Parents Need Camp, too

Remember the Courage Youth Camp you helped make possible? The transformation that began there didn’t stop with the young people — it’s spreading through their families.

The Courage Youth children have been so deeply changed by what they’ve learned at camp and through our ongoing programs that their parents began asking for help too — for tools to understand their children, and to heal their own hearts.

Thanks to your support, we were able to say yes.

For the first time ever, we hosted a Courage Youth Parents’ Camp… a weekend to pause, reflect, and begin the slow, necessary work of healing family bonds.

Through sessions like Understanding Self, 5 Dimensions of a Person, and Sex in Perspective, the camp gave parents a voice — many for the first time. They shared pain, asked honest questions, and took courageous steps toward rewriting generational narratives.

Among them was Francina Bopape, mother of Letlhogonolo Bopape. A few days before the camp, she had made a surprise visit to her daughter’s school. What she witnessed stunned her: her once-quiet daughter, weighed down by loss and depression, was confidently participating in a Courage Youth club session. She was smiling — living.

“She had shut down. Wouldn’t open up to anyone,” Francina shared. “But Courage Youth changed that. I saw the relief in her. When I was asked to volunteer as a parent, I didn’t hesitate — why not? Courage Youth has been a pillar for me and my family.”

For Francina, joining the workshop was a way to walk the same path her daughter had begun — the path of healing. Like the walls of Jericho, pain doesn’t fall at once. But through testimony, truth, and connection, the walk has begun.

“If it were up to me,” another parent said, “every household would

have someone in this club.”

Because healing families doesn’t happen by accident. It happens with intention, community, and courage.

And because of you, Courage Youth is leading the way, one story, one family, one generation at a time.