Support the Child Life Department at the Stollery Children's HospitalStollery Children's Hospital Foundation

"Support the Child Life Department"
The objective of the Child Life Department is to provide and maintain a consistent program for youth in the hospital. Child Life Specialists are experts in child development; they promote effective coping through play, preparation, education and self-expression activities with the goal of normalizing and lessening the trauma of hospitalization. Skilled Child Life Specialists often service specialty areas like the emergency department, surgical and intensive care units, and inpatient and outpatient units. The Child Life Department recognizes the importance of acknowledging the child and the family through all stages of hospitalization and illness. By adding special family and play rooms, introducing activities like movie nights and craft time, opening a teen room for peer interaction, providing electronics and games, supplying bereavement support, and much more, the Child Life Department helps patients and families cope.