Look out for each other!
We are better together. That’s why the 1,000 Neighborhood Gatherings community campaign is back for 2025, as Colorado Springs continues to build a city of great neighbors and neighborhoods. A global study showed that knowing as few as six of your neighbors can decrease levels of social isolation and loneliness. This summer, we're encouraging you to work together with your neighbors to keep your neighborhood safe and prepared!
Ways to get prepared with your neighbors
Join (or create) your Neighborhood Watch!
Did you know that the Colorado Springs Police Department helps facilitate a neighborhood watch program for the City? A Neighborhood Watch is a group of neighbors who are willing to communicate with each other and pass along crime and non-crime-related neighborhood information. The groups are educated in crime prevention, trained to observe suspicious activity and report the activity to each other and the police. Learn more about the program and how to set up or join a Neighborhood Watch in your area:
CSPD: Neighborhood Watch Program
And once you've read through the program details and block captain handbook, reach out to your division's crime prevention officer to get started:
Sand Creek: 444-7276
Gold Hill: 385-2117
Stetson Hills: 444-3168
Falcon: 444-7246
Prepare with CSPD and CSFD's checklists and more!
It's important to take fire safety and crime prevention seriously, and what better (or more fun!) way to do that than to get together with your neighbors and make sure your homes are safe! Check out the combined CSFD Community Risk Reduction and CSPD Crime Prevention checklists below:
CSFD & CSPD Preparedness Checklist
CSFD also has resources that may be helpful to get you and your neighbors safe and prepared in the event of a wildfire:
Plan ahead for emergencies with PPROEM!
The Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management has some great resources for you and your community to get prepared ahead of any emergencies. Check out the PPROEM website for tips and guides to making plans for family communication, special needs, household matters and more; and learn how to build household, evacuation, and vehicle kits so you and your neighborhood can feel well prepared.
Don't forget to sign up for Peak Alerts, too!
Be entered to attend our Community Lunch!
As part of the City of Colorado Springs and Hey Neighbor's 1000 Neighborhood Gatherings initiative, we're planning a fun and delicious final gathering to celebrate community connection and to bring neighbors together by sharing a spectacular meal. We're partnering with Longer Tables, an organization dedicated to cultivating humanity through connection and belonging, and the creators of the "mile long table" event this July in Denver.
This year, all neighbors who register a gathering with the 1000 Neighborhood Gatherings initiative will be entered into a drawing to attend our Community Lunch on September 28 – National Good Neighbors Day. This special event will bring together community-builders across Colorado Springs to share stories, inspire one another, and celebrate the connections being formed in neighborhoods throughout our city.
Whether your gathering is big or small, we want to hear about it, so don't forget to register! Colorado Springs was rated the #1 Most Neighborly City for a reason, and we can't wait to hear about the connections you make, the relationships you build, and the change you create together.
