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Joyful Notes Project: Spreading joy/ Improving social health

Thank you to our joy creator community for the cards you continue to make with care and kindness. You have spread joy 11,500+ times to vulnerable older adults! 


Join us to spread joy and reduce loneliness year-round with special emphasis on Valentine's Day & the December holiday season.

Joyful Notes Project

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 accept general cheer, Valentine's Day and holiday cards year-round. We know that Valentine's Day and the December holiday season can be an especially difficult for older adults. We ask you to strongly consider making cards for these holidays if you can. We will save them for delivery during those times.


For ease of distribution of December holiday cards, we accept 'Happy Holidays' and 'Season's Greetings' cards (as opposed to cards reflecting holidays celebrated by specific faiths).

  

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
  • Brookdale Gables residents, Farmington CT
  • Duncaster residents, Bloomfield CT
  • Farmington Senior Center members, Farmington CT
  • Federation Home residents, Bloomfield CT
  • Florence Mill Apartments, Vernon CT
  • Governor's House residents, Simsbury CT
  • Hamilton Park Apartments, Norwich CT
  • McAuley residents, West Hartford CT
  • McLean Life Plan Community independent and assisted living residents, Simsbury CT
  • Meals on Wheels, Bloomfield 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
  • Rocky Hill Senior Center, Rocky Hill 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
  • Wallingford Housing Authority residents, Wallingford CT
  • West Hartford Senior Center grab and go lunch recipients, West Hartford CT
  • Wethersfield Housing Authority residents, Wethersfield 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 into the bin outside the lower level of the Simsbury Public Library.


We will ensure that they are delivered to older adult residents in central Connecticut.  

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From a Joyful Notes Project recipient:

"Thank you – Thank you – Thank you – 

I was having a rough day and this was the perfect unexpected surprise!" - Linda P.  

11,612 cards delivered as of 3/10/2023!

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