Camp Stepping Stones

2024 camp has concluded.

2025 camp will be held May 30 to June 1, 2025
Your support makes a difference. See our 2024 impact report to find out more.

Camp Stepping Stones is a grief camp offered yearly providing a camp experience for youth ages 7 to 17 years who have experienced the recent death of someone significant in their lives. Led by compassionate volunteers, campers are provided a safe environment to explore their feelings of grief with peers who are also grieving.

Thank you to the following for their generous donation:

IERHA Five Dollar Club members
Little Elska
Manitoba Nurse’s Union
Project Linus
South West Palliative Care
Stonewall Family Foods 

Criteria for children attending:

• Must be between the ages of 7 and 17 years
• Must have experienced a significant death
• Must live in Manitoba
• Must complete and return the application prior to the deadline date
• Child must not have a history of or demonstrate any physical, emotional or verbal behavior that could endanger themselves or others
• At the discretion of the Camp Stepping Stones Committee, applicants may apply to attend CSS up to a maximum of two(2) times only if they have experienced a subsequent death, please note further information may be required from other professional support involved with the applicant 

Read through the Camp Stepping Stones Goals and Principles.

Camper application package

• Camp is full for 2024!
• Packing List

Volunteers

The benefits of volunteerism are plentiful: feelings of achievement, connecting with a diverse range of people who want to make a difference, developing new skills, offering your talents, engaging in new experiences and community involvement. Recent studies indicate that volunteerism does not just benefit your emotional well-being but may also contribute positively to your physical health!

Join the Camp Stepping Stones team and experience the therapeutic effects of volunteerism through a meaningful weekend. The main role of our volunteers is to provide friendship and support, not grief therapy. Volunteer applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Volunteer application package:

Step 1: Volunteer Application Information Letter

Step 2: Volunteer Application

 Volunteer Position Descriptions

Helpful Grief Links:

• Kidsgrief.ca and Deuildesenfants.ca  – free resources with modules to help parents, guardians and caregivers to support children and teens in times of grief.
• KidsHelpPhone.ca/ResourcesAroundMe
• Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services
• Support for Grieving Children – Palliative Manitoba
• Adolescent Grief YouTube
• Grief for Younger Children – Sesame Street Grief
• MyGrief.ca

Do you want to help?

Camp is supported solely by donation dollars, donations may be made to Camp Stepping Stones through:

Interlake-Eastern Health Foundation

Selkirk Regional Health Centre,

P.O. Box 5000, 120 Easton Drive,

Selkirk, R1A 2M2 or by phone at 204.785.7044 

Questions or Comments?

Contact the Camp Stepping Stones team by email at [email protected] or by phone at 1.855.494.7369