This month, we opened the floor to the questions we hear most often from our community, the ones that come up again and again in messages, comments, and one-on-one calls. Annie Gunning, Hope for HIE’s Child Life Specialist and Grief Counselor, spent 20+ years working in a hospital child life department before bringing that same expertise into her role with […]
Simple Summer Activities That Support Emotional Expression, Coping, and Connection Summer doesn’t have to only include structured therapy or carefully planned interventions to be healing. Sometimes, the most powerful coping tool available to your child is already in their backyard — a bucket of water, a box of sidewalk chalk, or a pile of blocks. In this month’s Child Life […]
Many children in the HIE community undergo surgical procedures — sometimes several over the course of their lives. And yet, for most families, anesthesia can feel overwhelming or like a mystery. What exactly happens before, during, and after surgery? Who is on the team? And how do you prepare a child with HIE for what’s coming? In our recently streamed […]
Every April 20th, we come together as a community to honor and remember the children lost to HIE too soon and the families who carry them forward every day. In our recent Child Life Q&A we sat down with Annie Gunning, Certified Child Life Specialist and Grief Counselor, for a conversation centered around remembrance — and the grief that lives […]
March is Child Life Month, and we celebrated by sitting down with Hope for HIE’s Certified Child Life Specialist and Grief Counselor, Annie Gunning, for a Child Life Q&A. Annie answered some of the most common questions families have about child life support — both inside the hospital and right here at Hope for HIE. Missed the live Q&A? No […]
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