2025 The Holiday Project's Thanksgiving Day Visit to The Gardens of Bellaire
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Meeting Location:
Lobby
The Gardens of Bellaire
4620 Bellaire Blvd.
Bellaire, Texas 77401
713-665-3888 (facility)
Visit confirmed by
Cedric Branch - Activity Director
Contact Person: Thanksgiving morning:
Activity Asst. Director, Jessica Maxwell and
The Holiday Project’s Team Leader - Danny Nguyen
Volunteers can make or purchase Thanksgiving cards if desired, to pass out to residents during visit.
There are 90 residents (making or buying cards is only if you want to be guaranteed a card to pass out) also any amount of cards are appreciated.
Questions - email Danny Nguyen at: ssanceman@gmail.com or Donna Martin at theholidayprojecthouston@yahoo.com
The Holiday Project - Volunteer Visits... on or near holidays to nursing homes and assisted living facilities....
Bring the Spirit of a Holiday to Those Who Otherwise Might Not Have a Celebration!
Make a Difference!! Brighten someone’s holiday and help them know they have not been forgotten.
Volunteers always share that they are blessed through their visits.
Volunteers will visit as a team with the residents in community areas and room to room.
Time spent at the facilities will vary, but generally the visits last from about 1 to 2 hours, depending on the size of the facility and other circumstances unique to the team and the facility. (Sometimes the staff on duty want us to visit in a communal area of the facility such as a recreation room or dining hall. Other times we are invited to do both a communal visit and then break into small clusters to visit room-to-room for those persons who don't get out of their rooms. Which of these approaches is used also affects the total length of time we spend at a particular facility.)
Goal: To brighten up the holiday by passing out Thanksgiving cards, if cards are available, and visiting with the residents and rehab patients, spreading JOY through talking!
Upon arrival: Meet in Lobby at The Gardens of Bellaire until volunteers all arrive, typically by 10:10 am
Visit in a team...large groups can break up into smaller teams.
In the note section of this sign up, please add how many will be visiting.
See detailed instructions for day of visit below....
Visit Policies:
1. Remember that you are in a medical facility. Be aware and be careful.
2. Do not assist a resident in moving from or to a wheelchair. Ask an employee to help.
3. Do not feed or offer food to residents unless directed by an employee.
4. When entering a resident’s room, always knock and introduce yourself as a volunteer. Ask permission before entering.
5. Stay with the group as you move through the facility.
6. Do not go into isolation rooms, those rooms will be marked with a sign to see staff before entering. If you are passing out cards please give staff cards for residents in isolation rooms.
7. Because of HIPAA Privacy Rules most facilities require a signed photo release for pictures of/with residents. Therefore no pictures of resident's faces are allowed on The Holiday Project visits. The best way to take a picture is taking the back of the resident and the faces of the volunteers. The experience can still be documented in a picture without the resident's face.
8. It is not required but volunteers can make handmade Thanksgiving cards to pass out during the visit.
9. Have Fun! Together we CAN make a difference and REMEMBER...
"To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world!"
10. Any questions email Danny at ssanceman@gmail.com or Donna at theholidayprojecthouston@yahoo.com
Participant Notes:
Please make sure you are in good health for the visit and have not recently had Covid or the Flu or anything contagious!!
Thanks for sharing your time to brighten up Thanksgiving Day for the residents and rehab patients.
We encourage you to send follow up pictures and/or stories, to Danny after your visit. Stories and pictures are always appreciated....email him at: ssanceman@gmail.com
