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UPDATE: Bahamas Deployment Confirmed

ATTENTION ALL CERTIFIED CHILD LIFE SPECIALISTS:   This deployment is now confirmed.  If you are an experienced Certified Child Life Specialists ready and willing to work with children affected by Hurricane Dorian, please let us know of your interest.  We are currently reviewing the information submitted.   This deployment requires a minimum of a one-week commitment over […]

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Deployment Availability Needed – Bahamas

ATTENTION ALL CERTIFIED CHILD LIFE SPECIALISTS:   We have a potential opportunity in the Bahamas to send experienced Certified Child Life Specialists to work with children affected by Hurricane Dorian.  Details are still in progress. This would entail a minimum of a one-week deployment over the next one or two months and preference will go towards

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Hurricane Dorian

One member from Child Life Disaster Relief (CLDR) is on her way to North Carolina with our partner Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) for a CDS team deployment in response to Hurricane Dorian.  While there, Susan ‘Boon’ Murray will be working alongside her CDS teammates with the children in evacuation centers.  This storm has already produced

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When a Disaster Hits Close to Home

Hurricane season is here, and as Child Life Disaster Relief, we often write about how to prepare, stay safe, and work with children after a hurricane.  However, we would like to also highlight the perspective of a CCLS within the hospital.  Leslie Dempsey, CCLS, shares her personal encounter of when Hurricane Irma hit Florida in

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Children’s Disaster Services Training in Tampa, FL

ATTENTION CHILD LIFE SPECIALISTS: Have you ever wondered how you can deploy and work with the children that have been affected by the mass shootings, hurricanes, or wild fires? Well here is your opportunity to become involved! Our partner, Children’s Disaster Services (CDS), is offering a training on Friday, October 11th  and Saturday, October 12th

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Serving in an Iowa Flood Assistance Center

From BOON Murray, CCLS Last year, a Children’s Disaster Services team made history facilitating a play center in a cattle barn. While you can never anticipate what your play space might be, CDS volunteers dive right in to setting up with imagination and creativity. I deployed with a team of three other local volunteers on

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How to Talk to Children about Recent Shootings

In light of the recent and unfortunate shootings in the last month, we wanted to share with you a helpful and insightful resource that may assist you when talking to inquiring children about these recent events: “How to Talk to Children of About These Shootings: an age by age guide” by TODAY.com.

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Gilroy, CA Children’s Disaster Services Critical Response

Two members of Child Life Disaster Relief will be deploying today with our partner, Children’s Disaster Services (CDS), for a CDS Critical Response assignment to Gilroy, California. While there, Kristen Cady and Cindy Shapiro will be working together with their CDS teammates in a Family Assistance Center to provide support to the children affected by

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