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 between housing as different from community, about basic needs vs essential needs, then explains how the early wounding of the soul must be healed for all the rest to work.
Franklyn was the 1st justice-involved person hired to work on reentry services at the state level at WA Department of Corrections and is now working in non-profits to help us build bridges between all sectors of the community to heal our divides.