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  • Saturday, May 24, 2025
  • 6:30 AM – 7:00 AM Pacific
    Coffee Break
  • 6:30 AM – 4:30 PM Pacific
    Registration Desk Open
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Pacific
    AO: Plank Talks Sponsored
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific
    (ALTERNATE) Resilience over Balance: Professional Sustainability for the Modern Child Life Specialist
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific
    Child Life Private Practice: Perspectives from an Early Practice To A Seasoned Practitioner.
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific
    I Can See Clearly Now: Inclusive practices, adaptations and resource enhancements for patients, staff, and interns with Visual Impairments.
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific
    It’s the Journey: A Road Trip through the Leadership Experience
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific
    Strategies for Effective Feedback and Assessment with Child Life Interns
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific
    What about us? Bridging the gap between culture and play - a cultural competency journey from Aotearoa, NZ to Sāmoa.
  • 9:15 AM – 11:30 AM Pacific
    Tour of UCLA Mattel Childrens Hospital Play Zone
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific
    Energize & Engage Break in the Exhibit Hall
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM Pacific
    AI in Child Life: Leveraging AI for Enhanced Care and Support
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM Pacific
    Navigating Loss Together: Facilitating Grief Support Groups within School Communities
  • 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Pacific
    Child life and the Most Vulnerable Tiny Humans: Exploring program development and implementation of support for fetal care families
  • 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Pacific
    Doing Tough Things the Right Way: Adapting Child Life Principles to Support Behavioural Patients
  • 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Pacific
    Implementing a Trauma Informed Care Program to Reduce Pediatric Needle Pain and Anxiety: Strategies for Hospital-Wide Adoption and Staff Education
  • 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM Pacific
    Joy for the Work of Caregiving: Innovative Coping Techniques for Healthcare Teams
  • 11:45 AM – 2:00 PM Pacific
    Lunch in the Exhibit Hall
  • 12:29 PM – 1:45 PM Pacific
    Live Poster Presentation Sessions
  • 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Pacific
    20 years of play memoirs from the archives of a National Children's Hospital
  • 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Pacific
    Medical Education Information Retention at a Summer Camp for Youth with Sickle Cell Disease: A Program Evaluation
  • 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Pacific
    Nurse Experiences Caring for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Intensive Care Unit and Implications for Child Life Specialists
  • 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Pacific
    Reality Check - Using Virtual Reality Social Support for Adolescents Living with Serious Illness
  • 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM Pacific
    Child Life Interventions: Caring For the Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Population in the Outpatient Setting
  • 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM Pacific
    Speaking The(ir) Language: Assessing the Psychosocial Needs of Teens Through Grief and Loss
  • 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM Pacific
    Trauma-Informed Care in Child Life Practice
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Pacific
    “My Nurses Would Never Do That”: Shifting ICU Culture With a Focus on Family-Centered Care
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Pacific
    Celebrate Good Times, Come On! Enriching the Hospital Experience Through Special Event Programming
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Pacific
    Driving Early Child Development Home Through Everyday Healthcare Moments
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Pacific
    Honoring the Professional and Personal Impact: An Overview of Interdisciplinary Bereavement Focus Groups
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Pacific
    Research Rapid Review
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Pacific
    Stronger Together!: How Child Life and School Teams Come Together to Educate and Ease Anxieties in Pediatric Oncology Patients
  • 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific
    Afternoon Break
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Pacific
    A Multidisciplinary Approach to Neurodevelopmental Care through Music and Movement
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Pacific
    Building Stronger Foundations: How and Why to Implement an Institution-Based Mentorship Program
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Pacific
    Grief In the Shadows: Supporting Children and Families experiencing Disenfranchised Grief and Ambiguous Loss
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Pacific
    Internship Excellence for All Clinical Programs: Steps and Strategies
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Pacific
    Intervention Extravaganza! Family Burn Camp and Beyond
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Pacific
    Normalizing the Pivot: Supporting One Another on the Child Life Journey