative Community CoalitionDriver’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 white ‘loss of drivers license for 99 years” how then can a...
2022-03-1154 miniChange Justice#14 iChange Justice Podcast "The Money Pit" Part 1 Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative Community CoalitionHave 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 back into our community?
Our guests speak candidly about the impacts from...
2022-03-041h 09iChange Justice#13 iChange Justice Podcast, Reality Check- "One Crisis Away from Homelessness" Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative Community Coalition.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 has have left impounded or stolen, living in harm's way without physical safety, and co...
2022-02-2544 miniChange Justice#12 iChange Justice Podcast Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition. "What is Restorative Justice?"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 family members…ALL PARTIES.
We know humans on some level want to he...
2022-02-1848 miniChange Justice#11 iChange Podcast "Real People Real Gaps" Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative Community Coalition (Rebroadcast)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, services, and justice.
Mental health issues of all types have skyrocketed throughout this...
2022-02-1153 miniChange Justice#10 iChange Podcast -"Real People Real Gaps" Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative Community CoalitionIs 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 this pandemic, while at the same time, our community health and public safety people have been overworked. We m...
2022-02-0453 miniChange Justice#09 iChange Justice Podcast "Community Safety Nets" Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative CommUnity CoalitionCommunity 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 his orchestration and implementation of the ‘Re-Entry University’, a curriculum...
2022-01-281h 11iChange Justice#08 iChange Justice Podcast - "Public Safety" Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative Community CoalitionWhat 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 so do the services that used to ex...
2022-01-211h 15iChange Justice#07 iChange Justice Podcast "Civic Intervention" Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative CommUnity CoalitionIs 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, we are talking about ‘hard stuff’ that gets swept unde...
2022-01-1456 miniChange Justice#06 iChange Podcast - "Paradoxes" Hosted by Joy Gilfilen President of the Restorative CommUnity CoalitionParadigms, 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 doing in the justice system since we are #1 at inc...
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