Annie's Hope - The Bereavement Center for Kids

Annie's Hope - The Bereavement Center for Kids

Annie's Hope is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides comprehensive support to children, teens, and their families who are grieving the death of someone significant. All programs of Annie's Hope are funded by grants and donations, which allows them to be offered to families free of charge.

Every summer, Annie's Hope hosts two - 5 day/4 night, overnight camps. Camp Courage is for kids ages 6-11 and Camp Erin - St. Louis is for kids ages 12-18. These are very special camps...every camper has a broken heart because they are grieving the death of someone they love. Every camper feels sadness, but wants to feel joy. Every camper feels alone, but wants to feel connected. Every camper feels fear, yet wants to feel hope.

Sponsor One

Annie's Hope strives to accept a total of 175 grieving children to camp. With your help we can support campers and give them the opportunity to receive grief support, completely free of charge, in their time of need.

Below, a 15 year old camper describes the impact of Camp Erin.

"I was so grateful for Camp Erin during this time in my life. My mother just died and it's been really hard for me having to take on new responsibilites at home, it was really nice to be a kid again. It's also really helpful to be around kids who knew what I was going through..."

Camp would not be possible without the amazing Camp Counselors who volunteer weeks of their time to support grieving kids. Every kid who comes to camp will have a story similar to the one above. Annie's Hope understands the powerful impact that our Camp Counselors have on the campers, and on the success of camp. We are incredibly grateful!

Along with their family and friends, we are challenging each of our Camp Counselors to raise $600 to Sponsor One camper.