Voice Up LCSW Accelerator 100% Remote
Help Double the Behavioral Health Workforce in 5 Years
Join the Voice Up LCSW Accelerator
The United States is facing an unprecedented behavioral health workforce shortage. Communities across the country are experiencing rising demand for mental and behavioral health services, yet the number of licensed clinical providers entering the workforce each year is not keeping pace with the need.
Thousands of talented social workers graduate every year ready to serve their communities, but many struggle to successfully pass the licensure exam required to become fully licensed clinicians. This gap has profound implications for access to care, community wellbeing, and the future of the profession.
Over the next five years, Voice Up has a bold mission: to help double the number of licensed clinical providers entering the behavioral health workforce.
To accomplish this, we are launching a first-of-its-kind Licensed Clinical Social Worker Accelerator, bringing together experienced clinicians who are ready to help lead innovative solutions to strengthen the profession.
About the Founder
The Voice Up Licensed Clinical Social Worker Accelerator is driven by the vision of the Founder, an executive leader whose career has been dedicated to transforming mental health and education systems.
The initiative was birthed from a single, profound question:
How can I help others understand what I know to be true about careers in mental and behavioral health?
Recognizing the exceptional lack of understanding among young adults regarding mental health pathways, the Founder designed Voice Up as a light-touch, human-centered community designed to connect people to purpose.
The Voice Up Success Story
Voice Up creates stable, judgment-free spaces that scale organically to help individuals navigate their career pathways.
The success of this model is demonstrated by its remarkable, proven real-world impact:
• To date, over 3,600 students spanning 177 institutions across more than 40 countries have interacted with Voice Up.
• Participants come from a wide range of educational settings, spanning from community colleges to elite medical schools and Tier 1 research universities.
• Over 27 institutions have awarded verified academic credit for student participation.
• Students have achieved exceptional outcomes, including securing signed partnerships and funding allocations such as federal Title I dollars and local public tax dollars to support their original community-facing initiatives.
• The model has proven highly effective at reaching traditionally underserved communities, including:
individuals transitioning from the armed services
those facing homelessness
people managing diagnosed mental health conditions
The Opportunity for Clinical Leaders
The Licensed Clinical Social Worker Accelerator is designed for experienced clinicians who want to contribute to meaningful workforce innovation while expanding their own leadership and impact.
Participants do not need to leave their current roles; the accelerator is designed to complement existing professional work while creating opportunities for expanded impact and collaboration.
As an accelerator participant, you will collaborate with Voice Up to:
• Mentor social workers preparing for licensure through an 8-week cohort-based program
• Participate in workforce development initiatives
• Explore new social impact pathways within behavioral health
• Contribute to innovative programs strengthening the profession
Our goal is not simply to help people pass an exam; it is to develop confident, prepared, purpose-driven clinicians ready to serve their communities.
Logistics, Support, & Compensation
Format:
Remote / National Network
Time Commitment:
Flexible, requiring approximately 3 4 hours per week during program cycles.
This includes:
60 90 minutes weekly for cohort mentoring
1 2 hours weekly for preparation and collaboration
Infrastructure:
Voice Up provides the infrastructure needed to support you, including:
Program frameworks
Enrollment and participant management systems
Marketing support
Access to a national professional network
Compensation:
While the accelerator is mission-driven, participants who facilitate licensure success cohorts are compensated.
Facilitators typically earn $2,500 to $4,000 per cohort.
Join the Movement
The behavioral health workforce shortage is one of the defining challenges of our time.
Licensed Clinical Social Workers have an opportunity to help lead a new approach to strengthening the profession and expanding access to care.
If you believe in this mission and want to help build something transformational for the profession, we invite you to join us.
What had once seemed like isolated experiences started to form a coherent narrative.
The Naming Gap began to close.
As the community grew, so did its reach. What had started as small conversations evolved into a cohort-based program bringing together students, graduate scholars, and working professionals. The model was simple but powerful: create a stable, judgment-free environment where people could discover their purpose, build leadership skills, and translate lived experience into tangible initiatives.
The results were not theoretical.
Over time, more than 3,600 students representing 177 institutions across more than 40 countries interacted with the Voice Up community. Universities from community colleges to medical schools began recognizing student projects with academic credit. Partnerships formed that directed real public funding toward student-led initiatives. Projects ranged from mental health resources to policy advocacy to educational materials adopted by local agencies.
In one case, students helped advance national conversations around colorectal cancer awareness. In another, participants published books that were later used by family service organizations.