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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.

our RECENT compassion events

As part of our compassion effort, Resilience High Point hosted the Stitching Stories Reimagined exhibit in partnership with the High Point Public Library in January and February of this year. 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.

We held a re-entry simulation in partnership with Goodwill of the Triad. We also held a panel with educators, formerly incarcerated women, and those currently working to help formerly incarcerated women succeed.

Community members also helped create a compassion quilt. Each quilt block will be designed by the participant from precut fabrics to send a caring message.

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Community Leader panel discussion

During our community read of “Trust First”, local leaders discussed how radical trust can change an individual and a community. You can watch it on Facebook here or on Youtube here.

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