From Helping Our Minds Expand to the Home Training Institue
. . .we've come a long way.
People often ask Catalysts what does "HTI" stand for? Here's our story. In 1992, Folami and a small group of friends and colleagues founded Home, Inc. – Helping Our Minds Expand. It was a grassroots effort with the first initiative being the HOME Hotline – you could call the hotline to hear about mind-expanding events happening across the city of Atlanta.
HOME’s founders would pick up every flyer they saw during their weekly travels and Folami would record a message twice a week promoting those culturally affirming and educational events. Folami even wrote a song about Helping Our Minds Expand.
In 1989 Folami authored Self-Esteem Through Culture Leads to Academic Excellence, a 32-session curriculum for grades K-8 and high school, along with Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu.
It was out of the combination of efforts to promote culture in the community that the HOME Training Institute was born.
In 2015, HOME Training Institute “grew up” to become HTI Catalysts, a network of independent consultants committed to expanding their reach and skillsets by working in partnership to deliver the HTI way with the shared mission in mind – to utilize facilitative experiences to shift leaders and communities towards equity and shared visioning that impact change.
This year, we became even clearer on our vision and mission.
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