Now accepting summer cards!
- Thank you to our community of joy creators for the cards that you continue to make with care and kindness. You have spread joy nearly 5,000 times to older adults to date!
- We are now accepting summer and general cheer cards.
Joyful Notes Project
In direct response to quarantining during the Covid-19 crisis, we began partnering with the Simsbury United Methodist Church and First Church of Christ, Simsbury to bring this program to Simsbury, CT. In June, 2020, the Simsbury Public Library joined as a Project partner. Over the past year, the program has grown and we continue to expand the Joyful Notes Project to additional towns in Hartford and Litchfield counties!
People ages 3-93 are hand creating greeting cards that we deliver to local older adult living communities.
As a community, we are bringing joy to isolated older adults, mitigating their feelings of loneliness, and letting them know that someone is thinking of them.
We have delivered cards to:
- Anthology of Farmington residents, Farmington CT
- Anthology of Simsbury residents, Simsbury CT
- Avon Health Center residents, Avon CT
- Belden Forest Court residents, Simsbury CT
- Duncaster residents, Bloomfield CT
- Governor's House residents, Simsbury CT
- McAuley residents, West Hartford CT
- McLean Life Plan Community independent and assisted living residents, Simsbury CT
- Meals on Wheels recipients living at home, Simsbury CT
- The Residence at Brookside residents, Avon CT
- Residents of the Virginia Connolly Residence, Simsbury CT
- Seabury residents, Bloomfield CT
- Simsbury Senior Center grab and go lunch recipients, Simsbury CT
- St. Mary Home residents, West Hartford CT
- Sullivan Senior Center grab and go lunch recipients, Torrington CT
- Various older adult residents, Rocky Hill CT
- Westerleigh residents, Unionville CT
If you are employed at a central Connecticut adult living community or senior center and would like the opportunity to receive cards to distribute to older adults, please contact us using the form below.
Everyone, young and old, is invited to participate virtually in the Project!
We invite everyone, regardless of where you live, to participate in making Joyful Notes. Anyone interested is welcome to make cards at home (if including envelopes, please leave them unsealed), place them together in a larger envelope, and mail them to us at: For All Ages, P.O. Box 61, Simsbury CT 06070.
(If you are local to Simsbury, CT, you may drop your cards in the bin outside the children's entrance of the Simsbury Public Library.)
We will ensure that they are delivered to older adult residents in the greater Hartford,CT area.
