Child Life Specialists: We want to support you as well as you support patients and families.
SupportSpot
It‘s more than just an app.
The app may be a child life team’s favorite tool, but our services are more than just technology.
Child Life Circle
An online community for CCLS who get access to 2 PDUs a month, virtual clinical supervision and so much more.
Podcast
Listen to the parent perspective of healthcare & give parents a resource to help them feel less isolated.
Data-driven Insights to Bring To Your Next Meeting with Hospital Leadership
By investing in child life specialists, hospitals can improve both patient outcomes and their bottom line.
Don’t miss out on this valuable resource – download our KPI document today.
The Child Life On Call App
Every family deserves access to a child life specialist.
But you’re only one person, and you’re not on call 24/7.
And when you are at work? You’re running yourself ragged, juggling patient care, administrative tasks, meetings, and more.
All in limited time, with limited resources, and a limited budget.
If only there was a way to support all the children and families who walk through your facility’s doors.
Finally the help you need is here—and it fits in the palm of your hand.
The Child Life On Call App:
Support that goes beyond the bedside.
With features for children, parents, and health heroes, Child Life On Call empowers users from pre-admission to post-discharge.
For Parents
For Kids
For Child Life Specialists and Health Heroes
✓ Self-care tools to help manage stress
✓ Glossary of basic medical terms, written in easy-to-understand language
✓ 50+ descriptions of procedures, complete with photos, insights and suggestions to help them advocate for their child
✓ Printables and downloads for 100+ health and child related topics, easily searchable by keyword
✓ Pictures of the facility and care team
✓ Personal journal with prompts to help guide the conversation with the care team
✓ Glossary of basic medical terms, written in child-friendly language
✓ 50+ descriptions of procedures, complete with photos
✓ Sibling specific resources Pictures of the facility and care team
✓ Customizable and shareable coping plans
✓ A virtual playroom with games to help pass the time and provide distraction during procedures
✓ Ability for child life specialists to add their own resources, terms, and procedures
✓ Access to Child Life On Call’s PDU (Professional Development Units) at 50% off (an average of $5 per PDU)
✓ When you contract with Child Life On Call, families get free access even after discharge.
Katie Taylor, CEO and Founder of Child Life On
Call and Certified Child Life Specialist.
Created for Child Life Specialists-by Child Life Specialists.
- How you feel pulled in a million directions, all of them away from your patients
- How you lack time and resources to do your work well
- How guilt creeps in when you think of all the patients you aren’t able to see or help
I know, because I’ve been there.
In my 12 years as a child life specialist I found myself wishing for something, anything, to help alleviate these tensions.
And when I couldn’t find it, I decided to create it.
It is possible to support more families with a high level of care, within the confines of your shift, without sacrificing your own well-being.
Let me show you how, with the Child Life On Call app.
What They’re Saying
Sam Krawiec, CCLS
Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital
Making it easier to do your job well.
The Child Life On Call App is:
Comprehensive
Our robust library of evidence-based, trauma-informed resources boasts over 50 procedures, an extensive glossary, and 100+ handouts on a variety of health and child-related topics.
Customizable
Every facility is unique, so your experience with our app should be too. With Child Life On Call, you can add your own site-specific materials, plus pictures of your facility and staff, all with a few taps of your screen.
Convenient
Child Life On Call puts everything you need in the palm of your hand. Instead of rushing off to make extra copies, or darting out to grab your folder of printables, you can share resources with patients and families directly through the app, without leaving their side.
Compliant
We are HIPAA-compliant, and we don’t store health information. Plus the app gives everyone in your facility a shared language, which helps them better meet the Joint Commission’s requirements for providing mandated developmental considerations of care.
Credible
All content is created and verified by a group of child life specialists, and our work is overseen by a highly credentialed board of advisors.
– Daquan Stephenson, CCLS II, Inova Children’s Hospital
Bring Child Life On Call to Your Facility.
Here’s how:
Common Questions
Does the app store health information?
Does this app replace the need for Child Life Specialists?
Who is in charge of the content in the app?
How do I bring Child Life On Call to my facility?
Can I add my own resources and procedures to the app?
Is this going to make more work for me or my colleagues?
Not at all! Child Life On Call consolidates resources and streamlines routine tasks so you can spend more time doing what matters—connecting with and deepening your relationship with patients and their families. Our app empowers all staff members to better support children and families facing a medical diagnosis or procedure.
“Child Life On Call provides immediate resources for families, easy rapport building through the playroom, and the ability to airdrop coping plans.”
-Certified Child Life Specialist
Earn PDU’s from your phone.
Our virtual courses can be purchased individually or in bundles, and cover intervention, assessment, ethics, and professional responsibility.
Plus, get 50% off your course costs when your facility contracts to use the Child Life On Call app.
