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Atlantic Health System
Bank Street College of Education610 West 112th Street
New York, NY 10025
212-875-4400
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Category: Academic Program
Bankstreet College offers a fully-online master's degree with programs leading to certification and an advanced track for working CCLS. Students learn developmentally meaningful ways of working with children and families in healthcare and community settings. The combination of theory and practice serves as an excellent foundation for child life specialists who work with children, youth, and families.
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Bellevue Hospital Center
Blythedale Children's Hospital
The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center
Children's Hospital at Montefiore3415 Bainbridge Ave. CHAM 5
Bronx NY 10467
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Category: Children's Hospital
The Phoebe H. Stein Child Life Program at CHAM recognizes the unique emotional and developmental needs of children and their families throughout their healthcare experience. The role of the Child Life Program is to help children successfully cope with illness, injury and treatment so that they may continue to live normal lives during their healthcare experience.
A stay in the hospital can be an especially challenging time for children and their families. In addition to the initial distress of illness and injury, unfamiliar faces, sounds, smells and surroundings may leave children feeling anxious, isolated and uncomfortable.
Child life specialists are professionals trained at a bachelor's or master's level that can be certified by the National Child Life Council to help patients, ranging from newborns to young adults, and their families minimize stress and trauma during medical events. Our program:
- Creates a comfortable and familiar hospital environment for children and families.
- Educates children and their families on illnesses, injuries, medical equipment and treatment.
- Prepares children and their families for tests, procedures and surgeries.
- Addresses common fears and misunderstandings and provides emotional support.
- Supplies children with age-appropriate recreational activities in the playroom and at bedsides.
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Cohen Children's Medical Center - Northwell Health269-01 76th Ave.
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
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Category: Children's Hospital
Our child life specialists are here for every child. Core activities include developmentally appropriate play, medical play and preparation, procedural support, art and music therapy, and a resource center. We also maintain a full agenda of special events for our young patients, including pet therapy, movies, arts and crafts, a hospital patient art gallery and a horticulture program.
With developmentally appropriate guidance of certified child life specialists, children are provided with various activities to help them learn about their illness, injury, medical/surgical procedures, hospital routines, and the medical team they will encounter during their stay. Children are given the opportunity to explore medical equipment, photo preparation books, and teaching dolls to help relieve any fears and concerns they may have. The child life staff members are available to provide comfort, support and accompany children during medical procedures and exams.
Our professionals are trained in child development and in the specific issues of the medically ill child. They provide emotional support and a variety of play experiences to decrease fear and enhance understanding for pediatric patients. We recognize that children rely on their families for support, thus, parents, siblings and extended family members are also provided services for education and successful coping.
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Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center300 Corporate Blvd. South
Yonkers, NY 10701
914-294-6300
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Category: Pediatric Long-Term Care/Rehab Facility
The Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center is a not-for-profit, pediatric specialty care facility, serving the most medically complex children in New York State.
Our services include, but are not limited to: medical care, nursing, respiratory therapy, palliative care, pastoral care, social work services, physical, occupational, speech and feeding therapies, music therapy, art therapy, therapeutic recreation, nutrition services, aquatic therapy and Child Life.
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Good Samaritan Hospital Medical CenterPediatrics, 2 North
1000 Montauk Highway
West Islip, NY 11795
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Category: Pediatrics within an Adult Hospital
When children are in the hospital, they may become anxious about unfamiliar surroundings or unexpected events. The Child Life Program helps children and families cope with a hospital experience.
Designed for inpatients and outpatients, child life aims to minimize the stress often associated with illness or injury, to enhance normal patterns of living, and to promote the child’s optimum growth and development. Specially trained and certified child life specialists participate on the hospital’s multidisciplinary health care team. They help children learn about the hospital, provide therapeutic play and help support children through medical procedures and difficult times.
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Harlem Hospital Center
506 Lenox Ave.
Rm 16-137
New York, NY 10037
Category: Pediatric Services within Adult Hospital
The Child Life Program serves pediatric patients within a city adult hospital. We offer services to Pediatric Inpatient Unit, Pediatric ICU, Emergency Department, and on-call services to Burn Unit, and NICU.
506 Lenox Ave.
Rm 16-137
New York, NY 10037
Category: Pediatric Services within Adult Hospital
The Child Life Program serves pediatric patients within a city adult hospital. We offer services to Pediatric Inpatient Unit, Pediatric ICU, Emergency Department, and on-call services to Burn Unit, and NICU.
Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone Medical Center
Hospital for Special Surgery535 East 70th Street
New York, NY 10021
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Category: Children's Pavilion within a Hospital
The Child Life Program at Hospital for Special Surgery has a unique mandate to foster and facilitate an environment that is more child/family friendly and less institutional. It is more than décor; it’s about creating an atmosphere that balances medical need with a comforting, supportive setting that children and their families will respond to in a positive manner.
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Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Sinai1184 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
212-241-9500
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Category: Children's Hospital within Adult Hospital/Health System
Child Life & Creative Arts Therapy at Kravis Children's Hospital helps young patients cope with their fears and anxieties by offering therapeutic activities tailored to meet their social, emotional, and educational needs. We offer familiar experiences such as play, art, school, and socializing with peers to help young patients understand and cope more effectively with the often-overwhelming world of the hospital.
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Jamaica Hospital Medical Center8900 Van Wyck Expressway
Jamaica, NY 11418
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Category: Pediatrics Within Adult Hospital
The Child Life staff is part of the family-centered team on Jamaica Hospital’s Pediatric Unit. It is their goal to make hospitalization a less stressful experience for pediatric patients and their families by providing psychosocial and emotional support.
