Creating Hope Through the Performing Arts
Mending Hearts is a performing arts day camp for young people who have experienced the death of one or both parents.
Registration is NOW open!
Returning families, please check your email for more details and your special returner registration link.
Grades 3-5
Camp Dates: July 22-27, 2024
Grades 3-5 camp is a 6-day camp (Monday-Saturday, 9am-4pm) for students entering grades 3-5 in the 2024-2025 school year.
Registration closes July 8th
Grades 6-8
Camp Dates: July 8-19, 2024
Grades 6-8 camp is a two-week weekday camp for students entering grades 6-8 in the 2024-2025 school year.
Registration closes June 24th
Registration Fees
$50 per family. Scholarships are available — no child will be turned away due to financial hardship.
Lunch & Extended Care
Before and after extended care is available for a fee. Lunch & snacks are provided free of charge.
Attendance
Please note that campers must be available to attend all days and hours of camp in order to participate.
About Mending Hearts Camps
Surrounded by a community of peers who have experienced a similar loss, campers explore their creativity through a variety of performing arts and community building activities.
Orpheum trained teaching artists, supported by healing counselors, facilitate activities that encourage community and collaboration while celebrating the unique talents of each individual camper, giving them creative space to express themselves, build self- confidence, and develop friendships that let them see they are not alone.
As part of the healing journey of the program, campers will practice a variety of coping skills, and have opportunities to process difficult emotions in one on one counseling sessions with professional healing counselors during camp.
Through sharing time with adults who have experienced losing a parent as a child, participants see that there is hope for their future. Following the sharing time experience, campers also have the opportunity to reflect in small groups with healing counselors.
“My father passed away unexpectedly when I was seven years old. As I grew, I realized it was my childhood involvement in the performing arts that gave me the tools to express myself, a group of supportive friends, and the self-confidence to achieve the success I have enjoyed in life. With Mending Hearts Camp, I am pleased the Orpheum can give other children who have experienced the devastating loss of a parent the same benefits of the performing arts that I had as a child.”
— Brett Batterson, President & CEO
