iChange Justice Season 5

This iChange Justice podcast about "Collaboratories" is a team interview with Mel Hoover and Rose Edington who talk about their experiences of learning to work with the wealth of diversity that emerged from their lives and why they founded MelRose Ministries for Positive Transformative Change! They seek to co-create Beloved Community in various settings that call for collaboration. MRM p...

Atul 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 e...

Tally Rabatin joins Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice in a discussion about how we can team up across sectors to learn how to invest differently in our communities to disrupt the unrelenting cycle of homelessness and degeneration that has been harming our children and families. What does it take to invest in prevention, intervention, re-education, and other new learning ways to promote sustain...

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 di...

iChange Justice host, Joy Gilfilen talks with Liz Darrow, producer of  CommunityVOZ , about the complexity of growing food in the 21st century.  Liz serves as the legislative advocate and media coordinator for Community to Community Development at  foodjustice.org , so has learned the complexities of how farmworkers are essential workers living in the spaces where climate change, disasters, jobs,...

Joy 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 (Empoweri...

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...

Joy Gilfilen, Host of IChange Justice, talks with Karen Ball, Ambassador for Compassionate Cities ab about the 2023 Mayor's Conference, where we hear from the Mayor of Miami, Fl, the Mayor of Tacoma, WA and the Mayor of San Antonio, TX talk about how each City is facing issues differently. Collectively they are each different, yet all are confronting a large array of natural and man-made disas...

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...

Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice podcast, discusses the heartbreak people face when systems we are told to trust are not trustworthy. While humans caught inside the system feel the pain, and pay extraordinary costs...the hurts and traumas run so deep it is difficult to talk about. Gina is one of our clients caught inside the facade of justice r running through hopeless hoops of bureaucrat...

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 unt...

iChange Justice Host Joy Gilfilen joins with Irene Morgan and Debbie David to discuss with our guest, Gina, what a broken "public safety" system looks like. It's her story of feeling sandbagged - going from being a solid, working class to homelessness, jailing and 10 years of punishment for grief. Punished and penalized by a system that doesn't work. Gina, was a working Mom findi...

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

Today's episode of iChange Justice with Host Joy Gilfilen is a conversation with Jason McGill.  He is the Executive Director of Northwest Youth Services and talks about how business practices have changed over the past few years after Covid changed everything.  Specifically, we address a phenomenon...that people are easily provoked to be hyper-reactive to speculative fear - fear that is not ba...

Host Joy Gilfilen starts a discussion with other members of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition about how the media has been working with high-level elected officials to convince the public to buy a $150,000,000 sales tax plan to go into a lifetime of debt to buy a new jail based on jail industry speculation. In the meantime, it puts the taxpayers in a real financial bind in the aftermath of the p...

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

As a wife of an incarcerated person herself, Kehaulani recently moved to Bellingham, to be close to her husband when he was released from prison. Just weeks before release, suddenly the Department of Corrections closed down the DOC Work Release facility apparently due to conflicts in contract negotiations. This meant that her husband was released into custody in Seattle and he got a job there, Sud...

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 wh...

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 civ...

Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice discusses with Ben Hoppie, Mental Health Practitioner, and Trisha Johnston, Peer Counselor the delightful way they work differently and together with other professionals in Cowlitz County to provide emergency services and essential support for people facing substance use, behavioral and mental health issues, homelessness, poverty, and various court and crimina...

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

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 ask...

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...

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...

Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice talks with Atul Deshmane, a member of the Whatcom County Stakeholders Advisory Committee about why he cast a dissenting vote against the majority members who were producing the jail building "Needs Assessment Report". It is a very informative discussion about policymakers' objectives inside the business of justice. Is there a better way of solving the real pov...