iChange Justice Season 5

Find new episodes of the iChange Justice Podcast locally at noon on Thursdays on KOYS-LPFM 94.1-Bellingham and at 1:00 PM on Thursdays anywhere you get your podcasts. Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice, introduces John and Wes, two different men putting their lives back together after incarceration and then helping others get back on their feet. They talk about what it was like re-entering soci...

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice podcast interviews a woman who went "on walkabout" down I-5 this past year, living homeless. She has been an advocate for social issues of poverty, mental health, public safety and homelessness and shares what she learned. How have cities adapted in the past two years to the civic crisis issues, to the injection of CARES dollars for emergency interve...

Host 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...

Joy 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 work...

#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...

Joy 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 ar...

Please find us First Locally at Noon on Thursdays on KOYS-LPFM 94.1-Bellingham and at 6:PM everywhere you get your podcasts. #105  -Rewind -"Children in Prison".  Author Jerome Gold was a rehabilitation counselor at the Echo Glen Juvenile Corrections Center for 15 years.  This is a rare look inside how the  Washington State children’s prison operates.  It opens the mind to new views abou...

Please find us at Noon On KOYS-LPFM 94.1, everywhere you get your podcasts. Civic Cafe Series Running Weekdays until November 7th. Thank you to KOYS-LPFM 94.1 for supporting this Series and our 104th Podcast. Support us as we move into Season 3 in 2024. Why Community-Based Living Economies Matter! Talking with Ranger Kidwell-Ross, the founder of  WorldSweeper.com , an author, musician, economist,...

Please find us at Noon On KOYS-LPFM 94.1 and everywhere you get your podcasts. Today at Noon iChange Justice- Humane Justice Series- Thank you to Local Station KOYS-LPFM 94.1 for supporting this Series, which runs weekdays until Nov. 7th When law enforcers want to build Corrections Industries compounds, and the voters want prevention and intervention, What are the chaos, the conflict, and the misc...

iChange Justice- Humane Justice Series- Thank you to Local Station KOYS-LPFM 94.1 for supporting this Series, which runs weekdays until Nov. 7th "Intentionally Changing Leadership & Incarceration Systems" with Ian Lewis Joy Gilfilen hosted a conference series on Humanity Rising with Ian Lewis, Founder of  LifeCollege.org , as a guest in 2022, that inspires us today to think beyond ol...

iChange Justice Podcast with Host Joy Gilfilen Civic Cafe Series: Humane Justice runs weekdays until Nov. 7th Find us at Noon On KOYS-LPFM 94.1 and everywhere you get your podcasts. Civic Cafe -3 "Beyond the Chaos" with Don Kirchner, a man who spent time behind bars, shares his lived experience about working with "inmates and outmates" to: 1) help them re-enter society more saf...

Civic Cafe Series: Humane Justice Derek Worchel, a local Realty Agent and General Contractor, brought true reality to the Civic Cafe conversation: "If voters pass this sales tax bond proposal, where are our tax dollars going?" What is the community you want to live in? Do you really want a “PrisonTown” economy to be the center of commerce in our County? Yes, it's Ferndale - right at...

Episode 1 Civic Cafe Series: Social Services Then and Now! Ava Sakowski, a former Substance Abuse Counselor from the early '70s to 94, discusses what’s changed. The move from local community prevention and intervention services to more after-the-fact medical model rehabilitation. The move from doing alternatives before arrest to reentry after arrests. The intervention, outreach, and peer couns...

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...

#97 iChange Justice Podcast features Paul Levy, the author of "Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that Plagues Our World " about 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 in...

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, opens a conversation with a Wall Street bond market trader about how an arrest generates papers that become municipal assets traded on the stock market.  This brings a new level of discussion to the tangled-up business of justice, and to the distortions that happen in our society as we get more siloed in our jobs.    In investigative journalism, people often...

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

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

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice Podcast speaks about Authentic Authority with Kurt Krueger, founder of the Peace Labs, Peacemaking Circles, and Author of the best-selling Winning Ways for Living series. Kurt discusses his learning curve first as a knowledge authority and elite athlete, teacher, international coach, and founder of the Institute of Sports Psychology in India, Stockholm, Los An...

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 fa...

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

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, a...

iChange Justice Host Joy Gilfilen interviews James White about how his own attitudes of leadership have changed over decades of working within institutions that were controlled from the top down with very rigid systems. James' expertise is working with people who have been boxed in by being labeled with a disability, which creates a habit of disempowerment and co-dependency. Instead, he create...

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

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