October 10, 2009
8am-5pm
 

Texas Children's Hospital 2009 Child Life Conference
Denton A. Cooley Building, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital - Houston, TX

Texas Children’s Hospital presents its biennial Child Life Conference this October 2009. This event welcomes all child life professionals and students interested in pursuing a career in child life and anyone else interested in furthering their knowledge of child life-related topics. Attendees will increase their awareness of current trends and issues affecting hospitalized children and enhance their knowledge of a variety of child life practices in order to provide more comprehensive child life care and promote continual growth.

Conference Prices
$100 for early registration before Aug 1
$125 for registration between Aug 1–Sep 15
$135 for registration after Sep 15

Student Rates
$70 for registration through Sep 15
$80 for registration beginning Sep 16

Note: A special student session will be held on Friday, October 9 from 4:30-8:30pm. Registration is $15.

For more information and to register please visit:
www.texaschildrens.org/childlifeconference.

October 21-23, 2009

5th biennial Conference on Spirituality in Pediatrics
Marriott Medical Center – Houston, TX

The Auxiliary to Texas Children's Hospital presents the 2009 Conference on Spirituality in Pediatrics, a dynamic conference which explores the impact that pediatric care providers can have on the spiritual needs and concerns of children and their families during illness.

This year’s three day conference focuses on the role of spirituality within a pediatrics healthcare setting. Key leaders in the fields of both spirituality and pediatrics bring the latest in research and share best practice information with healthcare professionals and spiritual leaders.

In an interdisciplinary setting, attendees will learn aspect of palliative care, models of children's spiritual development and methods for meeting spiritual needs of families, children and caregivers.

At the 2009 conference you will:

• Learn about Rabbi Samuel Karff's Sacred Vocation Program in healthcare institutions, designed to nourish the spirit of the caregiver and result in greater patient satisfaction

• Experience pediatric hospice nurse Kristie Cullum's stories of facilitating spiritual conversations with dying children and their families

• Find out from a panel of parents what kinds of support they needed, and did or didn't have, when they received bad news about their children's health

• Explore a newly developed model of normal spiritual development in adolescents from a 17-country, 8000-person study, presented by Eugene Roehlkepartain of Search Institute

For more information or to register, visit www.texaschildrens.org/spirituality or call Ext. 42514.

*Texas Children's Hospital is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. If indicated, activities listed here meet Type I criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements toward relicensure as established by the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas.

For more information about pediatric training at Baylor College of Medicine, visit http://cme.bcm.tmc.edu