About Us
Our staff & volunteers
Our Leadership Team
Stephen Fedele III
President
Stephen Fedele III serves as President of Awakened Hearts Foundation. Stephen provides organizational leadership, community outreach, mentorship, and program support while helping guide the foundation’s mission of creating compassionate, healing-centered services for individuals and families throughout the community.
Cindy Fedele, LPT, CHT, SUDRC
Program Director
Cindy Fedele is the Founder and Program Director of Awakened Hearts Foundation. With over 21 years of experience in the medical and behavioral health field, Cindy combines clinical experience with integrative and trauma-informed approaches to support whole-person wellness, behavioral health, addiction recovery, and community healing initiatives.
Katie Winther
Secretary & Case Manager
Katie Winther serves as Secretary and Case Manager for Awakened Hearts Foundation. Katie supports the organization through administrative coordination, organizational communication, client advocacy, care coordination, and supportive services for individuals and families navigating recovery and wellness resources.
Mallory Griffith Wells
Treasurer
Mallory Griffith Wells serves as Treasurer for Awakened Hearts Foundation. Mallory provides financial oversight, organizational support, and community leadership while helping strengthen the foundation’s long-term growth and sustainability.
Brian Donegan
Board Member & Development Advisor
Brian Donegan serves as a Board Member and Development Advisor for Awakened Hearts Foundation. Brian supports the organization through nonprofit development guidance, grant strategy, partnership building, and organizational growth planning to help expand services and community impact.
Angela McMahon, PhD
Compliance Officer
Angela McMahon serves as Compliance Officer for Awakened Hearts Foundation. Angela helps oversee organizational accountability, compliance standards, ethical practices, policy development, and operational integrity to support the foundation’s mission and community trust.
Our history
Our History
Awakened Hearts Foundation was created from a deep passion to help individuals and families who are struggling with behavioral health challenges, trauma, addiction, emotional pain, and the growing gaps within our healthcare and recovery systems. What began as a vision rooted in compassion and lived experience has grown into a mission focused on creating safe, supportive, and healing-centered services for the community.
Founder Cindy Fedele, a Licensed Psychiatric Technician with over 21 years of experience in the medical and behavioral health field, witnessed firsthand the challenges many individuals face when trying to access quality mental health care, addiction recovery support, trauma services, and long-term healing resources. Through years of working in healthcare, recovery settings, and integrative wellness practices, the vision for Awakened Hearts Foundation was born.
The foundation was established to help bridge traditional behavioral health services with whole-person, trauma-informed, and community-centered approaches to healing. Awakened Hearts Foundation believes healing extends beyond crisis stabilization and focuses on supporting the emotional, mental, physical, and social well-being of every individual served.
Awakened Hearts Foundation officially received federal 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in 2026 and continues building partnerships, programs, and community collaborations focused on behavioral health support, addiction recovery, trauma healing, wellness education, and empowerment services throughout Fresno and surrounding communities.
As the organization grows, the mission remains centered on compassion, connection, dignity, hope, and creating opportunities for lasting transformation and recovery.
Our mission
Our Mission
Awakened Hearts Foundation is dedicated to supporting behavioral health, addiction recovery, trauma healing, wellness education, and community empowerment through compassionate, whole-person, and integrative approaches to care. Our mission is to help individuals and families heal, grow, and rediscover hope through connection, support, education, and transformative services.