Inside Voice Magazine: Veterans Issue

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“Rebuild Your Mind: Mental Health Challenge”

Designed by: Markell D. Taylor Sr. #442813, DOC# 91167

Mental Health Patient/ Inmate & Co- founded by C. A. Shively for AYBO’S Marketing LLC

75: Mission statement

Mission Statement:

Our mission is to transform the world into the most efficient trauma informed, trauma conscience and trauma
responsive world we can possibly be TOGETHER. We will prevent and eliminate the continual perpetuation of
crime by providing Mental Health and Social Solution programs that are effective in any environment. It is
complicated to convince the public to care about these issues in the mental health community. Also, what is
often overlooked is that these individuals are human, and they are fathers, mothers, sons, daughters,
nephews, nieces, grandparents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, grandchildren, husbands and wives to
someone.
To continue the efforts of our team, it is imperative to support these types of initiatives. Another of the goals of
the campaign is to work with the Small Business and Mental Health Communities to raise enough money to
develop programs such as "The New Mirror Image Mental Health & Financial Solution Center". This would be a
new pilot program of Mental Health Solutions intertwined with personal finance and business development
courses. The program is designed to eradicate mental health disorders and poverty simultaneously.
Poverty is just one of the elements that breed and feed certain mental health or social disorders. Our objective
is to introduce to society a program where individuals who suffer from these disorders, that are tied directly to
their criminal thinking patterns and immature behavioral traits, can now come together as a team, to fight their
disorders collectively and start developing their own businesses.

76:How the challenge works

Mental and Social Health Challenge

We are finishing the last steps to our mental health challenge for all social media networks and targeted
audiences. Our AYBOS intern (Rosalinda Ortega- National Society of Collegiate Scholars UCD) filmed
professional videos for representatives of: The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 27 (Deputy Mike Jackson),
New Scholars Press, The Phoenix and several citizens of Denver and the metro surrounding areas. How this
challenge works is that an individual, or an advocate, goes on camera to expresses one of their mental
health experiences with the world. Then expresses how he/ she deals with their mental challenges in a
healthy or unhealthy way. This will show the individuals who are afraid to come forward in their mental
health experiences or challenges, that everyone has mental health issues, however, the normal person deals
with it on healthy terms. This will also show individuals that they are not alone in their own challenge and
that it is healthy to seek help.
Once our team introduces their Mental Health Challenge, then they can challenge anyone to come forward,
including national and state officials, a favorite actor, attorney, judge, newscaster, psychologist etc., or
anyone they feel will accept the challenge.

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Interview with Robert Ingram

INSIDE VOICE: What is it you do sir?
Mr. Ingram: I am a criminal defense attorney – a solo Practitioner

INSIDE VOICE: How long have you been doing that?
Mr. Ingram: Since 2005 about 13 years.

INSIDE VOICE: That is cool man. What made you get into this?
Mr. Ingram: Well I was a nurse a RN to be exact I was taking Psychology and Law classes then I
decided to go to get my law degree from the University of Wyoming.

INSIDE VOICE: How much schooling do you have?
Mr. Ingram: I have a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, a minor in African American Studies, and my
Juris doctorate.

INSIDE VOICE: Wow those are great accomplishments. You were also in the service right?
Mr. Ingram: Yes, I was. I was Combat Medic/L.P.N in the army for 7 ½ years.

INSIDE VOICE: What was the deciding factor for you to join the service?
Mr. Ingram: The deciding factor for was when my high school principal told me I would in up dead
or in jail, that really drove me to prove him wrong.

INSIDE VOICE: Would you suggest this younger generation to enter the service?
Mr. Ingram: Yes, I definitely would. Growing up in Aliquippa, PA when the steel mill went to hell
the military gave me an opportunity to make it out of the little town, I was destined to get in
trouble in. And my parents fully supported me joining the service.

INSIDE VOICE: As a black man who was destined to get in trouble myself, I want to thank you for
your service to our country and I really appreciate your story and input in this magazine it
definitely will be an inspiration to many. Anything else you wanna say?
Mr. Ingram: I want to say “Just because you got caught up doing something wrong doesn’t mean
you can’t fight your way out of it and get your life back on track”

Interviewed by
NEVASEEN

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Let The Veterans Speak
by Spencer A. Hamilton

After eight and a half years in the military that entailed (one enlistment in the Navy and
another in the Army) an operation Iraqi freedom and Haiti deployments along with

multiple other training detachments I found myself facing 96 years in prison for two first degree
attempted murders. Prison was inconceivable as I sank deeper into alcohol and the streets.
Knowing what was looming, I let my impulses take full control engaging in acts that would
have got me additional prison time. After being incarcerated, (I took a plea deal for 18 years)
I began analyzing my situation in retrospect, but not yet taking responsibility for my actions.
I had an idea something was wrong long before the military, friends dying, long before I fired
my first weapon. I’m known as an introverted person but, being introverted wasn’t always a
dimension if my personality, traumatic experiences were the cause of my conversation. Usually,
we’re taught at a very young age to suppress our emotions. Those suppressions, along with
traumatic encounters like beatings, sexual abuse, being a victim of or witnessing a violent or
life threating situation, poverty, or lacking effective emotional or physical attachment with
caregivers etc., will change a person’s brain. Without the proper identification and treatment,

further structural damage ensues. My emotional culmination came in 2010 with a suicide
attempt. Through temporary therapy and medication, I got back on track for a while. I came
to the realization that I had the power to rewire my brain, that I could control my emotions
and actions by controlling my thoughts. Mental health is not a weakness and I need to not be
ashamed of it. I now work with an organization called “The rebuild your mind mental health
challenge and initiative” as the veterans coordinator developed by Markell Taylor Sr. Our main
objective is to de-stigmatize the mental health and neuropsychological disorders that has (in

most cases, silently) plagued our country for too long. Every 12 minutes someone suffers in
silence, which results in them committing suicide or superimposing their disorders on to

others. I challenge all who read this to acknowledge your mental health and seek assistance
if needed. As a community let us all make a collaborative effort in de-stigmatizing this issue.

Awards: National Defense Service Medal, Global war on terrorism Expeditionary Medal,
Global war on Terrorism service Medal, Meritorious unit commendation, Sea service
deployment ribbon, Army achievement Medal, Humanitarian service Medal,
Non-commissioned officer professional deployment ribbon, Army service ribbon.

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