About us
we see the best in others
Our Mission
To provide employment for persons living with mental illness in hopes of helping them to achieve independence and self-respect.
Our Value
Always pray to have eyes that see the best in people, a heart that forgives the worst, a mind that forgets the bad, and a soul that never loses faith in God.

Donna Howard
Founder Executive Director
Excellence Record
Donna Howard is the founder of Holding Hands Resale Shop. She retired from a full-time radiology career to begin a non-profit thrift store to give her daughter, who has paranoid schizophrenia, a job. Donna had a desire to provide jobs for mentally ill individuals in a safe work environment where they could reach their greatest potential. Holding Hands has been a blessing to the Lafayette-Oxford-University Community and to the employees that it has served. She is quick to give all the credit to the Lord who has made it all possible.
Our team

Julia Williams
Community Outreach Director

Trip Farris
Truck Dispatcher

Jenny Crowson
Store Manager

Kristen Cauley
Board President

Kelly Weems
Board Vice President

Bill Beckwith
Board Member

Emily Morrison
Board Member

Leslie Brooks
Board Member

Sue Hale
Board Member
What they've said about us

