Your donations make a difference. See below how your contributions make a lifelong impact on the lives of children in pediatric hospitals.
Thank you for helping us be kids.
Thank you for helping us play.
Thank you for helping us heal.
“It has been an asset for CoRe participants to have access to their own mobile gaming center each session and be able to play video games while acquiring important life skills and making new and positive friends.”
“As part of our coping plan, the patient played the DS (which was generously donated by Child's Play) while getting stitches.”
“...I found myself in a brightly-colored, brightly-lit room with three or four un-inhabited stretchers and a clutch of children in hospital gowns playing Playstation...”
“Last year’s gift from Child’s Play has continued to allow our patients and their families to normalize their hospital experience. ”
“The game systems and games provide such an important source of distraction as well as a familiarity in a place that is often unknown to children...”
“Video games didn't save my life, and I didn't have a terminal disease, but they took what could have been one of the worst experiences of my life and made it my most positive hospital-related experience to date.”