The Bob and Merle Scolnik Healing Center
Find support in your grief, wherever you are in your journey.
Supporting children and adults through their loss and grief.
Our Scolnik Healing Center provides a healing environment with kindness, compassion, understanding, and guidance for adults and children who are grieving the loss of someone or something important to them. We recognize everyone grieves differently, so we offer several ways we can provide support. For example, some individuals prefer to talk with a volunteer or counselor by phone. Others find the greatest help comes from individual counseling sessions. We also schedule group gatherings for those who gravitate to the healing that comes from sharing their thoughts with others who have experienced a similar loss.
Our counselors will meet with individuals at the Scolnik Healing Center in Muskegon or in a person’s home if they prefer. We also have helpful take-home reading materials for people who are most comfortable working on their grief alone.
Camp Courage
Children from six to fourteen years old, who are struggling with the loss of someone they were close to, are invited to come to Camp Courage held each year in June. For three days and two nights at Pioneer Trails Camp on Big Blue Lake, the children enjoy swimming, games, and campfires, along with activities like story time and working side-by-side on craft projects. In the company of trained counselors and volunteers, the activities prompt meaningful conversations and help campers begin to understand their often complicated feelings and questions around the death of someone they loved so much.
Camp Courage is open to any referred child in our five-county service region. The cost is the $10 application fee, made possible by the support of the Harbor Hospice Foundation.
