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Take a grieving child’s hand and help them be a kid while they heal

Your caring gift will send kids to Young Grievers Camp this summer and provide vital grief support services

Children who’ve lost someone they love have nowhere to turn where they can truly be themselves.

They’re often the only one of their peers who have lost someone. They’re carrying enormous questions they’re afraid to burden adults with and feel guilty about talking about the person they’ve lost.

They desperately need connection with other children who simply get it.

Thankfully, with the help of caring supporters like you, there’s a place they can go where they can finally breathe: Young Grievers Camp and essential RNCH grief support programs.

Through these donor-funded programs, we combine peer support, therapeutic grief work, and the healing power of just being a kid.

Will you take a grieving child’s hand and help them be a kid while they heal?

Without camp and other essential RNCH programs, grieving children will remain isolated in their loss, carrying unanswered questions and unprocessed emotions that can shape their entire lives. They learn to hide their grief, to put on a face at school, and to avoid talking about the person they are grieving because it makes others uncomfortable.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Your care and kindness can change the trajectory of a child’s life and help them heal through camp, counselling, and other essential services.

Through camp and grief support programs, children who’ve been carrying impossible burdens finally get answers from professionals. Kids who couldn’t say their loved one’s name out loud learn to speak about them proudly. Children who haven’t left home since their parent died discover they can face big challenges while being supported by peers who understand.

Through traditional camp activities blended with therapeutic grief work, children learn that healing doesn’t mean staying sad forever.

Will you give today to help a child learn that grief and joy can coexist?