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Building Caring Families
Our mission is to transform how families support a better way for a healthier life.
Art Fuller is the founder of Building Caring Families and a dual degree Master of Public Health / Doctor of Health Sciences student at the University of Indianapolis. He is focused on transforming how families and students support positive mental health while lifting up the name of Yeshua.
He works with non-profits and churches to launch student leadership academies that provide the foundation for teens and young adults to combat the stigma of asking for help when dealing with mental and behavioral health. He also provides programming for communities, churches, and families. His dissertation is focused on raising awareness about strategies to improve equity in the behavioral health workforce, beginning on the local college and high school campus.
Building Caring Families customizes educational programs for students of all ages. Our approach is always Bible-based.
Visit our releases for infants to elementary.
Visit our releases introducing mental health to kids.
Visit our release about leadership.
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Student Leadership Academy
Flexible & Focused. 4 to 8 Weeks
Building Caring Families is focused on helping students, teens, and young adults become leaders in talking with their peers about the importance of mental and behavioral health. Research shows that all of our communities need help.
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In 2021, suicide became the second leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 14.
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More than 20 percent of teens have seriously considered suicide.
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Teens living in rural communities are twice as likely to consider suicide.
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African American youth ages 5 to 12 are twice as likely to die by suicide.
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African Americans ages 10 to 24 are the fastest rising group, increasing 36% since 2022. This is four times higher than the national increase at its peak.
We collaborate with your leadership team to identify 1 or 2 established events that already take place in your community.
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Once student leaders are identified, we collaborate with this group for 4 to 8 weeks prior to the event.
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During this time we develop leadership skills focused on making stronger connections using the fruits of the spirit.
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All participants improve their critical thinking, communication, and leadership planning skills.
Student leaders implement a special community outreach that raises awareness about mental health and invites peers to learn more about how they can make a difference talking to others about the importance of mental health.
Students develop a call to action that includes all of the following:
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Mini Student-Led Project
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Mobilization of Friends
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Lifting Up Christ-Like Principles
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Share Lessons Learned
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Repeat Again
Once completed, Art works with communities, funding agencies, and foundations to maintain ongoing funding in support of reducing the stigma associated with mental health, especially in support of teens, college students, and young professionals (ages 13 to 22).
Nationally, twenty percent of teens have seriously considered suicide and the rising rate of suicide among African Americans teens in higher than any social demographic group.
More About Art Fuller
Set Free by Art Fuller
J Ellington Publishing LLC
I am so grateful how the Lord has set me free.
He has lifted the heaviness of my unfaithfulness.
He has solved the mystery of my envy.
He has brightened the sorrow of my deepest fears.
They no longer are bound chains.
They no longer cause me to regret the years.
My joy now has lasting peace.
My praise has a better phase.
I allowed Yeshua to find me.
I confessed the sins that bind me.
No longer am I a selfish clown.
No longer do I care how my friends may sound.
My life is filled with purpose.
My action overflow with faith.
It's because of God’s grace.
I can now fully embrace my highest faith.
I can share God’s power with every small step.
He's elevated my courage.
He's supercharged my forgiveness.
Saved by Grace is such a wonderful place.
I am now able to fully embrace.
I am so grateful how the Lord has set me free.
I am set free.
Discover more of Art's releases.
Art's purpose is to show how God is love. He uses the Bible as a foundation for activating the fruits of the spirit to influence positive change within all types of communities (love, joy, peace, patience, faithfulness, forgiveness, kindness, goodness, self-control). He also shares scientific research on how non-pharmaceutical-based interventions focused on daily diet, having a safe space to talk with friends, exercise, engaging with the outdoors, and active living have exceptionally positive mental and behavioral health benefits.
Art comes from a family committed to service and has traced his family's lineage back to the 1820s. His family includes multiple Christian pastors, educators, athletic coaches, school principals, and military veterans residing in Montgomery and Hayneville, Alabama. He is still connected to the family church his family helped sustain, originally founded in 1819. Both of his parents are alumni of Alabama A & M University majoring in Chemistry and Mathematics.
Art has 25 years of experience in education serving culturally diverse students, students with disabilities, and families who are English language learners. He spent 7 years as a legislative liaison in support of pre-K through higher education and has over 14 years of experience as a non-profit executive and school leader.
Art earned a BA in Neuroscience and Behavior from Wesleyan University (CT) and a Masters of Education in Middle School Mathematics from Lesley University (MA). He is completing a dual degree Master of Public Health / Doctor of Health Sciences at the University of Indianapolis (IN) focused on health equity.
Art is a 2021 Hamilton Award Winner in recognition of outstanding contributions to the cause of behavioral health and service to those with disabilities. He was also selected as the keynote speaker for the 2023 Hamilton Awards recognizing mental health community leaders in central and west Indiana. He is currently a healthcare executive who oversees several multi-year grants awarded by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction totaling over $10 million. He is the lead executive within his organization for overseeing the transformation of a new model and infrastructure for the delivery of behavioral health. Art has also been selected as a guest panelist by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing to speak on workforce innovations, health integration, and access to 24/7/365 crisis services.
