In our final episode this season of “Community Voices of Healing, Reflection and Hope,” Maxayn Gooden sits down with Jamal Pennock to hear his story of redemption and what motivates him to speak to our black young men about changing their lives.

Donna Boyd and Tara Fears sit down to share their experiences of losing their sons to gun violence and learn from each other about the transition from grief to healing.

My guest is Quinn Patton, the father of my son who was innocently murdered during Thanksgiving break 2017.  

This is the first conversation like this we’ve had.

He will share his experience as a father losing a son, but also the importance of Black men allowing themselves to feel and understand it’s okay to ask for help.

Community Voices of Healing, Reflection and Hope is a new podcast from the Credible Messenger Reporting Project at the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting (PCGVR). Host and executive producer Maxayn Gooden is the Credible Messenger Community Manager at PCGVR. She interviews and facilitates conversations with other members of the survivor community in Philadelphia, taking the time to share their experiences in a safe place and in exceptional depth. Their Credible Messenger Reporting Project was created to report on root causes, lived experience, and possible solutions to gun violence from the community perspective.

What if gun violence didn't just affect survivors? In this conversation, Maxayn talks with gunshot survivor Oronde McClain about his project They Don't Care About Us- or Do They?  and the experience he had with the Credible Messenger Reporting Project. 

What if journalists approached gun violence from a different approach? In this conversation, Maxayn talked with Ernest Owens about this and how it relates to his upcoming project with gun violence prevention activist Tyrique Glasgow as a part of the Credible Messenger Reporting Project.  Owens, the Editor-at-Large at Philadelphia Magazine and President of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, gives insight on what he would like to see more out of today's journalists when it comes to gun violence reporting.