AT THE THRESHOLD OF LIFE FOUNDATION

Life has thresholds.

Some we choose.

Some we do not.

Some change us before we even understand what happened.

At the Threshold of Life Foundation, Incorporated is a non-clinical nonprofit centered on the human being at those crossings — particularly grief, caregiving, loss, remembrance, physical presence, physical absence and continuing connection.

We listen before we assume.

We seek to understand before we respond.

And when a need extends beyond our role, we help connect people with appropriate community and professional resources.

Safety without a price.

Support without control.

Connection without fear.

The person is the priority.

The circumstance tells us where to look. The person tells us what matters most.

Grief is not a problem to solve.

It is a human reality to witness.

Love does not disappear when loss begins.

Every loss has its own shape.

People, never spectacle.

Stories are shared with dignity and permission.

What is unseen or unheard may still be speaking.

We honor mystery without pretending to resolve it.

Darlynn Denise Faucet — Founder & President.

Board of Directors: Darlynn Denise Faucet, Marcedes Butts (Iowa State Director • Board Member), Tamea Waters, Yolanda McCullough, Joy Wiggins, Ebony Lincoln.

At the Threshold of Life Foundation, Incorporated (ATTOL), EIN 85-3209642, was formerly known as I Behold Her, Inc. Legal name is now At the Threshold of Life Foundation, Incorporated; EIN unchanged. State approval is complete. IRS update is in process; federal records may still show the former name during the transition.

My mother became pregnant at eleven.

She gave birth to me at twelve.

I entered life inside a story already carrying more than most people could see.

My own life would later cross thresholds of motherhood, homelessness, survival, caregiving, family loss, identity and revelation.

Then, at fifty-five years old, I discovered who my father was.

Our time was short.

I stayed beside him through the final stretch of his life.

After he entered hospice, I left briefly.

While I was gone, he died.

I returned and held his still-warm hand until they came to take him away.

I took a photograph.

I thought I was preserving a moment.

I did not yet understand that photograph would open a door.

People saw the hands.

Then they began bringing me theirs.

That became BEHOLD.

My mother's story gave language to The Child Within the Child.

My father's hand gave me another question:

Do you know what’s in your hand?

And my life taught me this:

There is often more happening inside a human being than the circumstance allows us to see.

That is where ATTOL begins.

— Darlynn Denise Faucet

Founder & President

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At the Threshold of Life Foundation, Incorporated (ATTOL), EIN 85-3209642, was formerly known as I Behold Her, Inc.

Legal name is now At the Threshold of Life Foundation, Incorporated; EIN unchanged.

State approval is complete. IRS update is in process; federal records may still show the former name during the transition.