Child Life Services
at Hasbro Children's Hospital

Providing pediatric patients and their families with a sense of normalcy during hospitalization.

When the normal pattern of a child or adolescent's day is interrupted due to hospitalization, it is important for a patient and his family to know that someone will respond to their psychosocial, developmental, and educational needs. Hasbro Children's Hospital offers a child life program that responds to those needs.

Goals

• To provide pediatric patients and their families with a sense of normalcy and helps them respond to their hospital experience in a positive way.
  
  
• To offer children and adolescents choices about things they would like to do by planning activities and educational experiences which enable them to make decisions, concentrate on play, enhance their natural creativity and master new skills.
  
  
• To help children and adolescents maintain a sense of independence, self esteem, and control.

Our Staff

The members of the child life staff are certified professionals who are prepared at the bachelors and masters levels in child life, child development, early childhood education, and other related fields. More about our staff

Child life services includes the child life program and the hospital school, which collaborate with one another to better serve patients' needs. The Healing Arts Program also plays a crucial role in child life, including Art for Life's Art While You Wait Program, which provides a variety of art and crafts materials and guided projects for patients and their siblings waiting for treatment in the Emergency Department. More about Art for Life

Contact Us

For more information on child life or the school, please call child life services at 401-444-8278.

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