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 among other members of the survivor community in Philadelphia, taking the time to share their experiences in a safe place and in extraordinary depth.
Episode Three: Motivated

This week: Jamal Pennock shares his story and what motivates him to speak to young Black young men about changing their lives. LISTEN & SHARE: VIDEO | AUDIO
Episode Two: Learning from each other

This week: Tara Fears and Donna Boyd sit down to share the stories of losing their sons to gun violence, but more so learn from each other the transition from grief to healing. LISTEN & SHARE: AUDIO | VIDEO
Episode One: Learning to Cope

The first episode will be very different from the others: Maxayn Gooden sits down with Quinn Patton for the first time in six years son their son Jah’sun was innocently murdered in November, 2017. Quinn discusses how he was affected but more so what helped him to cope. LISTEN & SHARE: AUDIO | VIDEO
Trailer

Community Voices of Healing, Reflection and Hope is a new podcast coming soon 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 among other members of the survivor community in Philadelphia, taking the time to share their experiences in a safe place and in extraordinary depth. The Credible Messenger Reporting Project was created to report on root causes, lived experience and possible solutions to gun violence from the community perspective. LISTEN AND SHARE: AUDIO TRAILER / VIDEO TRAILER