Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
Child Life and Creative Arts Program · About this organization
What you get
Play, art, procedure preparation, therapy dogs, and school-return help for your child during illness, trauma, or loss, at no extra charge.
How to start
Ask your hospital team about Child Life and creative-arts visits during your stay.
The details, as published
No-extra-charge hospital support for infants, children, youth, and families coping with illness, trauma, loss, or bereavement, including therapeutic play, procedure preparation, art and clown therapy, tours, books, daily Child Life Zone programming, therapy dogs, and school-return help.
What help you may get
Peer And Emotional Support
Child Life and Creative Arts Program — peer and emotional support
No-extra-charge hospital support for infants, children, youth, and families coping with illness, trauma, loss, or bereavement, including therapeutic play, procedure preparation, art and clown therapy, tours, books, daily Child Life Zone programming, therapy dogs, and school-return help.
Amount not published
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. JDCH pediatric patients or cancer families can use the service when the program-specific rules are met.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be in: Published treatment-location area.
Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
- Florida — Florida — Florida
- Boca Raton — Boca Raton
- Hollywood — Hollywood
How to get started
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.
- Use the current hospital page, care team, phone, form, or onsite pathway for this program.
Ways to apply or ask
- In Person
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Hospital Mediated |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
Limitations and things to confirm
- Public pages do not publish every capacity, cost, geographic, documentation, or intake rule.
- Confirm unpublished intake, capacity, cost, and eligibility details.
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Child Life and Creative Arts Program · checked Aug 24, 2026