The camps are free to campers, thanks in part to support from Carle Health Center for Philanthropy.Ĭarle Health Hospice continues to accept applications for both camps for campers and volunteers. 23 at Camp Good News in Washington, Jill Prosser, volunteer and bereavement coordinator for Carle Health Hospice Greater Peoria Region and camp coordinator, said. Kourage Kids camp, which began in 2000, is for 5- through 18-year-olds and will be 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 30 at the 4H Memorial Camp at Allerton Park in Monticello, Elizabeth Rieke, a social worker with Carle Hospice and Home Care and lead coordinator for the camp, said. The camps are open to any children and youth, whether or not they have a connection to Carle Health.Ĭamp Healing Heart, which began in 2005, is for 5- through 17-year-olds and will be 8 a.m.-8 p.m. “I want to be able to help kids to understand what’s going on,” the former camper, now Amanda Stogdill, 21, of East Peoria, said.Ĭarle Health Hospice Services offers two camps for children and teens who have experienced the death of a loved one. Kourage Kids camp was on hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic. 23, she is returning to Kourage Kids camp at Camp Good News in Washington for her second year as a counselor. I wanted to be that person, helping other kids deal with grief.” “I went back because I remember being that little girl, not knowing what life would throw at me,” she said. Seven-year-old Amanda said OK.įast forward to 2018.
She participated in Kourage Kids camp in 2008 and had fun.Ī few months later, her mother died, and her dad asked her if she’d like to attend the one-day camp for a second year. Would you like to go?’ I said ‘Yeah, sure,’” she said. “My dad explained to me ‘There’s a place where you could go hang out with other kids who are going through the same thing. When Amanda Aberle was 6 years old, her aunt died and Amanda was hurting.
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