Offering Insight, Infrastructure and Strategy
Closing The Gap
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Over the past few decades,
the role of faith-based communities has expanded to address a wide range of needs beyond just spiritual care. More specifically, mental health awareness, community developments, and social justice advocacy have become critical to the collective identity of faith-based communities. Closing the Gap is a testament to that evolution. Offering insights, infrastructure and strategies, Closing the Gap sets out to explore how faith-based communities can continue to adapt to meet the changes of the 21st century. The text will teach leaders and lay persons alike how to use the “GAP Model,” a newly developed framework to engage in culturally competent programming and scalable solutions.
Closing the Gap Between Faith and Mental Health
The GAP Model is a trauma-informed, evidence-aligned framework designed to address emotional, spiritual, and systemic barriers that limit mental health engagement among individuals and faith communities.
This workbook offers a structured, replicable approach to assessing community needs, identifying relational and institutional gaps, and implementing safe, measurable, and scalable interventions. It integrates spiritual care with clinically informed strategies to support sustainable healing.
The GAP Model reframes trauma not as weakness or failure of faith, but as a disruption of safety, identity, and connection—providing practical tools to restore dignity, resilience, and communal well-being.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Dwight Holland
Dwight Holland is a humanitarian, philanthropist, author, business owner, and psychotherapist with extensive experience collaborating with community businesses, churches, and mental health agencies. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Religious Studies from Martin University and his master’s degree in Psychotherapy and Faith, with a concentration in clinical diagnosis and theology, from Christian Theological Seminary, where he was later awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity for his innovative, systems-based integration of faith and therapy. As Owner and Board Chairman of Family & Community Partners, Family & Community Solutions, Family Preservation & Reunification Services, Family & Community Partners Resources, and Mental Health Solutions & Recovery, he is committed to creating safe, transformative spaces that help individuals, families, and organizations change unhealthy patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior to achieve sustainable well-being and measurable success. He is the co-founder of the Men & Mental Health, Women & Mental Health, and Youth & Mental Health Movements, initiatives designed to reduce stigma, identify barriers, and connect individuals to affordable resources. Dr. Holland is the proud recipient of the 2025 NAMI Outstanding Professional Award, a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., serves on the Board of Faith and Action at Christian Theological Seminary, is a founding member of the African American Legacy Fund of Indianapolis and is the author of the newly released book, Closing the Gap: A Collaboration Between Psychotherapy and Communities of Faith.
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