How can you help to make Licensure for California Certified Child Life Specialists a reality?

We need your letters of endorsement to support our efforts!  Whether you are with a California-based agency or support national efforts (for healthcare, mental health, or education, we need your letters of support!!!!

Together, we can protect the children and families we serve while also protecting the title of Child Life Specialist!

Essentials to be included in an endorsement letter:

• As a professional/non-profit/family, you endorse the efforts of licensure for Certified Child Life Specialists in California
• Licensure protects the most vulnerable residents of California - children, adolescents and families effected by illness, hospitalization, injury, palliative care, hospice and grief
• Licensure safeguards the integrity of the Child Life profession
• Licensure underscores California's commitment to its children and their families by increasing their access to emotional and psychosocial support during stressful medical and grief events
• California has the highest number of Certified Child Life Specialists in the country, dedicated to helping children and families navigate difficult medical experiences
• California can set the standard for providing the highest level of care for children and families during their most challenging times
• We strongly believe that there is no better resource to serve children and their families than the skilled Certified Child Life Specialist
• This measure acknowledges the essential role of a Certified Child Life Specialist and ensures the delivery of  quality care by setting professional standards

Sending a huge thank you to Child Life Mommy for supporting our efforts to protect the children and families being served by Certified Child Life Specialists!

Sending a huge thank you to Hearts Connected for supporting our efforts to protect the children and families being served by Certified Child Life Specialists!

Sending a huge thank you to Child Life Connection for supporting our efforts to protect the children and families being served by Certified Child Life Specialists!