Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC)

CEO & Director, Integrative Therapist, MHFA England Associate & trainer. Independent Stop & Search Youth TRAINER. All views expressed are my own. 🙌🏽

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

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[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

Aaron Tucker had been out of prison for seven days. He had less than $2 in his pocket and one shot at turning his life around, a job interview that morning. Then he saw a car flip over and catch fire from his bus window.

He asked the bus driver if he was going to help. "No, but if you get out I'm going to leave," the driver replied. Tucker got out anyway.

He sprinted toward the upside-down, smoke-filled car and found the 61-year-old driver covered in blood.

He unbuckled the man's seatbelt and dragged him clear as the car started to catch fire.

He pulled off his own dress shirt and used it to stop the man's head wound from bleeding, telling him: "You're going to be all right. Your family wants to see you. Keep your eyes open."

The bus left. Tucker missed his interview.

When the story got out, strangers set up a GoFundMe that raised over $50,000 in three days. He also received multiple job offers in construction.

"I feel like a job can come and go, but a life is a one-time thing," Tucker said. "The job just wasn't in my mind at that time."

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

”If you don’t use your voice, people will speak for you, people will make decisions for you and people will judge you based on your silence.”

- this was the life advice Leymah Gbowee got from her most memorable teacher.

Peace activist Gbowee had a university teacher that inspired and encouraged her to use her voice, speak up for herself and find her self-confidence. Gbowee was a hard working student but she never spoke up in class. Her teacher gave her an F on a paper, leading Gbowee to ask if he had even read it. A week later he returned the paper again - but this time with an A. The lesson her teacher wanted to teach her was to speak up for herself.

Gbowee herself has explained it as the "moment I found my voice" and says that this high school teacher shaped her into the peace activist she is today.

Learn more about Gbowee's life story: https://t.co/k5jPgmTsoe

[Jon Machota @jonmachota]

Cowboys DT Solomon Thomas on Marshawn Kneeland: “Marshawn was in the building, smiling every day. He was happy. He was listening to music. He was dancing all the time. But that’s the thing with mental health and suicide, you just never know what someone’s going through.

“Someone could be smiling, someone could be dancing, laughing, having a great time, expressing all this joy, but on the inside, they could really be fighting a battle that you never know about. You don’t know what the chemicals are telling them in their brain. You don’t know the trauma from their childhood. You don’t know everything they’ve been going through. And that’s why it’s so important to be kind.

“It’s so important to ask people how they’re doing. It’s so important to tell people the resources around them, that therapy is OK as a man. Therapy is OK as a woman. These are things that we need to go through because you never know what battle someone’s going through. It’s hard. It’s tragic. It’s such a young life that should be here. This is why mental health is so important.

“So many people struggle with it around the world, and in our country, on football teams, in classrooms. If you look at the mental health statistics, they start at the age of nine. Kids are dying by 9 to suicide. It’s something our whole nation needs to take seriously. Get off social media, believing everything is just highlights. That’s not life. Life is about the adversity, the hard times, the sad times, the depression, the sadness, the anxiety. These are all feelings of human experience, so we just have to let people feel human and be human.”

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@Keir_Starmer there are some people to release. Our jystice system should be about rehabilitation. Not debilitating ⚖️🧐
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[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@Birmingham_Mail https://t.co/WZmGgT3NRV

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@tvlicensing @tvlicensingnews @BBCNews @BBC @GMB just been hung up on by a TV licence advisor explaining we want a reasonable adjustment for a client who has a Mental Health disability. Threatening to end her life because of @tvlicensing not acting to prevent distress. Help pls

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@piersmorgan can you help? @MagistratesBlog
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[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@tvlicensing @tvlicensingnews @BBCNews @BBC @GMB just been hung up on by a TV licence advisor explaining we want a reasonable adjustment for a client who has a Mental Health disability. Threatening to end her life because of @tvlicensing not acting to prevent distress. Help pls

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@tvlicensing @tvlicensingnews @BBCNews @BBC @GMB just been hung up on by a TV licence advisor explaining we want a reasonable adjustment for a client who has a Mental Health disability. Threatening to end her life because of @tvlicensing not acting to prevent distress. Help pls

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@tvlicensing @tvlicensingnews @BBCNews @BBC @GMB just been hung up on by a TV licence advisor explaining we want a reasonable adjustment for a client who has a Mental Health disability. Threatening to end her life because of @tvlicensing not acting to prevent distress. Help pls

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@Lowkey0nline Okay he might have got injured, but I'm just not understanding hands pinning down his face 🤷🏽‍♀️ not everyone is a Royalist, not everyone's life has stopped to mourn. #RESPECT #CHOICE2022

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

Buy your badge now! #weremember https://t.co/gvZot8FkFh
Support families impacted by the untimely loss of their loved ones 🙏🏽⚖️

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

Involved in the professionals walkabout in Lozells with The Parents & carers groups. So disappointing to see @Birminghamcwg22 is over & so was keeping ours streets clean for the visitors now they're gone @BhamCityCouncil I had to check if they were striking. Just outside a park🤷🏽‍♀️

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@Jliffe @JENGbA @ACTCIC Thanks for sharing your story, not everyone has the strength to take on the systems in place, when families are being torn apart. ⚖️🙏🏽

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@Jliffe @JENGbA Raising awareness of disproportionality is key to getting the balance right. If only more money was being pumped into prevention & building communities that have had diversionary resources taken away. @ACTCIC good discussion for your OCN Accredited Gangs & Youth Violence cohort

[Jan Cunliffe 🧡#JENGbA @Jliffe]

Not been a bad week so far. First the opening of the @JENGbA office in #Manchester & my first opinion piece. My blind son was jailed for being at the scene of a murder. Halt this tide of #jointenterprise convictions | Jan Cunliffe | #SDMNetwork #CiviAct https://t.co/hf26VKgE1O

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@WaseemZaffar We definiately need the issue talked about and recognizsed alot more openly, @MaternityEngage do a great job at highlighting the health inequalities faced by women in BAME/people of colour communities. Such poor health outcomes especially around Maternity. #RESPECT

[Waseem Zaffar MBE @WaseemZaffar]

This study is frightening. Coupled with the knowledge that poorer communities and BAME communities often do not access maternity services early enough, how are we going to address the challenge and impact of air pollution on new born babies?

https://t.co/LqcYRNLn7S

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

@WaseemZaffar Such an important issue as are the many incidents in Newtown & Lozells where young people have been injured or lost their lives. Our community needs more funding to provide adequate support for generations that will enable the change that is needed. Please connect @WaseemZaffar

[Michelle Kelly (AFCS CIC) @Michelle26kell1]

Out with my friend not sure if little one has fallen fro. A nest bit was struggling with something wrong with his wing. RSPC local is closed can anyone help and tell us what he needs to eat? Or who can help him?

[National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund @fund_memorial]

The Memorial Family Fund welcomes new sessional staff Nirad, Maia, Nehanda and Kwesi to support our ongoing work.
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