Why Choose Advocate Lutheran General Children’s Hospital?

Advocate Lutheran General Children’s Hospital offers a comprehensive Child Life internship program that provides an opportunity to complete standard internship objectives, along with individual choice rotations. The internship program features:

• Innovative Child Life activity programming
• A stimulating medical environment with a variety of patient populations
• Independence within a team approach
• An emphasis on family centered care
• Cultural diversity
• Attractive and comforting patient care areas that promote healing
• Supervision by certified Child Life specialists
• Weekly intern meetings to discuss specific topics and share information
• Compliance with competency standards set forth by the Child Life Council

The Child Life program at Lutheran General Children’s Hospital is well established, respected and valued among our colleagues. Our goal is to provide an internship experience that prepares individuals to enter the Child Life profession, with a multitude of experiences and confidence in their clinical and interpersonal skills. We are pleased that nearly 32 interns who have completed our internship program have been hired into Child Life positions across the country.