Alliance for Kids

Fellowship:our child life specialist fellowship program provides 1 year of clinical experience for a certified child life specialist, ccls, with Alliance partner hospitals to provide child life services to a new area of the medical facility, currently without child life support. Once documented need and value is established and when the fellowship year is complete, the hospitals retain the ccls as a full time employee.

Bravery bands:on admission, each little patient receives a rainbow silicone band for their wrist. Over the course of their hospital stay, the patient will receive additional bands for each of their major hospital experiences. This program gives children a way to communicate about their hopital experiences. The reward of the band encourages them and helps them cope with the procedure. We provided bravery bands for over 18,500 pediatric hopital patients within 9 hospitals.

Monkey for me:our goal is for every hospitalized child to receive a monkey upon admission. We provided this program to 10 pediatric hospitals and their patients this year.every child will receive a monkey for me bag with their very own...-ultra soft monkey to stuff -a t-shirt for the monkey-a birth certificate and a heart-a welcome book with information for both the patient and their family-crayons