My Approach
True transformation requires a rich and honest dialogue about readiness, challenges, and opportunities for growth. This heart-based work includes the ability to face conflict with clarity and a mind oriented toward solutions.
Through a deeper understanding of what success encompasses, we can explore the internal and external barriers that often shape decisions. Hearing from the different voices of those who will be most impacted by the work and integrating their experience in the process is essential. Feedback and conversation are key, and moving from vision to application is just the beginning.
Together, we’ll discover:
What does success mean to you?
Who will be most impacted by your work, and how do we engage them?
What approaches can we explore to relieve existing barriers?
Allow me to help you align your organization to achieve new opportunities.
“Just like people, systems can get better, stronger, healthier, and smarter. This is only effective if those most impacted by the systems are included as part of their redesign, delivery, and transformation.”
Kelechi Ubozoh, co-editor of We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health
Services
- Training and Technical Assistance
- Community Engagement and Planning
- Conference Keynotes and Speaking Engagements
- Meeting and Retreat Facilitation
- Suicide Prevention Workshops
- Healing-Centered Facilitation and Implementation Support
"Ms. Ubozoh was able to produce a clear schedule, timeframe for the project, incorporate all the professional hands involved in the project and she executed each section before our agreed upon deadline while continuously checking in to make sure we were on the same page. I most appreciated her intentional desire to understand the project from the client's perspective - she had to care about it as much as the client. Equally important from a Director's perspective, I value time and efficiency. Ms. Ubozoh's attention to detail mitigated having multiple drafts, her communication style and response time was professional and prompt."
Annie Kim, Managing Director of Safe Space
"With honesty, expertise, and a powerful approach to facilitating the subject of mental health and overall care for Black and other marginalized communities, Kelechi Ubozoh is a gift to the souls of those who benefit from an experience with her. Kelechi speaks to the heart of the matter and the heart of the individual as a teacher, a caregiver, an ally, and a Sister. California Black Women's Health Project serves better because of what she brings to our Sister Circles. As a leader and one who seeks to uplift others, I am personally better as a result of Kelechi's truthful and caring voice on mental health and wellness for Black women."
Sonya Young Aadam, CEO, California Black Women's Health Project
"Kelechi is a force of nature. She blends lived expertise, justice, and healing to bring change that unites people across identities to practically address mental health and suicide concerns in their communities."
Jess Stohlmann-Rainey, Director of Program Development at Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners
"We need more culturally relatable and congruent voices like Kelechi to help us develop a mental health system that meets the needs of our communities. Kelechi inspired our collaborative to define their own narrative and develop their communities' voice through writing for our Drawing Out Stigma program."
Iliana Soto Welty, Executive Director of MECCA
"Kelechi Ubozoh delivered an impactful keynote address to the 46 participants in our virtual workshop on April 24, 2020. We learned about the importance of peers supporting mental health management from Ubozoh's depth of experience working with communities managing mental health needs. Participants in our workshop came away from her keynote with these clear challenge areas to tackle for future digital mental health support resources."
Eleanor Burgess, Organizing Committee for the "Technology Ecosystems: Rethinking Mental Health Resources" workshop at the 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, MsC Northwestern University
"Kelechi adeptly combines a deep understanding of mental health with strong skills in project management, community engagement, and communications in order to achieve meaningful change."
Kiran Savage-Sangwan, Executive Director of California Pan Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN)
"Kelechi has a rich and varied set of life and professional experiences to draw upon and openly shares in her presentations. While facilitation group meetings both large and small, she helps participants to feel that the information being shared is credible thus building a sense of trust. With her skills, sensitivities and ability to carefully attune to the various group dynamics, it becomes very clear, at the outset, that everyone’s voice in the room is equal and no one is made to feel that they are 'wrong.' She is able to successfully facilitate the group’s emotions and with her positive approach and skillful facilitation she keeps groups energized and transformed from individuals to well-trained participants."
Keris Jän Myrick, M.B.A., M.S., Ph.D.c Industrial-Organizational Psychology Professional and Peer Services
"We were so happy with the warmth, knowledge, and positive messaging Kelechi openly and confidently provided for our Mental Health assembly. Students resonated with her words and were actively engaged in a topic that is sometimes difficult to embrace. Her openness and vulnerability served as a healthy example for what recovery can look like. We'd love to have her back anytime!"
Jake and Tracy, School Counselors at Menlo School
"Kelechi is the brave voice our communities have been craving for to tell it like it is and inspire us to share our story. Kelechi is the voice we have been waiting for - real, raw and forward thinking."
Iliana Soto Welty, Executive Director of MECCA
Kelechi has had the pleasure of working with numerous public and nonprofit agencies. Below are examples of agencies she has worked with during her career:
- Alpine Behavioral Health
- California Association of Mental Health Peer Run Organizations
- California’s Black Women’s Health Project
- California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions
- California Pan Ethnic Health Network
- City of Berkeley Mental Health Division
- City of San Jose Department of Parks, Recreation, & Neighborhood Services
- Color of Change
- Contra Costa County Behavioral Health Services
- Family Education Resource Center
- Kern County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services
- Kings County Behavioral Health
- Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
- Marin County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services
- Lyra
- Menlo School
- Mental Health Association of San Francisco
- Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network
- Modoc County Behavioral Health
- Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies
- Oakland Human Services
- Orange County Health Care Agency
- Riverside University Health System Behavioral Health
- Sacred Heart Preparatory
- Safe Space
- San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness
- Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Department
- Santa Clara County Housing Authority
- San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services
- Sierra Health Foundation
- The Social Changery
- Sonoma County Department of Behavioral Health Services
- Stanford Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
- Tehama County Health Services Agency Behavioral Health
- Tri-City Mental Health
- Yolo Health and Human Services Agency
If you are interested in consulting or speaking with Kelechi Ubozoh, please click the contact button for more information.