Joy's House

January 22, 2020

One word that is used a lot to describe Joy’s House and our culture is family. It’s how our Guests and caregivers, our volunteers, our staff, and our friends describe this special organization. If you’ve had any sort of role or connection here in the past 20 years, chances are, you’ve felt it too. And...

A Big Family

January 6, 2020

Mr. Jerry wears his orange hunting jacket like a badge of honor. And if you ask him about the walking stick that is nearly always in hand, you may just get the story of how he whittled it himself. He has always been full of life and love. Therefore, it came as a surprise when...

Today We Celebrate You

December 23, 2019

Happy Holidays from your friends at Joy’s House! What an amazing holiday season we’ve had this year! It’s been full of thankfulness, love, special songs, visits from our favorite Santa, yummy treats, time with our wonderful volunteers of all ages, ridiculous outfits, and many parties and gatherings. We want to give a special thank you...

Celebrating Our Future: Miss Jean & Hernan

December 9, 2019

While Joy’s House has accomplished a great deal in the last twenty years, there is still a lot to be done. Frankly, more and more of us are family caregivers for someone we love. Caregiver Support Services continue to be influential as we find ourselves on this caregiving journey. And there simply aren’t enough adult...

It’s #GivingTuesday!

December 3, 2019

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday. It was a busy weekend with a flurry of sales and shopping! We hope you’ve checked off a lot of loved ones on your list, and that you’ll consider checking off just one more thing today, December 3rd, in the spirit of generosity of the season: donating to...

A note from Tina, our Founder and President

November 26, 2019

Note: This letter was originally written and published in our newsletter on November 6th, 2019, before Tina began her two month medical leave to fight breast cancer. Our Campaign by the NumbersGoal: $559,000Amount Raised: $719,827in only 8 weeks with over 1,000 individual donors! Give Now You guys. We did it. You did it. Together, we...

Celebrating our Roots (Melissa)

November 21, 2019

It is impossible for us to name every single person who has influenced Joy’s House to be who we are – simply impossible. But what we can do is celebrate you. During this month of thanksgiving, we want to show our gratitude for how you have helped shape this incredible organization. Twenty years is a...

November 6, 2019

The future of Joy’s House feels stronger, not only because of your amazing support and the overwhelming success of our Critical Fundraising Campaign, but also because of our incredible leadership. We are thrilled to announce that our very own Cayla Rosine has been promoted to Vice President of Finance and Operations here at Joy’s House!...

November 5, 2019

2019. It has been a year of joyous celebration, as we reached our 20th year of serving adults with life-altering diagnoses and their families. It has also been one of, if not THE hardest years at Joy‘s House, as we faced financial and structural hardships and had to really take a look in the mirror...

The Final Week

October 28, 2019

This is it: the final week. The final week to rally together and keep Joy’s House in our community. The final week to prove that caring for adults living with life-altering diagnoses and providing support and resources for their caregivers is a valuable service, and something our community needs. The final week to step up...