Guidelines
High Five . . . Up HigH
Project
The mission of HIGH FIVE...UP HIGH is to create or capture a High Five as an encouraging message to share with patients, essential workers, and individuals in healthcare facilities and the community.
Option 1
Old School Style
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Create a High Five
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Visibly trace your hand on a letter-size piece of paper.
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Add a positive message.*
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Decorate in your own unique way.*
Check out the gallery for examples!
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Submit-
Scan or take a photo then
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Email or Text to
or 505.264.6142
*If you would like to mail your hands, please send us an email and we will provide an address for you.
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Email Questions:
If you are sending in honor of a specific person, i.e. Regina or location, please note that on the back of your hand or in your text/email.
Positive Messages:
- HIGH FIVE!, Have a good day, I am thinking of you, Hang in there, I am on your team, Sending happy thoughts to you, I am cheering for you, I can’t imagine how you feel, but I care, and am sending you my support, Etc.
Essential Workers:
- Thank you for ____
- You are appreciated for ___
- May others treat you as kindly as you treat others. ('Momism')
- Take care of yourself too!
- Thank you for being there when we can not be there.
- Your kind and respectful treatment is appreciated!
- It is so hard not to be there with our family and friends. I am so glad you
are there and I appreciate you!
- Etc.
Option 2
New School
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Capture a High Five
1. Take a photo of yourself and/or others extending a High Five!
2. Text to 505.264.6142 or
or email to
3. Include, al least, your first name, city, and state.
If you have more extensive information or messages you might include it as part of your picture, for example, holding up a sign in your photo.
We will upload it, print it, and distribute it
Guidelines
You can include:
Please include your first name and city, state!
You can also include your occupation, age,
school, grade, affiliation
Recipients’ medical conditions and religious preferences are unknown so:
Please DO NOT include:
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Personal identifying Information:
Last name, address, phone number
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Health statements:
Get well, speedy recovery, feel better...
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Religious References:
May God/Lord Bless You; You are in
my prayers, etc.
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Please NO Glitter or things that may fall or brush off.
This project is meant to shine a light as
a gesture of hope and to connect with others through a "High Five-Up High."
Waiver: PERMISSION TO SHARE
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By submitting your 'High Five', you are allowing me permission to freely share your artwork, messages/text, design, and images/photos with others.
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Your submission will be copied to allow for your messages to be shared with multiple facilities as long as it is deemed safe to send mail.
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Your hand will also be shared on the website so we can connect with others virtually.
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If you are not comfortable with copies being made, please attach a note telling me so, and I will do my best to respect your wishes.
This project went 'live' on July , 2020.
This is just my effort to reach out together, to do good and not harm.
