SOAR Together's Flower Rescue Program provides charitable services through planning and executing multigenerational outreach programs providing recycled flowers to spark social engagement for those at-risk of loneliness and social isolation.  Through individual and group programming and services, the SOAR Team instructs and informs participants and recipients about the cathartic nature of flowers while sparking engagement to combat loneliness. SOAR Together trademarked "Flower Rescue" in January of 2024.

 

The operational model for SOAR's Flower Rescue Program is an environmentally-responsible one which helps reduce carbon footprint and waste by transporting surplus, salvageable flowers from grocers, florists, and farms to individuals, agencies, and communities in need of uplifting and social connection. SOAR fills a gap in the supply chain of flower exchange, ensuring flowers and their packaging are cleaned, arranged, and circulated to those at-risk of loneliness and social isolation (and their often devastating health impacts).   Learn more about SOAR's Flower Rescue Program.

 

With a mission of ending the epidemic levels of loneliness and social isolation in Fairfield County and across Connecticut, SOAR has a recipe through the Flower Rescue Program, whether delivering one arrangement to an unexpecting individual or sets of 25-50 to weekly recipients.  Positive measurable outcomes are already becoming apparent since he program began in early June of 2023, as arrangements are delivered along with the most critical aspect of the program model -- social visits. 

 

Flowers are proving a greater "vehicle for change" than we could have ever imagined, a method and means through which walls come down, colors change moods, and the simple message of love handed from one person to another makes both feel the spark of uplift and love simultaneously. 

 

It's a simple model in terms of execution and delivery with complex outcomes in terms of healing on the part of the giver and receiver. Those in palliative care making arrangements to deliver to shelters for those facing housing insecurity?  Absolutely.  Kids who are socially isolated in school settings making arrangements for a skilled nursing facility or to those in their own families and neighborhoods?  Again, the answer is Absolutely.

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A huge thank you to SOAR's Flower Rescue Program Partners.  Please support these tremendous companies helping those in our communities most at-risk of loneliness and social isolation: