Camp Good Grief

Camp Good Grief is a 3-day camp experience that includes grief activity sessions using a feelings wheel, creating memory boxes, and planting trees. Campers take part in camp fire activities such as games, roasting marshmallows, singing songs, and acting out skits. The program also offers ceramics, arts and crafts, archery, swimming, hiking, canoeing, treasure hunts, a ropes course as a cooperative team building experience, and nondenominational morning prayer and music.

• Ages: 10–16 years old
• Schedule: 3-day camp experience
• Price: All costs of transportation, meals, accommodations, and activities of the camp are provided by Loma Linda University Children's Hospital Foundation free of charge.

Camp Good Grief is a 3-day camp experience for children and teens 10 to 16 years old who have had a sibling or parent die. The camp includes typical activities of a summer camp along with opportunities to work with professionals to share feelings related to loss and learn new ways to cope. The camp motto is “Truth, trust and TLC,” and there is a Christian component that includes nondenominational morning prayer and music.

Camp Good Grief is sponsored by Loma Linda University Children's Hospital Foundation, which is a Seventh-day Adventist institution. The mission at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital is “to make man whole.” News & World Report named Loma Linda University Children's Hospital one of the best hospitals in California and the Pacific region. Camp staff include child life assistants, child life specialists, hospice personnel, marriage and family therapists, pediatric doctors and nurses, social workers, university students in child and health-related fields, and youth chaplains and clergy.

Last updated July 1, 2026.