iChange Justice host Joy Gilfilen discusses "Community Alternatives & Justice" with Karen Ball, from the Grassroots Compassionate San Antonio project in Texas. Karen is bringing her boots on the ground knowledge in doing prevention and intervention at the community level together with her institutional knowledge of civic engagement and the criminal justice field.

Karen clearly shows how the divergent parts of policing, courts, and corrections can be humanized and reknit through community 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 inside families to inspire change.