With the help of your contribution, we at Hold The Door For Others™ will be able to continue our efforts in researching, developing, and distributing free resources, workbooks, and services to those who are affected by any type of loss or adversity nation-wide and beyond. Some examples of our current resource publications and services are as follows:

Recent Resource Publications (2006)

• Finding Your Way Through Sudden Loss and Adversity: A workbook, which includes stories of adversity and growth that are designed to inspire people to use adverse events as a catalyst to personal growth.
• Personal Growth Guide: A developmental resource guide, which is comprised of a collection of resources (i.e. family, child and adult activities, books, websites, and etc.) that help people enhance their life skills related to managing loss and adversity.
• OTHERS(S) Resources Competency Indicator (ORCI): The ORCI is a tool that aims to increase one’s self-awareness so that one can realize which OTHERS(S) resources are areas of strength and areas of development. The OTHERS(S) resources are usable skills that both Hold The Door For Others and researchers in the social sciences have found to be very effective in helping people live with loss and adversity and grow from their experience.

Additional Resource Publications:

• Living With Loss: The Journey Through September 11th: Our first interactive workbook
• Gaining From Loss: Our Journey Continues: An interactive CD-ROM and accompanying workbook.
• Doorways Anthology: A collection of stories created by people who have experienced loss that is accompanied by reflective questions that encourage people to live with loss and adversity and write their own story of growth.

Hold The Door Day:

• In addition to providing free resources and workbooks, we also hold an annual event (Hold The Door Day), which is a free day for both children and adults who have experienced some kind of loss or adversity. Attendees participate in life-skills based workshops, informative seminars, and get the opportunity to connect with others who have experienced different types of hardships. Programming is acilitated by skilled and experienced Growth Consultants, Ph.D.’s, Psychologists, and inspirational speakers. Attendees also receive complimentary copies of our current resource offerings (listed above).

Outreach Initiatives/Inspirational Speeches:

• Tsunami: Dr. Tayyab Rashid traveled to Thailand to train helpers who were supporting people affected by the Tsunami. He trained them in Hold The Door principles and provided them with resources.
• New Orleans Out-Reach: In August of 2006, Hold The Door team-members were in New Orleans working with high-school students who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. They trained the students and faculty in Hold The Door philosophies so they can use their experience to help themselves and others grow through loss and adversity.
• Inspirational Key-Note/Workshop: In August of 2006, our President and Co-Founder Dr. Robert Fazio provided an inspirational key-note presentation to over 500 students at Mississippi State University about growing through loss and adversity. Hurricane Katrina affected many of these students. In addition, Dr. Fazio also ran a workshop for faculty members at Mississippi State University about Progressive Leadership in Times of Crisis. He was able to distribute Hold The Door For Others resources.

Future Initiatives:

• Growth From the Inside Out - Workshops/Trainings: Hold The Door For Others is looking into developing and delivering life-skills based workshops centered around building skill-sets within the OTHERS(S) resources. These workshops can benefit all age groups including children in grade school to business executives who are experiencing any type of hardship. Programming places emphasis on helping people gain insight into how their adversity affects them on an individual level (Inside) and then leverages that new found awareness to strengthen and build upon their relationships with others, as well as how they interact and respond to loss and adversity (Out).
• Hold The Door Homerooms: This program is a vision for students in middle school. Research shows that adolescents who develop social and emotional competencies are more successful in life than those who reflect only cognitive intelligence. Volunteers from Hold the Door challenge adolescents to reach out to others each day and to express their feelings. We are confident that students, who learn to empathize with, and support others, will build strong social and emotional skills within themselves.
• Healing Through Helping Others: Hold the Door for Others would like to begin a new program in which trained Growth Consultants are paired with individuals who are experiencing grief for the purpose of offering encouragement and support. Hold the Door for Others will design the training program, recruit, train, and pair the mentors with care receivers.