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Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - American Widow Project
The American Widow Project lists various events:
- AWP Get-Aways
- Days of Honor
- Tours
- Speaking Engagements
- Conventions
- Other Events
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Camp LifeLine
Camp LifeLine is a summer camp offering military children, who have lost a loved one in service to his/her country, a supportive environment where they can learn how to process their grief.
Led by grief counselors, trained social workers, and volunteers who understand the military environment, children learn how to express their emotions and feelings in a non-threatening way, while forging relationships with each other to build a support system long after they leave the camp.
Through workshops, activities, team building exercises, and reflective moments, children gain an understanding of grief and loss, while learning how to cope with their pain.
The camp provides outdoor recreational activities in group and individual settings with their mentors. While activities vary, they often include ropes courses, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, archery, and more. All activities are supervised and coordinated by camp staff.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Camp Widow (Soaring Spirits Loss Foundation)
Camp Widow is a weekend long gathering of widows from across the country, and around the world. We come together to create a community of people who understand the life altering experience of widowhood. Camp Widow provides practical tools, valuable resources, and peer-based encouragement for rebuilding your life in the aftermath of the death of a spouse.
Camp Widow 2010 will be held at the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina in San Diego, California from August 6-8, 2010.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Comfort Zone Camp
Comfort Zone Camp is a nonprofit bereavement camp that transforms the lives of children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, or primary caregiver. The free camps include confidence building programs and age-based support groups that break the emotional isolation grief often brings. Comfort Zone Camps are offered to children 7-17, and are held year-round in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia. Comfort Zone plans to expand to Texas in 2011.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Disabled Veterans Rest Camp (Washington County, Minnesota)
The Disabled Veterans Rest Camp provides facilities and opportunities for recreation, rest, and well being for all women and men who have served or are serving in the Armed Forces of the United States, along with their families. The campground is open to all military personnel in good standing: Active duty, Reservists/Guard, Veterans, Disabled, Retirees, Families and Friends. Widows of fallen warriors,as long as they are not remarried, are welcome to come and bring their families with them. We ask for a DD214.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Edelweiss Lodge and Resort Survivor Package (Germany)
Save 50% off room rates. The Survivor Support Package is designed to embrace and reassure our Survivors that our nation will always be there for them. The Family and MWR Command is proud to offer discounts at the Armed Forces Recreation Center Resorts honoring Survivors from all services.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Families United USA Gold Star Family Luncheons
Bringing families together to celebrate the lives of their Heroes and gain comfort only offered by those who have known similar loss is one of the most important services Families United provides. We host Gold Star Family Luncheons across the country to allow Gold Star families an opportunity to meet each other, tell stories about their loved ones, and share experiences.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Freedom Hunters - Hunting and fishing
Saluting the noble work of our courageous men and women of the Armed Forces is our mission. For the Gold Star Families that have sacrificed all, we are working on retreats and individual opportunities to remember the brave. Families that know the full price of Freedom hold a special place in our heart.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - House in the Woods, Inc
A free, outdoor self-help program which remains flexible to the needs of those whom we serve. The only expense to participants is their transportation to Lee, Maine. Using the recreational, therapeutic, and educational properties of Maine’s great wilderness and outdoor heritage, we form short-term retreats for participants to meet others with common military-related challenges and experiences. Activities are led by licensed Maine guides and staffed with caring volunteers and assistance from the local VA Center and health professionals from the community upon request. Maine is a four season climate, so activities will be dependent on weather and availability.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Hunters Helping Soldiers
The mission of Hunters Helping Soldiers is to provide a means to enhance physical and emotional healing through comradery during hunting and fishing trips as well as mentorship to help ease the transition from military life to civilian life and help families of returning, wounded, and mortally wounded soldiers cope with the challenges they face.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Knights of Heroes
The Knights of Heroes mission is to provide young men who have lost their fathers in military service the opportunity to experience character building events with the positive support of a male mentor.
