Camp Stepping Stones
2025 camp was held May 30 to June 1, 2025
Your support makes a difference. See our 2025 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.
Camp Stepping Stones is possible because of the generosity of our communities. Thank you to everyone who supports this important program.
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. We are not accepting anymore applications.
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.
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
- 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
233A Main Street, Selkirk, MB R1A 1S1
Phone: 204-485-5139 / Email: [email protected]
Questions or Comments?
Contact the Camp Stepping Stones team by email at [email protected] or by phone at 1.855.494.7369