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Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center
Komansky Center for Children’s Health
Maimonides Infants & Children's Hospital of Brooklyn4802 Tenth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11219
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Category: Children’s Hospital within Adult Medical Center
The Child Life, Creative Arts & Education Program is run by expert Child Life specialists. Our staff encourages positive coping strategies in children and their families by offering education and preparation for medical procedures, as well as emotional support as children encounter the wide range of illness-related experiences that may occur in the hospital.
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Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center 
Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian3959 Broadway 5 Tower
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Category: Children's Hospital
Your child's needs in the hospital are similar to those at home: He or she needs to feel secure, comforted, and able to understand what is going on. These needs are often magnified by the stress of illness and hospitalization. The Child Life program at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital provides emotional and psychosocial care to help make the hospital experience as manageable as possible for children and their family members. The Child Life staff includes accredited professionals who apply their child development expertise to help your child understand, cope with, and master his or her medical experiences.
Child life specialists can be found in many areas of our hospital. They recognize and address your child's reactions to the stresses of illness and medical procedures. They assess each child's and family's individual psychosocial needs and provide appropriate interventions. These interventions include, but are not limited to, preparations for tests and procedures, coping strategies, and diversions during procedures, as well as play activities to help normalize the environment.
Activities, such as playing with toys, arts and crafts, video games and computers, can take place either at your child's bedside or in our Child Life Centers, which are located on the Tower 4, 5, and 6 units. There is also a family lounge on each patient floor where you can use the computer to access the Internet, use a microwave to heat food, or just relax.
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NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital506 6th Street
Brooklyn NY 11215
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Category: Pediatrics within adult hospital
The Child Life Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital provides emotional and psycho-social support to children and families that promotes coping with visits to the emergency room, inpatient hospitalization and illness.
North Shore University Hospital
Orange Regional Medical Center
707 East Main Street
Middletown NY 10940
Category: Pediatrics within an Adult hospital
At Orange Regional Medical Center, we are a developing pediatric program within an adult hospital. We have a separate Children's Emergency Department run by pediatricians as well as a 24/7 Pediatric Hospitalist Program for our pediatric unit.
707 East Main Street
Middletown NY 10940
Category: Pediatrics within an Adult hospital
At Orange Regional Medical Center, we are a developing pediatric program within an adult hospital. We have a separate Children's Emergency Department run by pediatricians as well as a 24/7 Pediatric Hospitalist Program for our pediatric unit.
Practical Parenting Solutions
River Edge, NJ
Website | The Creative Classroom
Category: Private Practice/Consulting
Practical Parenting Solutions offers child life services to those in the community. I work with individual children and families in their home or online as well as offer education, training, and child life services to school, non-profits and businesses.
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River Edge, NJ
Website | The Creative Classroom
Category: Private Practice/Consulting
Practical Parenting Solutions offers child life services to those in the community. I work with individual children and families in their home or online as well as offer education, training, and child life services to school, non-profits and businesses.
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Stony Brook Children's Hospital101 Nicolls Road
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8504
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Category: Children's Hospital
The Child Life Services Department at Stony Brook Children’s is an integral part of the hospital experience for children. The Department’s expert and caring team members help children become more comfortable during their visit by addressing fears, clearing up common misconceptions about medical procedures and hospitalization, preparing the child appropriately, and in promoting a sense of mastery over the hospital experience in the child.
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SUNY Downstate
445 Lenox Rd.
Brooklyn, NY 11203
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Category: Children's Hospital within a hospital
445 Lenox Rd.
Brooklyn, NY 11203
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Category: Children's Hospital within a hospital
Winthrop University Hospital259 First Street
Mineola, NY 11501
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Category: Children's Hospital within an Adult Hospital
Hospitalization can be scary for anyone. For children, it can be a particularly frightening experience. At NYU Winthrop Hospital, we created our Child Life Program specifically to ease the fear and anxiety of children who are hospitalized and their families by addressing their unique emotional and development needs during this challenging time. The Program’s child life specialists are trained in child development and in meeting the special needs of children who are ill and hospitalized. Through play, education and support, the specialists help calm fears, plan fun-filled activities, and take away the stress and loneliness that can be a part of the hospital experience.
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Wykoff Heights Medical Center374 Stockholm Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237
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Category: Pediatrics within an Adult Hospital
Utilizing knowledge of family systems and child development, the child life specialist provides patients and families interventions through therapeutic play, medical education, procedural preparation and distraction, and encourages coping strategies as a means to guide and empower, specific to each child’s developmental background and culture.
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Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital20 York Street SP7-414
New Haven, CT 06510
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Category: Children's Hospital
Child Life at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital helps children cope with the adjustments of being in a hospital by providing a variety of play experiences. These activities help both children and families gain a greater understanding of medical procedures, which helps reduce stress and fear of the unknown. Through play, the child life specialist helps facilitate the emotional and social growth of a child during the crisis of illness.
In collaboration with the Yale New Haven medical staff, a certified child life specialist is available to all children in the hospital and in our clinics to provide:
- Medical play, which helps children learn about various tests, procedures and surgeries and corrects any misconceptions children may have.
- Distraction techniques to minimize the stress during an examination or procedure. These techniques can be as simple as blowing bubbles or having a favorite toy nearby, which make the hospital a little less scary and the procedure a little bit easier.
- Expressive activities that encourage children to share their thoughts and feelings about their hospital experience.
- Developmentally appropriate information and preparation about medical procedures.
- Support for the child and family during medical procedures and examinations.
Art and recreational activities are offered in playrooms, as well as medical play, magic shows and holiday celebrations. Patients of all ages are welcome. If a child cannot come to a playroom because of activity restrictions or isolation precautions, a child life specialist can provide recreational and therapeutic activities at the bedside.
Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, please call 203-688-2334.
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