Voice Up The Bridge Builder for Better Health Internship 100% Remote

Little Rock, Arkansas (United States) VOICE UP PUBLISHING, INC. INTERNSHIP TRACK B THE BRIDGE BUILDER 100% Remote Academic Credit Available Spring Summer Fall 2026 You connect the dots. You open the doors. One conversation at a time, you build something bigger than yourself. For natural connectors who want to build movements not just programs. THIS IS FOR YOU Some people naturally see connections where others see separation. They walk into a space, listen carefully, and understand who needs to meet, what needs to happen, and how to move things forward. If that's you this is your role. Voice Up was not built through large-scale campaigns or top-down systems. It was built through one conversation at a time. The founder showed up consistently listening, connecting, and creating alignment between people, institutions, and ideas that were already present but not yet unified. Those conversations became relationships. Those relationships became partnerships. Those partnerships became a growing national and global network. This internship places you directly inside that network. Voice Up has established relationships across 257 verified higher education institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), where the behavioral health workforce gap is most urgent. Your role is to help expand and strengthen this network not through mass outreach alone, but through intentional, relationship-driven engagement. You will help ensure that the communities most impacted are not the last to benefit, but the first. You will also help coordinate ongoing conversations with international partners in Bangladesh and India organizations that have spent decades building community-centered approaches to healing. These are not transactional relationships. They are built on trust, mutual learning, and sustained dialogue. The Internship/Share Your Talents program has already shown that when people are given a structured path into behavioral health work, they take it at 4.4 times the rate of those without access. Your role is to help build more of those pathways. This is not theoretical work. You are helping build the infrastructure that allows this model to scale one conversation, one relationship, one partnership at a time. WHAT YOU'LL DO Build Meaningful Institutional Relationships Engage with universities, especially HBCUs and MSIs, to connect students and faculty to Voice Up's research and internship ecosystem. Focus on depth of relationship, not just volume of outreach. Coordinate Global Conversations Support recurring sessions with international partners by preparing materials, capturing insights, and helping translate global learning into local application. These conversations shape how the model evolves. Lead Purpose-Driven Outreach Design and execute outreach efforts that bring new participants into Voice Up programs with intentional focus on underserved and underrepresented communities. Strengthen the Infrastructure Document partnerships, track engagement, and maintain clear records that support long-term sustainability, grant applications, and institutional trust. WHO THIS IS FOR This internship is especially valuable for those in: Public Health Global Health Social Work Nonprofit Leadership Health Administration Community Development However, all disciplines are welcome. If you are someone who naturally connects people, sees opportunities for alignment, and believes relationships are the foundation of meaningful change you belong here. STRUCTURE & COMMITMENT Time Commitment: 6 8 hours per week Format: Fully remote and flexible Academic Credit: Available through most institutions Stipends: Available for Voice Up University participants This structure allows you to contribute to real, high-impact work while maintaining flexibility. THREE WAYS TO JOIN There is no single entry point only a shared commitment to building something meaningful. Academic Credit Coordinate with your university to receive internship credit. Voice Up provides supervision, documentation, and required evaluations. Typically 1 3 credits. Volunteer Track Open access with no financial or institutional barriers. Contribute to real work, build a portfolio, and receive formal documentation of your impact. Voice Up University A deeper, more structured experience with global peer cohorts, guided learning, and priority access to stipend opportunities. WHY THIS MATTERS Most systems are built from the top down. Voice Up was built from the ground up through conversations that revealed what was already working within communities. The founder recognized that people were already helping others every day but those contributions were not being seen, named, or connected into a broader system. The solution was not to replace what existed, but to connect it. This is where you come in. As a Bridge Builder, you are not just coordinating outreach you are helping weave together a network of people and institutions that can collectively address one of the most urgent challenges in our time: expanding access to behavioral health support. Every email you send, every meeting you coordinate, every relationship you nurture contributes to something larger. One conversation becomes a connection. One connection becomes a partnership. One partnership becomes systemic change. APPLY To apply, email with: Your name Your school or background A statement of interest in Track B The Bridge Builder Two sentences on why this opportunity resonates with you Voice Up Publishing, Inc. voiceuplab.org 100% Remote All Disciplines Welcome Spring Summer Fall 2026 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 in Indianapolis, 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?"