community support

Locals helping locals

Community support is help, resources, or encouragement provided by a group of people who share a location, interest, or identity.

The term appears in social services community support workers, software the project has strong community support, and general contexts describing collective assistance She relied on community support after the fire.

It implies grassroots involvement rather than institutional or governmental aid.

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source of assistance

community supportgovernment assistance

State-provided support for citizens

state aid · federal assistance · government intervention · self-reliance · going it alone

social connection vs isolation

community supportsocial isolation

Lack of human contact

abandonment · alienation · exclusion · lack of support · ostracism

collective attitude

community supportsocial ostracism

Exclusion from group membership

public condemnation · shunning

Family

support, community, communal support

Familiarity
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