With ACLP’s increasing focus on research and evidence-based practice, now is the time to become more comfortable having conversations about data. In this webinar, we will discuss the importance of data and how impactful a working knowledge of data analysis can be for drawing conclusions within child life practice, management, and the professional landscape. Because many child life specialists don’t yet feel confident completing their own statistical analyses, we will discuss how to tap into resources to find analytic support and how to communicate your analytic goals when you do. This webinar will increase the data literacy of child life specialists and decrease their hesitation around quantitative data. Suggested Domain: Professional Responsibility This webinar is part of our Established Professionals programming.

In this webinar, we will discuss how to integrate youth voice into the research process. The webinar will focus on the principles of youth participatory action research (YPAR). The webinar will demonstrate the spectrum of YPAR and how to--in a variety ways--involve youth and youth voice into the research process. Additionally, the webinar will discuss potential ethical dilemmas of involving youth voice and ways to overcome these obstacles. Suggested Domain: Ethics This webinar is part of our Established Professionals programming

Abolitionists [child life specialists] fight for children they will never meet or see because they are visionaries; (Love, 2020, pg 90). The current cultural climate makes it imperative to not only grow our knowledge and skills in racial consciousness but to be strategic and methodical in thought, communication, and action

Join us as we kick-off our 2020 Child Life Virtual Conference live!

Join us for a conversation with leaders of color in the fields of child life and diversity, equity, & inclusion Learning Objectives: -Name the dominant cultural norms of whiteness and develop a working frame to identify how whiteness operates across systems, structures, and every day. -Critique how the white imagination can operate inside the minds of white child life specialists, specifically through emotional disinvestment, lack of critical understanding of race, and the presence of guilt, shame, and defensiveness. -Review the findings on the impact of racism on child and adolescent health through the lens of critical race theory. -Locate their entrance to the problem of sustaining racial injustice and use this awareness as a catalyst to action. Suggested Domain: Professional Responsibility