Boys are given the opportunity to develop lasting friendships with similarly situated boys from across the country while participating in exciting outdoor activities in Colorado. The four elements of the "knight's code" are instilled through exposure to caring and compassionate men in an outdoor high adventure setting.
Families with boys between the ages of 10 and 17 are invited to attend at absolutely no cost. While the boys are at camp, the moms and daughters spend the week visiting sights in and around Colorado Springs. Lodging and travel arrangements are made for the families that attend from outside the local area.
Activities for the moms and daughters take place throughout the week. The camp was founded on Christian faith, but is not a Bible camp. Boys of all beliefs and from every background are welcome.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Operation Ensuring Christmas
Operation Ensuring Christmas provides financial, moral and rehabilitative support to the Children of Fallen American Troops by providing them Christmas Gift Cards at Christmas and a ‘Christmas in July’, VIP theme park trip to Orlando Florida. This support is to help them recover from the grief and trauma caused by the ultimate sacrifice a child can make for their country...the loss of a parent in war.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Purple Heart Ranch (Sterling City, TX)
Military Warriors Hero Support Foundation
Purple Heart Ranch is open exclusively to combat wounded heroes and to Gold Star families. The ranch is also open to children of combat wounded heroes and those who have a parent currently deployed to a combat zone. Both the families of the wounded heroes and the parents of the children are encouraged to come and enjoy the experience with the hunters. There is fishing available at both properties and many other activities for the families. Both ranches are rich in history and are littered with Native American artifacts, especially arrow heads.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme parks, Events - Snowball Express - (Creating memories for the children of fallen military heroes)
Snowball Express is the charity for the children of our fallen military heroes. We started in 2006 with a simple idea: Provide hope and new memories to the children of our fallen military heroes who died while on active duty since September 11, 2001. Memorials at a cemetery or listening to a long speech are not the kind of memories a child wishes to endure again . Yet that is how we honor our heroes...it is what adults do.
By attending Snowball Express a child can see that "service above self" is honored by others and is a value they should subscribe to as they continue to mature as adults. They also realize they can honor their fallen hero in ways other than by being sad or at a somber place. Snowball Express gives them a piece of their childhood back, allowing them to have fun and that it's OK to laugh.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - TAPS National Military Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp for Young Survivors
(Memorial Day Weekend - May 28-31st, 2010)
You are warmly invited and encouraged to attend the 16th Annual TAPS National Military Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp for Young Survivors. Join us in the nation’s capital as we bring together survivors from across the country and leading professionals in the grief and trauma field, to share a weekend of understanding, hope, courage, and love. An atmosphere of care awaits you in a safe and supportive environment.
Camps, Resorts, Retreats, Theme Parks, Events - Wounded Warriors Family Support
Our mission is to provide support to the families of those who have been wounded, injured or killed during combat operations. The families of our casualties suffer in many ways: some financially, some psychologically.
Wounded Warriors Family Support mitigates their trauma by allowing them to find peace and solace as a family once more in family-friendly resorts that we provide free of charge. The resort condominiums that we own in Orlando, Florida and Galveston, Texas are quiet havens where war torn families can reunite and become stronger.
Tickets - Veteran Tickets Foundation
Our mission is to give without prejudice FREE tickets to dependants of KIA soldiers as well as active military and veterans as a way of saying Thank You! We team up with major sports teams, leagues, promoters, organizations, venues and everyday ticket holders to provide free and discounted tickets to the more than 26 million Veterans and Active Duty Military in the United States.
Vietnam - Operation Gold Star
Under OGS, DQS members will raise the necessary funds and make the necessary arrangements to allow the Gold Star Mothers, that wish to travel to Vietnam, to fulfill their dreams and desires. DQS members (at their own expense) will escort these Gold Star Mothers to Vietnam and to the Area of Operations in which their sons served and where their sons died. Gold Star Mothers have told us how they have longed to travel to Vietnam to see and experience the land that their sons knew and to visit the areas where their sons walked their last steps and took their last breath. They yearn for the peace of mind and closure that has eluded them all these many years.
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Resources for the loved ones of fallen warriors
