Crossroads Kids: A place for grieving children to connect

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How Crossroads Kids Helps Grieving Children

Crossroads Kids encourages a model of healing by allowing children the opportunity to interact and form lasting bonds with other children who are also struggling with grief after the death of a loved one.

Connecting Kids with Peers Also in Grief

By incorporating therapeutic activities into a fun camping experience, Crossroads Kids allows children to connect with peers who are also experiencing grief.

Crossroads Kids Camp ensures that families are involved at every level of the healing process.

Involving Families and Loved Ones

By involving their families, parents process their own feelings in addition to their children's, encouraging openness and honesty, promoting an effective healing process, and strengthening the family unit.

Professional and Compassionate Staff

We maintain a 1:2 ratio of staff to campers to ensure ample supervision and support. All therapeutic groups are overseen by credentialed, master's level social work and psychology staff.

Crossroads Kids is a 3-day, 2-night camp held at various locations throughout the country and is designed for children between the ages of 6 and 12.

Millions of children experience the pain of a loved one's death without support and help from significant adults. Sadly, most childhood grief is overlooked and grieving children can begin to feel isolated and alone in their sadness, leading to developmental and behavioral issues.

The Reality of Childhood Bereavement

4.8 Million Children Are Grieving

4.8 million children in the U.S. experience the death of one or both parents, not including the loss of other significant people in their lives.

The grief of children is often overlooked by the adults who are dealing with their own grief.

Children’s Grief is Often Overlooked

Sadly, children's emotional needs are often overlooked as their friends cannot relate and the significant adults in their lives are consumed by their own grief.

As grieving children begin to feel continually alone and isolated, they can begin acting out in anger and have difficulty connecting with others as they grow up.

Isolation During Grief is Harmful

The isolation grieving children find themselves in can lead to withdrawal, anger, acting out, aggression, and other issues.

We envision a community that honors the validity of child and family grief by facilitating the healing process.

Learn how Crossroads Kids Camp helps grieving children and families heal.

How We Help Campers & Families Heal

Crossroads Kids therapeutic arts and crafts sessions help children express complex emotions and connect with other grieving children in a nonverbal manner.

Arts and crafts give children a safe, nonverbal means of expressing their grief and empowers them to share their story with others in a creative way.

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Our camps encourage group sharing and learning as a way of reinforcing that our grieving campers are not alone and that they are worthy of love and friendship.

By children sharing their stories and experiences with one another in a safe and compassionate setting, they are shown that they are not alone.

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Our Crossroads Kids camps are satffed by highly-trained bereavement specialists, social workers, and psychologists who are there for your children every step of the way on their path toward healing after the death of a loved one.

Our credentialed social work, bereavement, and psychology staff help children process their grief and understand their emotions.

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Therapeutic play, music, and dance helps children express their grief and other complex emotions in nonverbal ways and helps children connect to others who are also on the healing journey.

Play and music empower children to express themselves, interact with other grieving children, and reclaim a sense of normality.

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See our previous Crossroads Kids camps and the healing we were privileged to bring to so many grieving chidlren and families.

See our campers' journey in our Crossroads Kids camp albums!

See the Crossroads Kids Camp in action with out 2016 Guthrie, OK interactive camp album!

See the Crossroads Kids Camp in action with out 2016 Excelsior Springs, MO interactive camp album!

See the Crossroads Kids Camp in action with out 2017 Guthrie, OK interactive camp album!

See the Crossroads Kids Camp in action with out 2017 Excelsior Springs, MO interactive camp album!

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Guthrie, OK

Fall 2019

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Excelsior Springs, MO

Fall 2019

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If there is a grieving child in your life that could benefit from Crossroads Kids Camps — or benefit from other available children’s grief programs — email us, or request information concerning your child's attendance at an upcoming Crossroads Kids Camp.