Voice Up Founding LCSW Team 100% Remote Transform Our Health
Dear Licensed Clinical Social Workers,
RE: Founding LCSW Clinical Team. Help Transform Our Health.
Voice Up Publishing Inc. is writing to invite Licensed Clinical Social Workers to join the founding clinical team of BH Pathways , a new initiative with a specific and measurable mission: to double the number of Licensed Clinical Social Workers in the United States within five years.
This is a ground-floor opportunity. The person who accepts this role will not be stepping into a system that has already been built. They will be building it.
Voice Up Publishing Inc. is an Indiana Social Impact C Corporation founded to connect people to their purpose. Our work sits at the intersection of behavioral health workforce development, applied purpose science, and social impact publishing.
Our evidence base spans 2,941 deduplicated participants across 5,385 documented program activities, with institutional reach into 257 higher education institutions and a documented global footprint across 134 countries.
Our methodology is anchored in the Naming Gap a research-validated construct describing the institutional failure to recognize and translate students’ existing behavioral health competencies into visible career pathways. We do not believe the LCSW workforce shortage is primarily a recruitment problem. We believe it is a recognition problem. That distinction is what BH Pathways is built to address.
The Founding LCSW team is not a conventional role. It is a builder role. The team will help define what it means to pursue clinical social work through the Voice Up way what mentorship looks like when it is purpose-centered rather than hierarchical, how clinical identity forms through small repeated commitments rather than single high-stakes evaluations, and what it takes to sustain an emerging LCSW candidate through the long middle of graduate training and pre-licensure supervision.
This work will draw directly on Voice Up’s five foundational principles: Collaboration (All are Welcome), Humility (We all have much to learn), Precision (All the Details Matter), Patience (We All Need Forgiveness), and Empathy (We Must Understand Your Why).
Because this role is being created at the founding stage of a startup initiative, we want to be direct about what that means. In Years 1 and 2, compensation will be structured as a nominal stipend combined with equity participation in Voice Up Publishing Inc. as a Social Impact C Corporation.
During this time the Founding Team members will be written into multiple funding and grant proposals that are already ongoing with institutions through multi year partnerships already secured at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels of higher education.
The commitment level is part-time and flexible, designed to fit alongside existing clinical or employment obligations.
In Year 3, as BH Pathways reaches operational maturity and funding milestones are achieved, this role is designed to convert to a full-time, salaried position with benefits. The founding team members who hold this position will have shaped that full-time role from the ground up and will carry first right of consideration for expanded clinical leadership as the initiative grows.
We are looking for LCSWs who hold an active license in good standing and who brings a demonstrated commitment to behavioral health workforce equity, community-based practice, or clinical mentorship. Experience in graduate field instruction, clinical supervision, or LCSW candidate development is strongly preferred.
More than credentials, however, we are looking for someone who approaches this work with the patience to operate in a startup environment, the humility to build rather than arrive, and the collaborative orientation that founding-stage work demands. The Voice Up way is not a framework to adopt. It is a way of being in relationship with the people you are trying to help and the Founding LCSW must embody it before they can extend it.
Voice Up does not use a formal application process for founding team roles. We begin with a conversation. If this opportunity resonates with you, we invite you to reach out directly to the Founder and President/CEO at .
Please introduce yourself, share what drew you to this work, and tell us in plain language how your clinical experience and professional orientation connect to the BH Pathways mission.
Candidates who are selected will be invited into a 20-minute introductory meeting with the founder, consistent with Voice Up’s founding meeting requirement, in which both parties can determine whether the fit is genuine.
We are not looking for someone who is ready. We are looking for someone who is willing. Willing to enter honestly, build carefully, and stay long enough to see what this becomes. If that is you, we would be glad to hear from you.
Whether he is right is a question the next several years will begin to answer. What is not in question is the problem he is trying to address. The United States faces a behavioral-health crisis of a kind that previous generations did not encounter at this scale. Rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide have climbed steadily for two decades. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated trends that were already alarming. The workforce trained to respond to these trends is inadequate in size, uneven in distribution, and, in many communities, culturally and linguistically misaligned with the people it is meant to serve.
The Structural Failure
The standard explanation for the workforce shortage focuses on training capacity: not enough slots in graduate programs, not enough supervisors for field placements, not enough funding for stipends and loan forgiveness. These are real constraints. But Fuller’s research points to a prior failure, one that happens before the application is filed and before the program is chosen.