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Help High Point Become a Most Compassionate City
Resilience High Point has created a “Compassion Charter” as a first step to motivate individuals, businesses, organizations, and cultural institutions to act in ways that begin a healing process towards neighborliness and compassionate behaviors.
Resilience High Point desires a ‘Compassionate Community’ whose members, in all their forms, are motivated to act when they are confronted with the reality that there are people in their midst who are, and have been, suffering. The Charter is the first step in a movement to create a City where compassion lives and thrives, where people look out for each other, where people collaborate on addressing community problems and issues, and where people celebrate what we have created and what we are going to create together.
Check out our upcoming compassion events
As part of our compassion effort, Resilience High Point is hosting the Stitching Stories Reimagined exhibit in partnership with the High Point Public Library from January 12 to February 18, 2026 and may be viewed 9:00am to 4:30pm daily. Stitching Stories was originally a 25-foot-long prison awareness quilt, crocheted by women incarcerated at North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women as they survived COVID in prison. The Arise Collective received funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to transform the quilt into a permanent and durable art installation that will travel the state alongside the original quilt to spark community engagement and dialogue with and about challenges and issues related to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women. Female incarceration rates are on a steep incline and the roots of incarceration reach deeply into every community.
Opening Ceremony, Morgan Room High Point Public Library Monday, January 12, 2026 2:45 pm. Local dignitaries and the community will be invited to celebrate the arrival of the traveling art exhibit to High Point. Refreshments will be served after remarks and the ribbon cutting.
Cider & Cookies, Post MLK Day Parade, High Point Public Library Sunday, January 18, 3:00 pm. As the MLK Day parade wraps up we will serve warm cider and cookies to capture the attention of parade attendees and encourage them to view the art exhibit.
Compassion Quilt Workshop, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, 1:00 – 4pm. January 20-22, Morgan Room High Point Public Library. Community members will have the opportunity to make a quilt block with the help of volunteers to become part of the Compassion Quilt that will be displayed upon completion at the Library. Each quilt block will be designed by the participant from precut fabrics to send a caring message. This is a free event but registration is requested to ensure enough volunteers are on hand to assist participants. Register here.
Compassion Workshop – Re-Entry Simulation & Lunch, Boys and Girls Club, 314 Barker Ave, Friday, January 30, 9:45 am – 1:00 pm. Community members will experience the hurdles faced by individuals returning to their community after imprisonment. The workshop is a realistic portrayal of the systemic barriers to beginning anew in a community. We will discuss what we learned with each other during lunch. Free event but preregistration is required. Register here.
Compassion Workshop- Lunch & Panel Presentation, Morgan Room, HP Public Library, Friday February 6, Noon. Join us for lunch, a short film, and a forthright discussion of the real costs of incarceration to communities and families. Our panel consists of educators, formerly incarcerated women, and those currently working to help formerly incarcerated women succeed. Register here.
The last day of viewing the art installation is February 18, 2026.
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