#Community Support

Look for the Helpers, Find Resilience

Consequently, the quote is an invitation to join the frame. Start small: learn CPR/first aid (American Red Cross), register as a blood donor, or take Psychological First Aid training (WHO, 2011). In neighborhoods, join CERT, map skills and vulnerabilities, and build phone trees. For families, have children draw the helpers they know—nurses, bus drivers, neighbors—and assemble simple “kindness kits” with water, snacks, and bandages. Social science shows that modeled action spreads (Bandura, 1977) and that naming someone to help disrupts the bystander effect (Darley & Latané, 1968). Looking for helpers, we discover how to be one. [...]

Finding the Helpers: Hope in Every Crisis

After Sandy Hook (2012) and the Boston Marathon bombing (2013), Rogers’s words resurfaced as strangers lined up to donate, runners finished the race to reach hospitals, and teachers shielded students. During COVID-19’s early months, balcony applause for clinicians and mutual-aid deliveries echoed the same neighborhood impulse (Spring 2020). Social media amplified the quote, but its staying power comes from lived experience: we remember being helped and helping. In this continuity, the Neighborhood extends beyond television—into streets, shelters, and clinics. And so the advice endures, not as sentimentality, but as a practice: look, find, join, and, in time, become the helper someone else is looking for. [...]

Encourage One Another and Build Each Other Up - 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Encouragement can take many forms, including words of affirmation, acts of kindness, or active listening. This verse calls for individuals to be intentional in their support of others in their lives. [...]