Stories

We invite you to this year's Q Commons where our Founder, Tonia Tewell, will be speaking. Her topic is: How Does Unconditional Love Help Those Who Have Been Forgotten By Our Society. ⁠⁠

Deborah Lang has been tutoring Teresa, one of our young clients, for a year. Deborah has been volunteering with us for quite some time and has such a servant’s heart. She has an amazing ability to connect with kids of all ages.⁠

Joseph was only 13 when he mustered up the courage to flee from the shed he had been forced to live in for 3 months. You see, he wasn't worthy to be part of the family. He was considered rebellious for talking to apostates (those that were part of the religion but chose to leave).

Donations needed by July 25, 2019 . Education is an important pillar to Holding Out HELP. Holding Out HELP provides our clients with the...

Holding Out HELP has agreed to share this petition because full transparency is imperative for FLDS members to know they are not being...

Snacks are needed for on-going activities especially our GED Night & Mens and Women's Support Groups. This is often the only community...

After many conversations with community members in Grand Marias, Minnesota, Sam Brower and I (Tonia Tewell, Founder of Holding Out HELP) flew into Duluth MN and drove 2 hours to Grand Marais. Our drive along Lake Superior was nothing short of breathtaking.

Nothing speaks confidence like a suit! The guys at UWM Men’s Shop came for a visit and fitted our guys for brand new suits. We want to...

It’s very hard for many in polygamous communities to leave either because they don’t know where to look for help or because they don’t have enough trust to reach out, particularly when help might come with the price tag of joining some other religious group or being involved in promoting hatred.

I left my polygamist community suddenly in response to an abusive situation. I did not have a clear plan in place as to how I would be able to take care of my four young children and myself.

I left my marriage and the polygamist group that I was raised in. I first received help from Holding Out Help a year ago when I first...

I felt so alone and crippled coming from the FLDS lifestyle with nowhere to go and no one to rely on apart from friends who had already...

Samantha was married in the Jordan Temple into the mainstream Mormon Church. Fifteen years later, when she became pregnant with her seventh child, her husband started making jokes about polygamy. Soon after, the joking became serious discussions.

Locked in a shed with a thin blanket in below freezing temperatures, Isaiah sat by the fire that he had built from scraps, fully convinced he would be dead by morning. Two years earlier, at the age of 14, Isaiah had been sent to a “house of hiding” in Wyoming with other troubled and “unworthy” FLDS boys.

Enoch was only 15 when his father came to Salt Lake City and signed over guardianship papers to the Gutzwiller Family. He was immediately enrolled in school, which was more difficult than he had anticipated.

My old blue chair has seen it all... She came to live with us in 2010, when I left my ex-husband and the polygamous town we had lived in...

Holding Out HELP needs your support today to help continue our mission of transitioning people from a polygamous culture from isolation...

HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE Join Holding Out HELP for the Open House of our new facility! Date: November 27 , 2015 (Black Friday) Time: 10am-1pm...

Follow award-winning journalist, Lisa Ling, as she reveals life and reality within the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints. In the...

DOCUTAH International Documentary Film Festival™ announced that it will screen Prophet’s Prey at the O.C. Tanner Amphitheater in...