2018 marks the 15th year that Child’s Play has been in existence. In November of 2003, Gabe put up a post on Penny Arcade’s front page calling the gaming community to come together and support Seattle Children’s Hospital by creating an Amazon Wishlist with th
[…]The end of 2017 is almost upon us. We hope you’re having a wonderful holiday season, with a richly deserved break. Child’s Play had a great year, so much so that to summarize it all in a single post is a little intimidating. We’d better get started!
Partner Hospitals
First and foremost, we’ve added 18 new hospitals to our network, one notable addition is Wellington Children’s
[…]Child's Play is proud to offer our Therapeutic Video Game Guide, updated for 2017, which is an excellent tool for any clinician or caretaker who works with children.
The purpose of this guide is to recommend therapeutic video games for children based on their symptoms. The games recommended in this guide were curated by researchers at EEDAR, a market-leading video game research f
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In the last 14 years, Child’s Play has raised over $44 million dollars to improve the lives of children in pediatric hospitals and other child welfare facilities through the kindness and generosity of the video game community and th
If you’re like me, and have been lucky enough not to spend time in a Children’s Hospital you might not know what we are talking about when we say Child Life Staff. I know that when I pictured a Children’s Hospitals before I worked at Child’s Play, I only thought about doctors and nurses. To me, that was who worked there. I never considered exactly who was receiving the toys and games I donated through Child’s Play, or how they were being used in the hospital beyond being given to
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