For children who attend Camp Erin, grief is part of the experience.
The camp, created and funded by The Moyer Foundation, is free for bereaved children between ages 6 and 17. They meet with counselors and are allowed to express their feelings about the death of a loved one.
New York Life Insurance Company is one of Camp Erin’s sponsors. “Very often, children are in circumstances where they don’t talk about grief because they don’t want to make the surviving parent or other family members sad,” says Chris Park, president of the New York Life Foundation. “We want to help people understand that communication is good—talk about it; celebrate that life.”
