A party fit for princes and princesses at One Rb World 2024 in Hawaii.
Making and decorating clay prosthetic eyes at the Child Life Program, One Rb World 2024.
Child Life Program
We look forward to welcoming many parents and survivors to One Rb World 2026 in San Antonio, Texas. We are delighted to provide a full program of activities on September 12–14 for:
- Children diagnosed with retinoblastoma.
- Siblings and young relatives of diagnosed children.
- Children of adult survivors.
- Children of One Rb World Rb medical professionals.
The program will be led by Certified Child Life Specialist, Morgan Livingstone, a dedicated member of our global WE C Hope team, in collaboration with WE C Hope volunteers. One Rb World offers an enriched program of child life experiences for all participants.
As well as free play for all ages, the program will include activities designed to help children understand their experience with eye cancer, their emotional responses, medical procedures, and living with a special eye.
This wonderful child life program unites all the children of our One Rb World community. They can share in and focus on the enriched activities together, fostering connection and community between kids of all ages and experiences.
Registering Your Children
All children are registered free of charge. However, you must provide full name and age details for each child you wish to bring to the program, as requested on your registration form. If we do not receive this information, your child will not be registered, and may not be accepted to the child life program. This ensures we will be well-prepared, and the children in our program will be safe throughout the event.
Program Activities
From WE C Hope’s blog: Child Life Programs: Play With Purpose at Retinoblastoma Gatherings
Discover how child life can radically improve a family’s Rb experience, and how our child life programs at events like One Rb World are important.
Virtual Child Life Sessions and More
The American Academy of Pediatrics says child life is vital care, not an optional extra, but it’s lacking in many children’s retinoblastoma experience. See how we included child life for kids in our virtual pandemic-restricted meetings in 2020 and 2021.
The following selection of activities from past programs are examples of what children may find in San Antonio.
Self-Published Books
This exciting and engaging transformative literacy activity encourages children and teenagers to create a narrative book about all the things that make them an amazing individual. With some guiding statements such as “I am….” and “I can…”, children are able to share their thoughts, feelings and experiences in narrative form, adding their own images through drawing, collaging and scrapbook art materials.
Medical Play
Play is the language of childhood, so we have planned a wonderful playful exploration of common medical materials for children. They can dress up in scrubs and “BE” the doctor, blow bubbles with sedation masks, create syringe splatter paintings, and make bracelets with plastic IV tubing. Medical play allows children a safe and fun way to familiarize themselves with medical materials in a non-threatening way, and gain mastery over their own medical experiences – all while having FUN!
Sensory Play
Sensory play includes activities that stimulate children’s senses through touch, smell, taste, movement, balance, sight and hearing. Our fun and interactive sensory activities include making slime / putty, creating our own musical instruments using recycled materials, a blindfolded tasting station to learn about how our taste buds work (sour, sweet, bitter), and many more fun games! All these activities facilitate exploration and naturally encourage children to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate and explore.
All About Feelings
Feelings-focused activities give children and young adults a chance to learn about and explore the importance of ALL feelings! Children will make their own Punch Pillow to take home, and take part in a fun game of target practice using mini marshmallows. Each child can create their own feelings mask using a variety of art materials. They will have the opportunity to participate in some “kitchen chemistry” while learning about how important it is to share our feelings with someone we trust, and what can happen to our body when we bottle-up upset feelings.
EYE Love Art
A wide variety of art activities that all focus on eyes, including collage posters, papier mâché, photo/video art, and clay creations. Creating eye-themed art pieces gives children a platform to share their concerns about their own eyes in a safe environment, to ask questions, learn about eye care, release anxieties and develop new coping skills.
Eyeball gift bags, created by children during an EyeLoveArt project.
We Bring Child Life to Africa
Regardless of where they live in the world, all children with eye cancer experience invasive procedures and stressful events throughout their medical care. Those experiences can impact their ability to cope, inhibit their development and negatively affect their health and well-being throughout life. Child life supports effective healthcare and reduces trauma for children around the world.
Morgan Livingstone CCLS, who will lead our Child Life Program at One Rb World in San Antonio describes how WE C Hope brings hope through child life to children and their families in Africa.
This video and blog article showcase the work of our child life team at the Child Life pilot site in Eldoret, Kenya, which is now a fully functioning Child Life Program at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. The first child life training program in Africa, it remains the only place on the entire continent to develop professional skills in this vital area of pediatric medical care.
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