BRASS Camp

When a sister or brother is diagnosed with cancer, siblings’ lives are changed forever. Sometimes feeling guilty, invisible, or ignored, healthy siblings experience the same upheaval as their parents. But as children, they may have less capacity to cope. Our BRASS (BRothers And SiSters) Camp offers activities like campfires, canoeing, and sports, along with camaraderie and peer empathy — an open dialog among campers and counselors to ensure siblings going through the cancer experience are enveloped in the same support system as their parents and their sick brothers or sisters. BRASS Camp meets at Camp Maria in Leonardtown, MD, a traditional camp facility that sits on the beautiful Breton Bay, and is open to 7-16 year-old cancer siblings who are bereaved or have a sibling who is within 3 years of their last cancer-specific treatment..

BRASS Weekend

Just as the week-long BRASS Camp offers campers a week-long respite from their sibling’s cancer struggle, BRASS Weekend gives 7-16 year-old brothers and sisters a short vacation at the Northern Virginia 4-H Center in Front Royal where they have a chance to renew past camp friendships and make new ones!