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)

5 hours/week

100% remote

Equity: 2.0% – 4.0%

Stipend: $250 – $1,000/month (variable & grant-dependent)

Year 2: Scale Initiation (25% FTE)

Approx. 10 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.

The Institutional Challenge

Institutions across higher education face converging pressures:

Employers are demanding demonstrated skills and applied experience, not credentials alone.

Students are seeking learning that is meaningful, flexible, and connected to real outcomes.

AI and automation are reshaping how knowledge work is performed, raising questions about how learning is assessed and validated.

Public accountability increasingly requires evidence of economic, workforce, and community impact.

Traditional course models—while essential—are often limited in their ability to verify that students can apply learning in complex, real-world contexts.

The Voice Up Visiting Scholar Solution

The Voice Up Visiting Scholar Program addresses these challenges by offering institutions a ready-to-deploy instructional model built around four core innovations: