Child Life Specialists

Comfort and Support for Your Child

Our Child Life Specialists help navigate and minimize the emotional and physical stress of your child's hospital stay. Some of the ways our specialists help our pediatric patients cope with the hospital experience include:

• Teaching skills to cope with fear, anxiety, separation and adjustment to the hospital
• Providing developmentally-appropriate play through a child-friendly playroom, teen area, and bedside activities
• Encouraging expression through play, art, music, and directed medical play
• Educating and preparing patients for diagnosis, treatment, and procedures at appropriate developmental level
• Acting as liaison within the healthcare team on to developmental and psychological issues
• Offering families support and addressing sibling concerns, in addition to identifying helpful resources in the community
• Providing tutoring for extended stay patients, through a city referral system
• Hosting age-appropriate community entertainment for patients and their families

Contact us to arrange a consultation with one of our Child Life specialists at 358-1529.