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ABOUT US
Our Story
The Wellness Farm began in 2023, but its roots reach far beyond the past year. Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Camille Hawkins, is a serial philanthropic entrepreneur and saw a need in our community for a safe space where individuals and families could spend time in nature healing their broken hearts from the grief and trauma life brings. Camille and her husband Palmer founded The Wellness Farm on the fifth birthday of their daughter Everly Camille, who died at birth. Camille was already working in the field of grief and trauma support, but her experience of losing their daughter after a decade of infertility pushed her to further explore a variety of mourning and healing practices.
Our Founders Story
In addition to being an effective therapist helping hundreds of clients heal and find balance in their lives, Camille is also a passionate leader with extensive experience serving the community through nonprofit organizations and provides consulting and mentoring to other nonprofit founders.
Camille was also the founder and first Executive Director of the successful nonprofit, Utah Infertility Resource Center, served for several years on the Utah Adoption Council, and also served on the Board of Directors for Postpartum Support International – Utah. She has also spent significant time volunteering for The Sharing Place and Share Parents of Utah, local grief support organizations. She credits her powerful social work internship experiences at McKay Dee Hospital on the OB and NICU floors and The Family Support Center for helping her to establish the foundation of her career in nonprofit work, medical social work, and gaining an understanding of grief, trauma, and attachment/relationship models.
For her work in community-building and organization, she was recognized by Utah Business Magazine as a 20 in Their 20’s honoree and given the Early Career Community Award by Utah State’s Women & Gender Studies Department. She was also recognized in 2023 as a Top 10 Recipient of the Real Salt Lake Major League Soccer and America First Credit Union Small Business Showcase.
Camille is known for developing and facilitating effective programs, courses, events, trainings, research projects, and is currently a teacher for The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, & Death where she teaches Holding Space for Pregnancy & Infant Loss to other providers around the globe. She builds safe spaces for clients and providers to come together for learning, healing, and transformation. Clients and colleagues describe Camille as being gentle, compassionate, thoughtful and driven. CamiIle enjoys being in nature, traveling, exploring yummy food, taking hot baths & long naps, and spending time with her family and the farm animals.
Who we are
Learn More AboutOur Story and the Wellness Farm
The Wellness Farm Foundation’s mission is to provide support for grief and trauma and to build resiliency in our community
We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization located on 2.5 acres in Bluffdale, Utah offering grief and trauma therapy, support groups, retreats, animal and nature therapy, classes and workshops, community outreach, volunteer opportunities and more. Contact us at hello@wellnessfarmut.org to inquire about our services.
- Grief and trauma have significant negative impacts on our community
- Utilizing a whole health model for treatment and prevention provides the most effective and impactful results
- Connection is essential to healing & lifelong wellness
The price tag for unresolved grief amounts to billions of dollars each year in lost productivity, lower job performance, and health implications of destructive coping (Ayers et al., 2004).
The “hidden annual cost of grief in the workplace” related to grief after a loved one’s death is estimated at $37.4 billion (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization).
Fox, Cacciatore, and Lacasse (2014) found the cost of child death is $3 billion dollars annually, and with little or no community support grievers fall into a “downward spiral of destructive coping behaviors” (Kissane, 2000, p. 46) including substance use (Cacciatore et al, 2014).
Just the cost of substance abuse treatment alone in 2021 was $740 billion (National Institute for Drug Abuse, 2022), or about $37,000 per person just for direct treatment, with about a 50% relapse rate.
We are modeling our program after the Selah Carefarm in Sedona, which has had tremendous success helping grieving people, including leading them toward more sustainable and healthier lifestyles (Gorman & Cacciatore, in press; Cacciatore & Gorman, 2020; Gorman & Cacciatore, 2016).
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Our Founding Donors
Our Founding Donors include families who want to remember and honor their loved ones or organizations who want to make a difference in the community. These initial donations provide the critical foundational funding in order for The Wellness Farm to form as a grassroots organization on a 2.5-acre property in Salt Lake County. Please contact us at hello@wellnessfarmut.org if you’re interested in becoming one of our Founding Donors
In Memory of Kurt Brad Kupfer 1981-2004 by Brad, Brittany, and Jordan Kupfer
In Memory of Daniel Raymond Kupfer, 1985-2010, by Brad, Brittany, and Jordan Kupfer
In Memory of Juanita Eddy (1923-2019) & Paul Taggart, (1917- 2003), by Cheryl and Mark Lewis
