When your child needs medical care, you shouldn’t have to figure it out alone.

You love your child fiercely. You just need someone to show you how to help them.

That’s exactly what child life specialists are trained to do — and what this community is built around. Whether your child is facing a routine procedure, a new diagnosis, a surgery, or a long hospitalization, you don’t have to guess your way through it. Learn more about what child life specialists do here.

Hi, I’m Katie

I became a child life specialist because I believed every family deserved support during their child’s medical experiences. After a decade of seeing more and more families fall through the cracks without child life services, I started to build Child Life On Call. First as a podcast, then as an app, and now as a platform.

So I built Child Life On Call to scale what one CCLS could never do alone. Today that mission lives in a podcast with hundreds of thousands of downloads, a professional community for child life specialists, and a platform now reaching families through AngelEye Health.

I consult with healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and institutions building more family-centered experiences. I also speak at conferences, grand rounds, and leadership events on psychosocial care, family-centered practice, and scaling child life impact.