For Child Life Month, we are very excited to welcome Jenaya Gordon and Jenni Davis, both seasoned Certified Child Life Specialists, leaders, researchers, and Emotional Safety Initiative experts and advocates! Come ready to learn about and discuss emotional safety, why it is a shared responsibility beyond Child Life, and how we can all collaborate across disciplines to achieve a shared goal in pediatric care -- better health and support for children.

Objectives:

1. Differentiate emotional safety and psychological safety 

2. Recognize how emotionally unsafe care affects both patients and healthcare professionals

3. Explore how collaboration supports emotionally safe care

4. Reflect on how prioritizing patient emotional safety can guide decisions about training, teamwork, and systems