Project Jason - Assistance for Families of the Missing

Give the Keys of Healing Today

The estimate to cover all on-site retreat fees is $18,725. If we achieve our goal of offering the retreat at no cost, any additional donations help pay for instructor, handbooks, printing, candles, photo frames, gift bags, transportation, and other expenses. Retreat fees cover all lodging, meals, drinks, and retreat materials. For attendees flying in, transportation from the Omaha airport to the retreat center is provided.

We also have a wish list of items we need donated. View our wish list and let us know if you are able to help by contacting us at keystohealing@projectjason.org.

What Attendees Have to Say

I have spent the last 5 years with severe depression, feelings of guilt, and long stretches of insomnia. You see, when you have a missing child, spouse, or loved one, you have no answers you feel helpless and all alone. I took myself away from the entire world and I buried myself in a world where no one could touch or reach me, not even myself. I became my own worst enemy. I hated the person(s) responsible for taking my little girl away from me, and I hated the police department for not doing enough. Most of all I hated myself because I wasn't able to search for her financially or mentally.

The Keys to Healing Retreat was like the weight of the earth being lifted off my shoulders. I saw others just like me who had been through the same pain, the same loss and the same fears. I felt as if I had awoken from a very long sleep. I even looked in the mirror for the first time in a very long time and I saw a person who wanted to live...I felt rebirth, a second chance back to live after attending the retreat. I can now communicate with the children where as before I only existed with them when necessary, and then I locked myself away in my room. I ask if you read this please help, look deep into your heart and soul and remember that this too could happen to you or someone you know.”

Elizabeth Rivera, Mother of missing Elsha M. Rivera

“I feel as though the Keys to Healing Retreat made such a major impact on my life and family! Before the retreat I was going down a negative and destructive path. I was devastated by the loss and presumed death of my loved one. Because of the retreat, I have started making better choices, and my husband and I are working on our marriage instead of being determined to end our marriage. I felt so alone and afraid…I felt incapable of dealing with the pain and emotion of losing my loved one. Because of the retreat, I feel like my family is on the road to healing….although I don’t know when, or even if this traumatic event will end…I know that my husband, child, and I will survive and hopefully even thrive.”

Carolyn Johnson, Mother of missing Clinton Nelson

“During the early days of my daughter’s disappearance, I was frantic for something to do, or someone to connect with who could help us. The only resources I was finding were located in Australia! I think I gave up. I was struggling personally, not only with my guilt and fears for my missing child, but also with cancer. The latter two are history, but my missing child is always there. The few people that I could share with were helpless and sometimes cruel, so I just closed up. I had no money for reward or a trip to the state where she disappeared, and I just got angrier and angrier!

Through the experience of the retreat I had to come to terms with that anger and frustration. Yes ‘dumping all this’ may not resolve my daughter's fate but the process certainly was enlightening. I didn’t realize how destructive my silence and anger were. Also, the strength of the other families affected me profoundly. The education at the retreat reinforced what I was experiencing but also provided insight and constructive things I can practice to become a better ‘me’, even a ‘me not knowing what has become of my child’.”

Malinda Hoyt, Mother of missing Emillie Hoyt

You may read additional testimonials from the families we serve to your right and on the Great Nonprofits website and at Project Jason's forum.

Contact Us

Project Jason
P.O Box 3035
Omaha, NE 68103

Phone: 402-932-0095
E-mail: information@projectjason.org

No Family Left Behind

2010 Keys to Healing Retreat Donors

Colleen Nick
Paula Penkal
Diane Sim
Dorothy Nash
David & Carla Lohr
Kathleen Hahn
Diane Schmidt
Casey King
Maxine Porter
Joseph & Elizabeth O'Brien
Robert & Myrna Slattery
Edna Holzman
Mary Addison
Stephanie George
Justice League Unlimited
Holy Name Parish Celebration Choir
Holy Name Humble Jumble Store
Jerry W.
Dawn Harrison
Bonita Pinckney
Vicki & Stephen Loux
John & Lynn Sedlacek
Jennifer Brink
Tracy Engel
The Anderson, Pagel, & Lappegaard Families, in loving memory of Gina Anderson
Vicki Smith
Kathleen Avant
Mary McNally
Shirley Emerson
Alice Dombrow
Rapid City SD Hockey
Gayle H. and Family
Loveli Group from Second Life

Campaign Total

The final No Family Left Behind campaign total is $4898.36. We'd like to thank all of our supporters for playing a very important role in helping the families we serve. The Project Jason board will be meeting soon to determine how best to use the funds to lower pricing for the retreat attendees.

Thank you!!

The Keys to Healing Campaign begins October 6, 2009, the sixth anniversary of the founding of Project Jason. It will end December 31, 2009.

A key will be added to our retreat information and campaign update page every time another $250 (the per-person cost) is raised. Each key represents another family member of a missing person to whom you gave the Keys to Healing. http://www.projectjason.org/retreat.html

If you’d like your name displayed as a donor, let us know at the time of your donation. We will also email you a graphic that you can display on your website or in your email that shows you are supporting the 2010 Keys to Healing Retreat.

To participate, choose the PayPal or the Change.org buttons below to make your donation. Any amount will help! You can also mail a check or money order to:

Project Jason
PO Box 3035
Omaha, NE 68103

Be sure to note “Keys to Healing” on your donation. All donations are tax deductible.

“It’s like the power of one.” --Bill Daniel, 2009 retreat attendee

It is the power of one, one united voice for the missing, all of us working together as one to give these families hope, and a chance to live joyfully again.

Give the Keys to Healing today.

We also have a wish list of items we need donated. View our wish list and let us know if you are able to help by contacting us at keystohealing@projectjason.org.

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