Raise Your Voice
Your concerns matter. Your voice deserves direction. Raise Your Voice helps community members understand who to contact, where to start, and what information may help them move forward.
More Than a Voice. A Movement for Truth, Education, and Action.
Raise Your Voice is Bridge & Beyond Inc.’s public advocacy and community education initiative, created to help people understand important issues, navigate complex systems, and move from concern to informed action.
We believe every person deserves access to accurate information, transparent government, accountable leadership, and the resources needed to advocate for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Our purpose is not to tell people what to think. Our purpose is to provide information, context, resources, and responsible direction so communities can think critically, engage respectfully, and raise their voices effectively.
Building a trusted multimedia platform for community education and advocacy.
Raise Your Voice is growing beyond written advocacy into a multimedia platform that will bring important conversations, developing stories, educational resources, and community voices to broader audiences.
Revenue generated through Raise Your Voice media, sponsorships, partnerships, programming, and related initiatives will remain within Bridge & Beyond Inc. and support its educational, charitable, advocacy, and community-building mission.
Our Commitment
Raise Your Voice is committed to presenting verified information whenever possible, clearly distinguishing confirmed facts from allegations or developing reports, correcting information when credible new evidence becomes available, respecting the dignity of individuals and families, and encouraging responsible civic engagement rather than harassment or misinformation.
Housing Before Handcuffs
Stop Indiana From Criminalizing Homelessness
No human being should be fined, jailed, or pushed deeper into poverty because they do not have a safe place to sleep.
Indiana’s Senate Enrolled Act 285 creates a new “Prohibition of Street Camping” law. Instead of creating housing, shelter, treatment, and stability, this law risks turning survival into a criminal offense.
No Bed. No Charge. Housing Before Handcuffs.
We are not asking leaders to ignore public safety. We are asking them to stop confusing poverty with crime. Real public safety includes shelter, housing, mental health care, addiction recovery, employment support, and human dignity.
We Are Calling For:
- No Bed. No Charge.
- No jail, fines, or criminal records for survival-related homelessness.
- Mandatory diversion to shelter, housing, treatment, and support services.
- State and local investment in emergency shelter, safe housing, mental health care, addiction recovery, and employment support.
- Public reporting on every warning, citation, arrest, diversion, and outcome connected to this law.
- Protection of personal property during any encampment response, including IDs, medication, documents, phones, blankets, and survival supplies.
Sources: Indiana SEA 285 | Indiana Class C Misdemeanor Penalty | Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25
Many people want change but do not know where to begin.
When people face concerns involving housing, employment, transportation, public services, education, consumer issues, or local government, it can be difficult to know which office, agency, department, or organization is responsible.
We Listen
Community members may submit important concerns, questions, or letters to Raise Your Voice for review and resource direction.
We Research
We review the concern and look for the appropriate agency, department, public office, organization, or resource that may be able to help.
We Respond
We provide information to help the sender better understand possible next steps, who to contact, and how to raise the concern effectively.
We Bring Light
When appropriate, community concerns may be used to educate the public through Raise Your Voice multimedia programming, with privacy and consent respected.
Submit. Review. Research. Respond.
Raise Your Voice is designed to help people become better informed, better prepared, and better connected to the right resources.
Step 1: Submit Your Concern
Use the Submit a Concern form. Include your city, state, topic, and a clear summary of what happened or what question you need answered.
Step 2: We Identify the Issue
We look at the concern to understand whether it may involve housing, employment, transportation, public services, education, consumer issues, or another community matter.
Step 3: We Find Direction
We help identify the agency, office, public official, organization, or resource that may be responsible for addressing the concern.
Step 4: You Receive Information
We respond with information that may help you raise your concern in a more organized, informed, and effective way.
Community concerns deserve clear direction.
Raise Your Voice may help identify contacts, agencies, public offices, organizations, or resources connected to the following areas.
Housing
Tenant concerns, housing instability, housing resources, code concerns, shelter access, and housing-related public services.
Employment
Workplace concerns, wage questions, discrimination concerns, unsafe work environments, and employment-related resources.
Transportation
Transit access, mobility concerns, ADA transportation, medical transportation, road safety, and workforce transportation barriers.
Public Services
Concerns involving local government services, public agencies, utility access, records, processes, or community service gaps.
Education
School concerns, adult education, student support, parent questions, access issues, and education-related public resources.
Community Safety
Neighborhood concerns, emergency preparedness, public safety questions, and who to contact for non-emergency concerns.
Consumer Concerns
Business complaints, unfair practices, service issues, reporting options, and consumer protection resources.
Civil & Human Rights
Concerns involving dignity, access, discrimination, public accountability, equal treatment, and basic rights education.
Grounded in dignity, access, and accountability.
Raise Your Voice is supported by human rights education and a commitment to helping people better understand where to turn when their concerns need attention.
Chamorra Johnson has completed Human Rights Education Training and is recognized as a Certified Human Rights Consultant through the US Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights.
Certified Human Rights Consultant
Human rights education strengthens our ability to help people understand dignity, access, accountability, and community responsibility.
Raise Your Voice Multimedia Programming
Raise Your Voice is developing educational programming for YouTube, podcast platforms, interviews, community conversations, documentary projects, and future broadcast opportunities.
Community Concerns
We will bring light to real concerns affecting communities while respecting privacy, dignity, accuracy, and consent.
Know Who to Contact
Episodes will help explain which public office, agency, department, elected official, or organization may be responsible for different concerns.
Resource Direction
We will share public information, resource direction, and practical steps people can take to raise concerns respectfully and effectively.
Tell us what is happening.
Use this form to submit an important community concern. Please include your city, state, topic, what happened, and what kind of direction you are seeking.
Need help understanding where to start?
Use this form for general questions about agencies, resources, public offices, complaint processes, or how to raise a concern effectively.
Reach the Raise Your Voice team.
For partnerships, sponsorship inquiries, resource suggestions, media inquiries, volunteer interest, guest recommendations, or general communication, use the form below.
Direct email: [email protected]
Important Notice
Raise Your Voice is an educational, public advocacy, media, and resource-navigation initiative. It does not provide legal representation, emergency response, medical advice, or guaranteed outcomes.
If you are experiencing an emergency, call 911 or contact the appropriate emergency service immediately.
For general community resources such as food assistance, housing support, healthcare, transportation, financial assistance, and other local services, you may also search FindHelp.org by ZIP code to locate available programs near you.
If your concern involves a legal deadline, court matter, eviction notice, criminal case, or urgent rights issue, contact a licensed attorney or appropriate legal aid organization as soon as possible.
Please do not send Social Security numbers, full medical records, financial account numbers, passwords, or other highly sensitive personal information by email or through public submissions.
Your Voice Matters. Your Concerns Deserve Direction.
Raise Your Voice exists to help people become informed, organized, empowered, and connected to the right public offices, agencies, organizations, resources, and opportunities for meaningful action.