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Comfort Zone Camp, a nonprofit bereavement camp, has been life-changing for Emily Laber-Warren and her sons after the death of their dad

“They have a place to go where not only can they share their feelings,” the journalist tells PEOPLE, “but they can hear other kids, and they can support other kids through their grieving journey”

The camp was featured by PEOPLE in 2001 and has served over 25,000 children to date

After learning their missing dad died by suicide, a New Jersey family found community and healing thanks to a grief camp.

“My boys and I would be living with this heavy, dark absence, this scary, like blob that would just sort of be there in our lives that we didn't know how to manage,” journalism professor Emily Laber-Warren tells PEOPLE.

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