Healing Hearts Family Bereavement Camp

Our free Healing Hearts Family Bereavement Camp allows families who have experienced the loss of a loved one to cancer to come together for a weekend retreat. Each year, families spend three days at a working dude ranch in the beautiful Poconos. Fun activities like swimming, horseback riding, and fishing are combined with therapeutic grief activities led by CancerCare professional oncology social workers.

“The camp is a place where the families can come together and not feel different,” explains CancerCare’s Claire Grainger, LCSW. “The kids meet others who have experienced a similar loss and they don’t have to explain anything to one another…There are a lot of tears, but there is also so much laughter. They’ve all found new friends – people that understand.”

Registration for this year’s camp is closed. We’re collecting contact information for people who are interested in our 2016 camp.

Listen to “Fly, Butterfly, Fly” - a song written by the campers from last year:

No future dates available

Please contact Claire Grainger, LCSW, at 800-813-4673, ext. 6811 or cgrainger@cancercare.org. You may also contact Kathy Nugent, LCSW at 800-813-4673, ext. 6809 or knugent@cancercare.org.