About Us

To download our History and Mission Statements, click here.
To read the impetus of why Kellin launched ("The Kellin story"), click here.
Mission:
To build resilient children, families, and adults through behavioral health services, victim advocacy, and community outreach.
 
How we meet our mission:
We provide personalized, evidence-based, and comprehensive community-based programming for people across the lifespan in four core areas:
  • Victim Advocacy Services and Patient Navigation (Case Management)
  • Clinical Assessment, Treatment (Therapeutic Counseling), and Peer Support
  • Youth Leadership and Empowerment Programming
  • Community Mobilization and Outreach (systems-level evolution and change)

Why we do this:
  • Because behavioral health is strongly connected to adversity and trauma
  • Because everyone deserves to live in a home and in a community that is safe and free of violence.
  • Because individuals, families, and communities are resilient and can thrive despite adversity
  • Because community organizations and systems play a key role in addressing adversity and building resiliency

Guiding Principles

At the Kellin Foundation, we believe that services and programming should be principle-driven.  As a Board, we have spent much time thinking about what principles are important to us so that we could develop our services and programming consistent with those principles.  

A core principle to us is authentic partnership.  We believe in co-creating  authentic partnerships that allow for people, professionals, and communities to work together to achieve their goals.  This is the backbone of our motto of ​making a difference together!

Within these authentic partnerships, our services and programs are grounded in these guiding principles:    

Safety:  Assisting with physical and emotional safety and wellness

Restoration:  Restoring hope and fostering the unique talents and gifts of each individual to be fully empowered

Healing:   Overcoming difficulties and developing peaceful solutions

Wellness:  Helping individuals create a sense of balance and stability in their lives by integrating physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being 

Fast Facts About the
​Kellin Foundation

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  • ​We serve approximately 10,000 people per year. 
  • We are the only nationally recognized community behavioral health center in the state of North Carolina with expertise and focus on trauma and resiliency as a partner with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, other than Duke University. ​
  • ​Creator of Resilient Guilford, an action-oriented, trauma resiliency network made up of over 30 community partners, businesses, and leaders to provide a coordinated behavioral health response since 2010.
  • ​Creator and leader of the Child Response Initiative (CRI), a trauma-informed secondary prevention program that addresses the needs of children exposed to violence and trauma and their families.  This evidence-informed model has been supported by research through Research Triangle International, recognized by the United States Department of Justice, and replicated in multiple cities across the United States.
  • ​Recognized by the Center for Excellence on Integrated Care as a top rated as having Dual Diagnosis Enhanced Capability to provide integrated mental health and substance use treatment services. 
  • ​Our passionate staff is nationally-sought after for training and technical assistance in the area of behavioral health and trauma, including several of our team members serving as consultants for the United States Department of Justice, the State of North Carolina AHEC training programs, National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI), the Office for Victims of Crime, Mental Health First Aid trainers, and many others.​