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Help deliver happiness and healing to hospitalized children.

You can help provide therapeutic play and toys for Child Life services throughout the year. The Child Life program is made possible by donors like you and eases the anxiety kids have while staying in the hospital and receiving difficult treatments.

And monetary donations go further by providing our Child Life staff with the flexibility to purchase exactly what hospitalized children need most.

DONATION MATCH
courtesy of American Family Insurance

Double Your Gift Today!

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Your gift is being made through the University of Wisconsin Foundation which raises, invests, and distributes funds for the benefit of Wisconsin Medicine.

And now, your gift will go twice as far!

From now until January 17, 2025, American Family Insurance will match every dollar donated to this campaign up to $50,000.

You can impact the programs and services provided by Child Life.

Child Life Program

Certified child life specialists help children, teens and families cope with the fear and anxiety associated with coming to or staying in the hospital.

Music Therapy

Our music therapist uses music-based interventions to support our patients' emotional, psychological, physical and social well-being.

Positive Image Center

Our licensed cosmetologist helps kids with appearance-altering conditions. Salon services include haircuts and styles, temporary hair coloring, hair sparkles and feathers, wig fitting and application, nail painting and make-up application.

Sibling Care

Tyler’s Place provides siblings ages 3-12 of hospitalized children with structured activities in a supervised environment for up to two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon.

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