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Discover how music and the performing arts promote healing.

Cancer Care

Propel advances in cancer care and treatment, bringing hope and healing to patients.

Child Life

Providing compassionate support for children of adult patients facing serious illness.

Heart and Vascular

Delivering advanced heart and vascular care with lifesaving treatments, groundbreaking research, and expanded access to cutting-edge cardiac services.

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Shape the future of medicine by helping train the next generation of physicians and nurses.

Transplant

Support comprehensive, life-changing care for transplant patients and their families.

Women and Children

Enhance care for women and newborns through support for high-risk pregnancies, critically ill infants, and advanced women’s surgical care.

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Beyond the Bag

Beyond the Bag event raises funds for the critical non-medical cancer support services at the Joan Katz Cancer Resource Center. 

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The 1906 Society recognizes loyal donors by providing convenience and special amenities during the member’s health care experience.

Women’s Health Council

The Women’s Health Council empowers women to become knowledgeable and proactive about health throughout every stage of life.

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Child Life Program

Providing compassionate support for children of adult patients facing serious illness, helping them navigate fear, grief, and loss with expert child life care.

Child Life Specialists

Unique to adult hospitals, our Palliative Care Child Life Program serves children (ages 0-18 years) of adult patients facing serious, life-limiting conditions. These psychosocial services are free to families and fully funded through generous philanthropic support from our community. Last year, this program saw a 25% increase in the number of child life visits facilitated in Fort Worth. Our two child life specialists conducted 577 visits with 186 families and 220 children.

Bridging the gap in support for kids

Children have fears and questions that may go unspoken when their loved one is experiencing a serious medical condition. Their most common concerns are often; Can I catch it? Did I cause it? Who will take care of me? Our highly-trained and expertly-skilled palliative care child life specialists provide guidance to adults so they feel more confident addressing these concerns with their children.

Each year, more than two million U.S. children under the age of 18, experience the death of a parent. Those deaths often occur following a serious illness. Research shows that a parent’s serious illness or death can dramatically impact children, increasing their risk for substance abuse, criminal activity, dropping out of school, and depression. Interventions facilitated by child life specialists can help mitigate those risks and provide a safe place for children to ask questions they may struggle to bring up to their families.

Services provided

At Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth, our Child Life Specialist supports with services which include:

  • Helping adults explain the serious medical condition to children at their developmental level
  • Educating adults to increase their understanding, while planning for and responding to children’s unique reactions to grief and loss
  • Meeting directly with children to assess their understanding, identify and manage their feelings, and address their concerns about their loved one’s serious medical condition
  • Teaching children about what to expect for hospital visits, a new or ongoing serious medical condition and changes in their loved one’s abilities and appearance
  • Supporting children and adults with end-of-life issues, including impending death, and traumatic events
  • Assisting with memory-making activities for unexpected or expected death, and preparing children for funerals

Your impact: How philanthropy fuels healing and hope

The Child Life Program is 100% funded by philanthropy, ensuring that families can access these services at no cost. Your support helps sustain this critical program, allowing child life specialists to provide ongoing comfort and guidance to children and families in need.

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