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Child Life On Call LLC

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The place where kids zipline with oxygen tubes (and parents finally exhale)

Inside the Children's Hospital Podcast Hi friends, I know it's February and summer feels far away... but I promise it will be here in a blink, so... I asked Dr. Laura Blaisdell, Chief Medical Officer of SeriousFun Camps, a question I know many of you have wondered: How do you get parents to trust you with their medically complex child for overnight camp? Her answer filled my soul with hope: SeriousFun camps provide top-level medical care quietly tucked "behind pine trees and the horse...

8 months ago • 1 min read

Happy New Year! Whether you found me as a child life student looking for guidance, a parent who downloaded SupportSpot in the middle of the night, a child life specialist searching for resources, or a healthcare provider seeking family-centered tools—you're here because you believe in the power of supporting families inside a children's hospital. Here's what you already know: When a family is facing a pediatric diagnosis, information alone isn't enough. They need to hear from someone who's...

9 months ago • 1 min read

Hey y'all, Katie here :) Happy Thursday almost Friday to almost 900 of you. In this email, we cover: What's been going on in my brain lately about parents who leave the bedside. (It takes about 3 minutes to read in the blog) My upsies and downsies for the week (and why I'm pausing on new episodes of the podcast during July). And, my latest crazy idea... I'd love your feedback. (PLEASE READ!!!) I've been thinking a lot about the realities of parents at the bedside. Not just from the countless...

about 4 years ago • 2 min read