Letters from Santa Workshop is a holiday program offering highly personalized letters from Santa Claus to children battling illness and their siblings. Each holiday season, Care Letters and nearly 200 huge-hearted volunteers join the North Pole team in crafting a special kind of wonder for these families. Each letter is a beacon of hope and a reminder of everyday miracles.
Their own crisis made Mike and Jodee aware that the holidays are magical for many, but isolating for others. Cheer and merriment can feel forced and hollow to a grieving or displaced family, something that isn’t always evident to friends and neighbors. Rather than say or do the wrong thing, people will sometimes avoid the crisis altogether (unknowingly isolating the family in it).
Luckily, Santa’s wisdom and compassion are a natural bridge for people struggling during the holidays. He blends the language of crisis with the timeless magic of Christmas ~ creating a personal celebration of each child’s courage and achievements. Every letter bears a sprinkle of North Pole enchantment, an official “nice list” seal, and reassurance from a wide community (of volunteers and elves) cheering them on. It’s been said that some letters arrive slightly singed - the telltale sign of exuberant reindeer flying a bit too close to the sun!
Care Letters has infinite room for growth around the written word, as evidenced by the upcoming Superhero Project. Hospitalized children will ~ after choosing their own unique superpower ~ receive their own personalized superhero story in chapter-by-chapter installments. Naturally, they are the hero of their personalized, epic tale of triumph, in which good always prevails. Each story is colorfully illustrated to the child’s likeness and leaps from written to real when the child has donned their cape (boasting their superhero insignia attached safely to their hospital gown). With their new super-identity, each child recognizes himself as strong, powerful, & triumphant; able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Indeed, hospital procedures have a new foe…a powerful superhero who will not be undone.