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Who benefits from the Virtual Toy Drive?
All areas of the Children's Hospital benefit from donations made to the Virtual Toy Drive. Listed below are just a handful...
Bereavement
BI-LO Charities Children's Cancer Center
Bryan Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Chaplaincy
Child Life
Children's Hospital School
Family Support
Girls On The Run Program
Kidnetics
Neurodiagnostics
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Safe Kids Upstate
Social Work
Wonder Center
For more information on the above mentioned programs please visit www.ghs.org.
Child Life Program
For those who have used the services at Children's Hospital, you may already understand the importance of Child Life specialists. These highly trained individuals ease the stress and anxiety that children often experience in hospital and healthcare settings. Child Life specialists use many of the items you see listed in
the Virtual Toy Drive for therapy, stress reduction, and education when helping children.
Beth Ball, director of the Child Life Program, notes that Child Life specialists reduce children's fears by explaining medical procedures. They also help children cope with a procedure and the hospital environment by providing activities designed for those purposes. Such goal-focused intervention aids children in understanding what is happening to them and getting through an event that is scary or painful. When children can master a medical experience, they leave with their self-esteem intact and the knowledge that they can trust the people who help take care of them. How children feel after the medical experience shapes their image and feelings about health care as they grow up. We want children to have a positive experience and not dread seeking medical assistance.
The profession's tools of the trade include everything from scented facemasks and bubbles to explanations about an upcoming procedure that a child can understand. During "medical play," a Child Life specialist might help a child give an IV to a puppet to show how the straw-like tube delivers medicine to the body. In an operating room, she might show a patient how changing his breathing can make numbers and lines fluctuate on a bedside monitor.
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