How to Follow a Collaborative Approach While Creating a Clinical Supervision Program

Andie Moore, MS, CCLS in her undergraduate years at Ohio University received a degree in arts and sciences with a focus of psychology and a degree in international studies with a focus of African studies. Andie decided to stay for another two years and obtain her masters of science in child and family studies with a child life concentration. Through multiple university opportunities, Andie traveled to the country of South Africa to work with various vulnerable populations and volunteered in Cape Town’s children’s hospital. She continued her child life volunteer work and student experiences in Florida and Ohio back in the United States. Andie has held her child life certification since March, 2019. Andie was a practicing child life specialist from April 2019 – November 2021. She worked in a regional hospital that had a pediatric unit and pediatric emergency room. Furthermore, Andie supported many children of adult patients and covered the regional hospital as a whole. She transitioned in November, 2021 into her role as an Administrative Program Coordinator to work for a program that supports unlicensed health care professionals—Patient Care Nursing Assistants.

Presenter Hannah Donofrio is a 2017 graduate of Child Life from the University of Akron. Throughout her collegiate years she spent time volunteering and in practicum with Akron Children’s Hospital in Akron Ohio. During this learning period, Hannah was active working with children of all abilities and diagnoses at Akron Rotary Camp for Children with Special Needs. Hannah went on to complete a child life internship at A.I. DuPont Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. Following these monumental experiences, Hannah became certified and employed as a CCLS in 2017. Since this time, she has worked in a regional hospital setting in Northeast Ohio providing child life services across all hospital departments to children of adult patients, NICU families, inpatient pediatric patients, but primarily dedicated time to the pediatric emergency room. Hannah recently completed her master’s degree in Social Work through The Ohio State University where she concentrated on loss and grief during her field placement at Cornerstone of Hope Bereavement Center in Independence, Ohio. She continues to support children and families through their losses individually, and in support group settings at this agency. Hannah is also employed as a Caregiver Support Specialist for a hospital system beginning this role in July, 2021 where she dedicates herself to the holistic coaching and support of Patient Care Nursing Assistants (PCNAs) throughout the hospital system, to promote their personal and professional success. In this role she is able to utilize much of her experiences as a child life specialist and her education and training as a social worker to identify the barriers PCNAs are up against, and work towards resolving and learning from those challenges over the course of their first year of employment at the hospital.