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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Saturday, May 25, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM CST
    Registration Desk Open
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
    ACLP Updates Meeting
  • 9:15 AM – 10:45 AM CST
    Charting Champions: A Peer-to-Peer Coaching Program to Elevate Charting Standards
  • 9:15 AM – 10:45 AM CST
    Creating a Culture of Care: Implementing Trauma Informed Care into Your Practice
  • 9:15 AM – 10:45 AM CST
    Safety First: Child Life’s Role in Building a Unit Wide System to Support Behavioral Safety Patients
  • 9:15 AM – 10:45 AM CST
    Tension Between the Two: Navigating ethical responsibility and duty to provide care amidst an increasingly violent healthcare landscape
  • 9:15 AM – 10:45 AM CST
    The Power of the Spotlight: Utilizing interventions from the performing arts
  • 9:15 AM – 10:45 AM CST
    What’s Next? Embracing Growth and Change as a Middle Professional
  • 9:15 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    University Children's Health Tour (Pre-Registration Required)
  • 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM CST
    AM Break
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    Dynamic Dyad: Utilizing Music Therapy in the Pediatric Emergency Department
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    Meaningful workplace connections: Why investment in a connected culture is crucial in the child life profession.
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    Nevertheless, They Persisted: Analyzing Resilience Among Chronically Ill Pediatric Patients
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    Research Rapid Review: This Year's Evidence on Child Life Practice
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    The Ins and Outs of Providing Emotionally Safe Care to Behavioral Health Patients
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    The Road to Recovery: Identifying Challenges within an Inpatient Eating Disorder Protocol and Implementing Change
  • 12:15 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Lunch in the Exhibit Hall
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CST
    Poster Presentations Session 2
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CST
    The Starting Line: How We Took Off Participating in the Data Center
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CST
    Paws for Reflection: Exploring Education and Training Pathways of Certified Child Life Specialist Facility Dog Handlers in Pediatric Healthcare
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CST
    Affinity Group Gathering: Member of Color (open to all attendees of color)
  • 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Affinity Group Gathering: Community-Based Programs
  • 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Affinity Groups
  • 1:05 PM – 1:30 PM CST
    Challenges of Transitioning Back to School from Hospitalization: The Role of Child Life Specialists in Schools
  • 1:05 PM – 1:30 PM CST
    Maternal Experience of Family-Centered Care and Parenting their Children with Down syndrome and Congenital Heart Defect.
  • 1:05 PM – 1:30 PM CST
    Therapeutic Uses of Stuffed Animals in the Hospital
  • 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM CST
    An Outreach Partnership Between Child Life and Radiology to Reduce Sedation, Increase Safety, and Improve Patient Experience
  • 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM CST
    Becoming Competency (not Setting) Centric: Strategies for Supporting Sustainability and Growth Across Academic and Clinical Settings
  • 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM CST
    Integrating and Facilitating Family Sessions in Multiple Clinical Environments
  • 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM CST
    When Love Meets Loss: Early Child Life Partnership in Adverse Fetal Diagnoses
  • 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM CST
    Where Are All the Leaders: Succession Planning in Child Life
  • 2:15 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Wonders & Worries and Children's Bereavement Center Tour (Pre-Registration Required)
  • 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM CST
    PM Break
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Bearing the Unseen Burden: Ambiguous Loss in Teens Living with Chronic Illness
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Finding Your Voice: Strategies for Effective Communication in Child Life Practice
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Tech-Enhanced Child Life: Balancing Human Connection and Professional Fulfillment
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    What’s Next? Embracing Growth and Change as a Seasoned Professional