Camp Good Grief
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, 11234 Anderson St, Room 1801, Loma Linda, CA 92354
About
Camp Good Grief is a 3-day camp experience where campers take part in grief activity sessions such as using a feelings wheel, creating memory boxes, and planting trees. Campers also join campfire activities that include games, roasting marshmallows, singing songs, and acting out skits, along with art activities like ceramics and other arts and crafts. Group activities include archery, swimming, hiking, canoeing, a treasure hunt, and a ropes course that is described as a cooperative team-building experience, as well as nondenominational morning prayer and music.
• Ages: 10–16 years old
• Schedule: Camp Good Grief is a 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 for children and teens 10 to 16 years old who have had a sibling or parent die and brings them together in an atmosphere of love and acceptance with a focus on meeting others their own ages who are also learning about and understanding their grief, while having chances to run, play, laugh, and be themselves. Grief activity sessions are described as helping the child or teen understand, cope, and feel their grief. The camp includes a Christian component along with nondenominational morning prayer and music.
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, youth chaplains, and clergy. Camp Good Grief is sponsored by Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital Foundation, which is a Seventh-day Adventist institution, and the hospital’s mission is “to make man whole.” The Leapfrog Group named the hospital a Top Children’s Hospital in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023. One of the camp’s mottos is “Truth, trust and TLC,” and a quoted camper, Sarah, is described as having been sad before camp and leaving camp happy.
Last updated April 2, 2026.
• Ages: 10–16 years old
• Schedule: Camp Good Grief is a 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 for children and teens 10 to 16 years old who have had a sibling or parent die and brings them together in an atmosphere of love and acceptance with a focus on meeting others their own ages who are also learning about and understanding their grief, while having chances to run, play, laugh, and be themselves. Grief activity sessions are described as helping the child or teen understand, cope, and feel their grief. The camp includes a Christian component along with nondenominational morning prayer and music.
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, youth chaplains, and clergy. Camp Good Grief is sponsored by Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital Foundation, which is a Seventh-day Adventist institution, and the hospital’s mission is “to make man whole.” The Leapfrog Group named the hospital a Top Children’s Hospital in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023. One of the camp’s mottos is “Truth, trust and TLC,” and a quoted camper, Sarah, is described as having been sad before camp and leaving camp happy.
Last updated April 2, 2026.
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