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.

Fuller grew up shaped by people who did things without being told they were remarkable. He talks about his family's history on Fuller Road in Montgomery, Alabama with the quiet authority of someone who has spent a long time thinking about what roots mean. His Uncle Charlie, he told me, walked barefoot to school until he was fifteen — and became a master craftsman whose work people drove distances to see. His Aunt Liz played gospel music for decades of ministry, never asking whether her gift was recognized by the right institutions. His father, Arthur Lee Fuller, Sr., taught him work ethic through mornings that started before the sun came up, on land that asked everything of you and gave back in its own time.

"They didn't wait for someone to give them permission," Fuller said. "They did what they were called to do and they did it with everything they had. That is what I watched. That is the model."

He studied jazz performance at Wesleyan University — an unconventional path for someone who would eventually manage a $53 million behavioral health budget and supervise more than six hundred employees. But music taught him something about listening that data analysis never could. He learned to hear what wasn't being said. He learned to follow the spaces between the notes. When he pivoted into education and eventually healthcare, he brought that capacity with him.

THE NEW YORKER

Published March 2026 — Annals of Purpose

PART TWO OF THREE

The Call That Changed Everything

A cold email. A thirty-five-minute Zoom. A professor who had spent his career asking the same question from the other side of it. And the moment two different people realized they had been building toward each other all along.

By A Staff Writer

On the morning of February 19, 2026, Art Fuller sat down and wrote an email to a professor he had never met at a university he had never visited, about a problem he had been thinking about for thirty years.

The email was short. It introduced Voice Up as "a purpose-driven public health start-up grounded in IRB-approved dissertation research." It linked to a research introduction page. It said, in essence: we are looking for partners. If you are interested or know someone who might be, please get in touch.

Fuller sent versions of this email to dozens of researchers that month. Most of them did not respond. The ones who did responded slowly, cautiously, with the polite skepticism that academics reserve for organizations they have not heard of. Jacque-Corey Cormier, a clinical associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences at Georgia State University's School of Public Health, responded five days later with a question: would Fuller be available to meet on Thursday?