Building wellness · Empowering lives · Strengthening communities
The Wellness InstituteFOUNDATION
The Wellness Institute Foundation · Greater Cleveland

A stronger
community starts
with wellness.

Promoting mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness across all stages of life through compassionate support, education, prevention, and community connection.

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Room to grow.
Support to thrive.
Rooted in compassion. Growing together.
Ohio nonprofit · 501(c)(3)Wellness across the lifespanCommunity partnerships welcome
Our mission

Wellness across
all stages of life.

The Wellness Institute Foundation is dedicated to promoting mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness across all stages of life. Our mission is to provide early detection, prevention, maintenance, and recovery services through accessible, compassionate, and evidence-based programs. We strive to bridge the gap between healthcare, education, and social support systems by empowering individuals and families to achieve balance, resilience, and lifelong wellness.

Our vision

Communities where
wellness comes first.

To create communities where mental wellness is a daily priority — beginning with early childhood and continuing through adulthood — ensuring that every individual has access to the tools, resources, and support needed for a fulfilling and balanced life.

Our lifespan approach includes children, adolescents, young adults, adults, and older adults. We are developing collaborations with schools, families, and community organizations to support age-appropriate wellness education, prevention, supportive services, and connections to care.

CompassionIntegrityEquityCollaborationStability
Our mission in action

A broad vision.
Purposeful first steps.

Our charitable work brings together prevention, education, supportive services, and community partnerships. Programs will grow as resources and partnerships develop.

01
In development

Wellness Education
& Community Connection

Exploring workshops, wellness gatherings, health awareness, and resource connections for children, adolescents, and families, alongside adults and older adults. Planned collaborations include schools and community organizations.

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02
Partnerships developing

Supportive Services
& Wellness Partnerships

Building connections with schools, youth-serving nonprofits, and professionals in child and adolescent wellness, nutrition, movement, and whole-person support.

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03
Collaborations developing

Children, Adolescents
& Family Support

Exploring age-appropriate education, prevention, supportive services, and resource connections with schools, families, and community organizations.

Explore youth & school collaborations ↗

A separate initiative from our founder: The Wellness Institute Mental Health is a developing clinical practice through Kandy’s Beauty + Wellness Institute LLC. Explore planned clinical services ↗

Explore all programs and initial projects ↗

Meet our founder

Experience.
Purpose.
Compassion.

Keenya Steele, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC

Keenya Steele, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC

President & Founder

With more than 23 years in healthcare and experience as both a family and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, Keenya Steele, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC brings a whole-person perspective to the foundation’s mission.

Keenya’s Christian faith helped sustain her through her personal cancer journey and remains a cornerstone of her life. That experience inspires her commitment to compassionate support that honors each person’s beliefs, values, and sources of strength.

She is building a community of supporters to advance lifelong wellness through prevention, education, supportive services, and community connection.

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Help build what comes next

Your support can
help open doors.

Support the Foundation’s overall mission: mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness through compassion, education, connection, and opportunities for a more stable future.

Give financially

Give where it is needed most across wellness education, children and family initiatives, school and community collaborations, supportive services, events, and other charitable projects.

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Share goods or skills

Discuss needed items, professional services, volunteer opportunities, or community connections.

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The Wellness Institute Foundation · General Mission Fund

Give to the vision.
Help wellness grow.

Your gift supports current and future charitable programs and the planning, staffing, supplies, and operating needs that make them possible. The Foundation directs general gifts where they can best advance its mission as needs and programs evolve.

Donate through Givebutter ↗Gifts to this general fund are unrestricted and are not reserved for a particular program or opening date unless the Foundation expressly accepts a donor restriction. Program availability and timelines may change. Continue to Givebutter to donate securely.Ask about a partnership ↗
An open invitation to collaborate

Wellness has
many doorways.

Education, creative expression, movement, nutrition, supportive relationships, purpose, and community connection can all be part of a conversation about well-being. We welcome ideas from many disciplines and lived experiences.

Bring your ideas.

You might be an educator, artist, youth mentor, wellness professional, business owner, nonprofit leader, or community member. Let’s explore what we could create together for people across the lifespan.

Explore creative collaborations ↗

These are possibilities for collaboration. Specific programs and availability will be shared as they are confirmed.

Start a conversation

Good things begin
with connection.

For partnerships, donation arrangements, or general questions, reach out to the foundation.

General inquiry form ↗info@thewellnessinstitutefoundation.org ↗

Please contact us by email for now. Our phone number will be available when we officially launch.

Mayfield Heights, Ohio
Serving the Greater Cleveland community

General inquiries only. Please do not send medical information. Program availability will be announced as offerings are confirmed. Clinical appointments are not yet open.