Stay Strong Foundation has successfully launched a variety of mentoring outreach and speaking events.

1. Terrie provided ongoing emotional, physical, and legal support for Twanna Rose, a single mother, and her 16-year-old son who has been facing the challenges of going through the criminal justice system. Efforts included securing an attorney for them and being and advocate for their struggles.
2. Bronx Councilwoman Helen Diane Foster invited Terrie to speak to more than 400 youngsters at an annual youth summit. SSF donated 400 copies of Terrie’s book, Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens, and provided copies of SSF spokesperson Reggie Hatchett’s poem, “Somebody Please Listen.” Terrie spoke about the challenges facing young people, including depression.
3. Spelman Women’s Leadership Summit: Terrie, SSF co-founder Xavier Artis, and staff member Chuck Beaumont spoke to 150 high school students from Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy and 20 students from Spelman College. Terrie addressed the students on the topics of leadership skills, handling challenges, and obtaining personal goals.
4. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Annual Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month: Terrie spoke to 400 people at a teen and parent/guardian dinner about leadership, personal responsibility, and the power of dreams.
5. Terrie spoke to 25 girls from Salvation Army in Brownsville, Brooklyn, N.Y., about leadership, personal responsibility, and the power of dreams. Prior to the event, the girls read Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens.
6. Kihana M. Ross was accepted as an intern after meeting Terrie through SSF benefactor Regina Kulik. Kihana attended several new business and client meetings. In particular, she was part of the whole new redevelopment phase of the nationally known Health and Wellness Company, “Carol’s Daughter.”
7. The SSF donated 25 books to KI Afrika Taalimu Shule Scholarship at St. Catherine AME Zion Church in New Rochelle, New York.
8. “Unlock the Power Within” Youth Leadership Summit at Columbia University: Terrie spoke to 300 students about being successful in life and business.
9. National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship based in New York: Terrie spoke to 75 students.
10. Lock Haven University – Lock Haven, PA (Freshman Convocation): Terrie spoke to 600 students.
11. First Annual Open Book Awards: Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens won award for Best Young Adult book. Terrie accepted award and spoke about the importance of youth and mentoring.
12. National Black Public Relations Society – Chicago, IL: Terrie spoke to 600 students about the demands of the Public Relations business and the importance of mentoring. At this event, Terrie had a young woman, Erika Goodrich, shadow her for the day Xavier Artis, co-founder of SSF, later hired Erika as a director of PR for Recycling Inspiration and The Terrie Williams Agency.
13. Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families Conference: Terrie addressed 200 philanthropists and requested that SSF spokesperson Reggie Hatchett, a 26-year-old she has mentored for the past five years, be added to the conference as a panelist along with Geoffrey Canada of Rheedlen Foundation.
14. Terrie spoke about the benefits and importance of mentoring at the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Luncheon. More than 300 attendees were present at this event located in White Plains, N.Y.
15. Terrie was a guest speaker at ESSENCE magazine’s Women’s Leadership Summit in New York where she addressed an audience of 300 professional women. Terrie also allowed Loretta Castle Dixon, a student from Audrey Cohen College, to shadow her and attend all conference workshops.
16. Brandeis University, Transitional Year Program: Terrie spoke about leadership skills, life challenges, and being successful in life and business. She spoke to 100 youth who were somewhat educationally deprived—these students spent a year of preparation at Brandeis before actually being accepted into the University.
17. Public Relations Student Society of America Annual Conference: Terrie addressed more than 2000 attendees.
18. International Initiative for Youth, Children & Families at Capitol Hilton in Washington, D.C.: More than 300 youth attended this event at which Terrie, Reggie Hatchett, and Xavier Artis spoke using Recycling Inspiration as the theme. As a result, the Foundation received a $50,000 grant.
19. Terrie was a panelist at the HIV/AIDS seminar in Los Angeles entitled “The Cost and Casualty of Silence.” The event was aired on C-Span, and Terrie spoke about the effects of mental illness in the African American community.
20. Terrie and SSF intern Ruxton McDougald spoke to students at Ditmas High School in New York. TW spoke to students about facing life issues and Ruxton was able to share his life story to younger students about having ADD and a hearing challenge.