Mind Matters: Incarceration, Injustice, Inequality

Acadia Healthcare’s Children’s Behavioral Solutions (CBS) works with families free of charge to connect children and adolescents with personalized treatment for mental health and substance use disorders. As a complimentary resource for therapists, agencies, and social workers, Children’s Behavioral Solutions ensures that each child has the resources they need to achieve the best treatment outcome possible.

Since our humble beginnings, NOVA Behavioral Healthcare has been dedicated to building a future and hope for children, adolescents, and adults with concurrent diagnoses by providing individualized services in a highly structured and therapeutic treatment environment. NOVA Inc. was founded in 1985 to address a service need for difficult to place children with emotional, social and intellectual challenges. NOVA’s Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) in Kinston, North Carolina offer secure residential care for children with mental illness.

Legal Aid of North Carolina is a statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people in order to ensure equal access to justice and to remove legal barriers to economic opportunity.

Equality North Carolina is the oldest statewide organization in the country dedicated to securing rights and protections for the LGBTQ community. We're invested in ensuring that every North Carolinian can see themselves in this movement and helping to create a safer, more equitable world for all marginalized folds. Together we can build a better North Carolina.

Mental Health Transformation Alliance (MHTA) was developed in 2011 as a federally certified national, family run organization by a group of families with children and youth with mental health needs in NE TN; an area generally weak in family and youth involvement in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of services to high risk and needy populations.

Stephanie Fu earned a Master’s of Science in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 2016. Previously a high school English teacher before being inspired by students to go back to school for mental health counseling and therapy, Stephanie is bilingual in English and Spanish and offers therapeutic services in both languages. A Licensed Professional Counselor (LCMHC #12503), Stephanie has had experience in community mental health working with kids and adolescents ages 5-18 as well as families and adults working through life stress, relationship issues, and trauma. She has worked with clients in individual therapy, group therapy, and family therapy. Stephanie utilizes a Rogerian approach to therapy which is based on empathy and compassion and listening to each client’s story, experience, and individual therapeutic goals. She also incorporates attachment theory, working with clients processing past and present relationships in one’s life in order to enrich and improve current relationships and bonds. In addition to using experiential therapy such as art and meditation, Stephanie incorporates several evidence-based practices such as cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma-focused therapy, EMDR, eco-systemic family therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy.