Pony Clinic, child life, child mental health
Growing by Leaps and Bounds
Providing Health Care Play for Children and Siblings in a Pediatric Therapy Setting
LLU Abroad, Mexico, child life, counseling and family sciences, global service, teddy bear clinic
Child Life in Mexico: Serving with Joy
In February of this year, Director of Clinical Training for the Child Life Specialist Program, Alisha Saavedra, was part of a Students for International Mission Service (SIMS) trip to Baja, Mexico. One of the locations that the SIMS group visited was Door of Faith Orphanage (DOFO) in La Misión.
child life, child mental health, counseling and family sciences
Child Life facilitates pediatric brain and spine tumor support group
The Pediatric Brain and Spine Tumor Support Group provides emotional support and functions as a bridge between the medical and emotional needs of the patients and their families. The group was initiated by Dr.
LLU Abroad, child life, child mental health, counseling and family sciences, global service
March is Child Life Month!
The Child Life Specialist program has a bunch of exciting activities planned in celebration of Child Life Month!
March 1
The program has been invited to attend Education Hour with the Child Life staff at Loma Linda University Children's Health. Allie's Helping Hands, a program that helps siblings of chronically ill children, will be presenting.
China, LLU Abroad, child life, counseling and family sciences, global service
Child Life in China
Over the summer, the Child Life Specialist MS cohort had the incredible opportunity to travel to China to share the concepts of child life internationally and to interact with patients, families, and professionals from a different culture. Throughout the course of our time in China, we traveled to three different hospitals located in Hangzhou and Quzhou.
China, child life, counseling and family sciences
First student enrolls in Healthcare Experiences Training Program
In Fall 2017, a new educational and training Child Life program was opened to pediatric nurses from the People’s Republic of China. The program was a result of a four-year series of educational exchanges between the Loma Linda University School of Behavioral Health, Child Life Specialist Program, and The Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (ZUCH).