Voice Up Founding Director LCSW Health Partnerships 100% Remote

Founding Director of Behavioral Health Partnerships & Workforce Innovation (LCSW)

Voice Up – Purpose Driven Decisions

Remote Founding Equity Role After-Hours Part-Time Full-Time

WHERE THIS WORK BEGINS

This work did not begin in a classroom, clinic, or grant proposal.

It began with a grandmother—Mary Douglass—

who created space for something rare:

uninterrupted conversation

deep listening

reflection without judgment

and a quiet expectation that your life had meaning

Years later, those conversations—recorded, revisited, and studied—revealed something profound:

The most powerful form of intervention is not instruction.

It is structured conversation that helps a person recognize who they already are.

That became the Douglass Fuller Method.

And over time, that method became Voice Up.

THE FOUNDER’S PATH

This system was built in real-world conditions—not theory.

The Founder has led across:

Federal behavioral health grants (SAMHSA, U.S. Department of Education)

Multi-million dollar program implementation

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) transformation

Statewide Medicaid-aligned systems and policy

Workforce development across education and behavioral health

This includes:

Principal Investigator roles on multiple federal grants

Oversight of $7M+ in active grants and $50M+ in system operations

Leadership within large-scale community mental health systems

National recognition in behavioral health transformation

Why This Matters

This model is being built by someone who has already operated inside—and successfully led—the systems it is now redesigning.

THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Voice Up is grounded in an IRB-approved, multi-state doctoral study.

Key Finding: The Naming Gap

People often already possess the lived experience and capacity to enter behavioral health—

but lack the language to recognize it.

Mechanism: Definitional Clarity Cascade

When individuals receive:

clear definitions

visible roles

pathway language

They demonstrate:

immediate awareness expansion

increased motivation

rapid identity alignment

Core Insight

The barrier is not ability.

It is recognition + pathway clarity.

WHAT VOICE UP DOES

Voice Up turns that insight into a system.

It helps individuals:

Reflect on lived experience

Recognize existing strengths

Connect to purpose

Translate into real-world pathways

What consistently happens:

Participants say:

“I’ve never thought about it like that.”

Then:

engagement increases

planning begins

action follows

️ THE SYSTEM YOU ARE HELPING BUILD

1. Purpose-Centered Engagement

Rooted in the method of Mary Douglass

Focused on youth & transition-age populations

2. Workforce Activation Engine

Identifies and activates informal helpers

Connects to:

CHW roles

social work pathways

behavioral health careers

3. Medicaid-Aligned Delivery

CHW-based model

Billable services include:

care coordination

engagement

group facilitation

4. LCSW-Led Oversight (Your Role)

Non-clinical leadership

Workforce system design

Ethical alignment

5. Data + Research Infrastructure

Thousands of participant data points

Longitudinal tracking

Academic integration

CURRENT SCALE

2,900+ participants

1,300+ qualitative datasets

5,000+ program activities

20+ institutional implementations

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

The system gap:

Workforce shortages

Late-stage clinical intervention

Lack of early engagement

The opportunity:

People already have the capacity to help—

but are not connected to pathways.

YOUR ROLE

You are not stepping into a defined system.

You are helping build one.

Core Responsibilities

Lead the LCSW Accelerator

Develop pathways from purpose profession

Build National LCSW Network

Mentorship + supervision ecosystem

Expand Institutional Partnerships

MSW, MPH, nonprofit integration

️ Align with Medicaid Systems

Support scalable implementation

Maintain Model Integrity

Ensure alignment with:

research

ethics

outcomes

Support Growth

Grant strategy + system expansion

ROLE DISTINCTION

Not:

therapy

traditional supervision

Yes:

system-building

workforce design

partnership leadership

COMPENSATION STRUCTURE

Year 1: Founding Phase (After-Hours)

2 to 4 hours/week

100% remote

Equity: 2.0%

Stipend: $150 – $500/month (variable & grant-dependent)

Year 2: Scale Initiation (15% FTE)

Approx. 5 to 8 hours/week equivalent

Increased grant-funded compensation

Formalized leadership role

Continued equity participation

Year 3: Full Implementation (100% FTE)

Full-time leadership role

Market-rate salary aligned with senior LCSW leadership positions

Equity retained

Performance-based incentives tied to system growth

IDEAL CANDIDATE

An LCSW who:

Believes conversation is intervention

Sees workforce as prevention

Understands systems—not just services

Is willing to build something new

Wants to scale impact nationally

WHAT YOU ARE JOINING

This is not just a model.

It is a continuation of something that started long before it had a name:

A grandmother creating space

A family passing down dignity

A realization that conversation can unlock purpose

A system now designed to scale that reality

FINAL POSITIONING

In One Sentence

This is a founding leadership role for an LCSW to help scale a nationally relevant, research-backed behavioral health workforce model—rooted in the lived methodology of Mary Douglass, informed by doctoral research on the Naming Gap, and built by proven leadership with real-world system impact.

PART ONE OF THREE

The Name of What You Do

A researcher walks out into the rain, asks a question nobody had thought to ask, and discovers something that upends thirty years of thinking about who the healers are.

By A Staff Writer

On a rainy afternoon Art Fuller went for a walk. He did not go looking for an answer. He went looking for the right people.

He had been doing the math in his head for years — the way you do when a problem won't leave you alone. Fuller, who was then completing a doctoral dissertation in health sciences while simultaneously running one of Indiana's eight state-designated behavioral health demonstration clinics, had spent three decades watching the same scene repeat itself in different rooms. A young person, usually from a community that formal systems had underserved for generations, sitting across from a counselor or a case manager who looked nothing like them and knew nothing about the world they came from. A workforce built on credentials that those communities had never been given access to. A crisis described, year after year, as a supply problem — not enough therapists, not enough social workers, not enough people willing to do the work.

Fuller had a different theory. He thought the problem wasn't supply. He thought it was naming.

"There are people in every community," he told me recently, speaking from his office in Indianapolis, "who are already doing this work every single day. Holding their cousin together through a breakdown. Sitting up with a neighbor through a crisis. Walking somebody back from the edge without ever having a title for it. The question I kept asking myself was: what would happen if someone just told them what they were doing?"

The walk he took that rainy afternoon — he describes it as a prayer walk, the kind he takes when a question has gotten too large for a desk — was, in retrospect, the founding moment of Voice Up Publishing, Inc. He came home and sent a few emails. Within months, he had a research design, an IRB protocol, and a question so simple it was almost embarrassing: had anyone ever just asked?

I.

The study that would eventually become the foundation of everything Fuller built next began with a single survey prompt distributed to college students across ten states. The phrasing was deliberate. He did not ask about mental health careers. He did not ask about behavioral health training. He asked, in essence: have you ever helped somebody through something hard?

The results came back, and Fuller sat with them for a long time.

Ninety-one percent of respondents reported that yes, they had — regularly, in fact. Peer support. Crisis de-escalation. Emotional mediation. The quiet work of being the person in a family or a neighborhood or a dorm hallway who knew how to hold space when things got bad. Ninety-one percent.

The second number was the one that stopped him cold.