For the seventh straight year, Child Life Council is teaming with The Walt Disney Company through the Disney Hospital Care Package Program. The care packages, sent to facilities with 25 or more pediatric beds, provide comfort and a sense of normalcy for hospitalized children and their families. Hospital child life specialists utilize the care packages to help the children and families in their care.
“Child life specialists strive to ensure life remains as normal as possible for children in the hospital, and one of the primary ways they do this is by providing opportunities for play,” said Dennis Reynolds, CLC Executive Director. “With the help of Disney Care Packages, specialists enhance coping, promote normal development, and instill a sense of fun in young patients, despite often very challenging circumstances.”
The 2011 Disney Care Packages include items from The Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and Disney Stores, including Disney DVDs, sleepwear, blankets, toys and games.
For the first time, this year’s care package also includes membership cards for Club Penguin (clubpenguin.com), Disney’s award-winning virtual world where children can have fun, play games, and interact.
Disney has a long tradition of supporting children’s hospitals around the world. A separate Disney Care Package program in Europe benefits 90 children’s hospitals and children’s hospices.
