Welcome to the Helper’s Field Guide: A Resource for Those Who Show Up
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So, you’re a helper. Maybe you work in education, healthcare, public safety, social services, or community advocacy. Or maybe you’re a neighbor who checks in, a friend who listens, a volunteer who shows up when it matters. Whatever your role, you’re someone who chooses to care. What a thing to do. What a beautiful, impossible, necessary thing to do.
And yet, here you are, trying to make sense of a world that often feels designed to work against the very people you’re trying to help.
Well, we’ve been thinking about you.
At Mezzo Solutions, we know that helping is both an art and a science, a calling and a crisis, a career—or a simple human instinct—that will break your heart and fill it up in the same breath. And let’s be honest—sometimes, the systems meant to support people feel more like mazes, and the work of helping feels more like digging holes in wet sand.
That’s why we created The Helper’s Field Guide.
Not because we think we have all the answers, but because we believe that those who help others—whether it’s your profession, your passion, or just part of how you move through the world—deserve something more than burnout and bureaucracy.
Because helping should actually help.
And yet, here you are, trying to make sense of a world that often feels designed to work against the very people you’re trying to help.
Well, we’ve been thinking about you.
At Mezzo Solutions, we know that helping is both an art and a science, a calling and a crisis, a job—or a simple human instinct—that will break your heart and fill it up in the same breath. And let’s be honest—sometimes, the systems meant to support people feel more like mazes, and the work of helping feels more like digging holes in wet sand.
That’s why we created The Helper’s Field Guide.
Not because we think we have all the answers, but because we believe that those who help others—whether it’s your profession, your passion, or just what you do when someone needs you—deserve something more than burnout and bureaucracy.
Because helping should actually help.
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Helper's Guidepost
A collection of articles & stories designed to share insights, strategies, and real-world reflections for those who show up to help.
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Helper’s Dispatch
Short, impactful videos breaking down key ideas for those on the frontlines of care.
Support our work
If you’ve found our work useful and want to help us continue creating resources, workshops, and spaces for helpers, we’d love your support.
We’re a small business rooted in social work and public health, not a nonprofit. That means we don’t rely on grants—just people who believe in what we do. Every contribution helps us keep making tools that keep helpers steady in an unsteady world.
If you want to invest in this work, thank you. If you want to share it, thank you. However you support, we’re grateful. The world needs helpers. And helpers need support too.