Camp Evergreen helps youngsters smile and have enjoyable via troublesome instances

Children grieve a lot in another way from adults. Their grief comes and goes rapidly – unhappy one minute, laughing and taking part in the following. Often, youngsters don’t present or speak about their grief in entrance of their mother and father as a result of they’re afraid to make their mother and father cry. Center for Hospice Care’s Camp Evergreen helps deal with all of those points.

Camp Evergreen is a day grief camp in early summer time for youth and youths and a Saturday household workshop for youth and fogeys/guardians within the fall. Both periods assist campers understand that many different youth and youths have skilled demise. It additionally educates them on the grief course of and constructive methods to cope. Along with alternatives to share about their important particular person, the teenagers and youth have a fun-filled camp expertise. Activities embrace arts and crafts, reminiscence making and a ritual of remembrance at each periods, in addition to outside video games, boating, fishing and archery on the summer time camp.

Camp Evergreen is run by CHC’s bereavement counselors and skilled grownup volunteers, a few of whom function buddies. Buddies are with a camper or a small group of campers all through the summer time day camp. Other volunteers assist arrange actions and assist campers as wanted all through the day. 

This 12 months’s Camp Evergreen schedule is as follows:

Camp Evergreen day camp
Saturday, May 30
One-day camp for youth and youths ages 10 – 17 (18 if nonetheless in highschool)

Camp Evergreen workshop
Saturday, October 25
One-day workshop for folks/guardians and their youngsters, ages 6 – 12

Children ages 10 – 12 can select to do both of the camp experiences. The day camp will likely be held at Camp Alexander Mack in Milford, IN. Free transportation will likely be offered at designated pickup websites and a licensed nurse will likely be at camp always. The workshop will likely be held at Center for Hospice Care’s Mishawaka Campus.
 
Thanks to assist from the Linda Lloyd Mission Endowment for Camp Evergreen, there isn’t any cost for youth and youths to attend. Space is restricted and spots will likely be reserved as soon as a accomplished software packet is returned. To request a camper or volunteer packet, e-mail evergreen@cfhcare.org or name our Life Transition Center at 574-255-1064.