05/10/2025
👋 Meet Lisa, the second Child Life Therapist at The Prince Charles Hospital funded by The Common Good.
The addition of her role is thanks to the generosity of the Foundation’s remarkable community and corporate supporters, including those who took part in this year’s Chain Reaction Challenge Foundation and donated to The Prince Charles Hospital's 2024 Giving Day.
With the first Child Life Therapist supporting around 2,000 children and their families each year, adding a second Child Life Therapist means even more sick and injured children will have access to this vital service when they visit the hospital in their time of need. The benefits? Helping to alleviate fear, anxiety, and pain related to medical assessments, treatments, and procedures.
“We help them understand their experience through play, their most natural way of learning, ensuring a positive hospital stay that shapes their future relationship with healthcare,” Lisa said.
The Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer, Steve Francia, said, “We were proud to fund the very first Child Life Therapist at The Prince Charles Hospital in 2022, and we’re equally proud to add another one at TPCH and also extend support of that role into Caboolture Hospital.”
You can read more about the expansion of the Child Life Therapy service here 👉www.tcg.org.au/clt25
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