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All ACLP and CLCC online services will be offline starting August 18 at 12:00 AM EDT for 48–72 hours.

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New PDUs

Hear the latest evidence-based practices and earn PDUs through upcoming webinars, courses, and independent learning opportunities.

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NEW WEBINAR SERIES: The Intersection of Practice, Purpose, and Professional Identity

This NEW webinar series explores these key aspects of child life practice with expert presentations and a Q&A panel.

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ACLP WEBINAR: Ensuring Comfort and Cooperation: Strategies for Supporting Autistic Children in a Pediatric Ophthalmology Clinic

This webinar will explore the importance of eye exams for autistic children, the challenges they face during exams, and evidence-based strategies for child life specialists.

ACLP WEBINAR: Empowering Diversity: The Strength of a Multicultural Team in a Serving a Varied Community

This session will examine a collaborative effort that serves children and families from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds.

ACLP WEBINAR: Adjustment to Illness in Pediatric Palliative care: A Case for the "Poorly Behaved" Child

This webinar explores adjustment to illness in pediatric palliative care, highlighting assessment challenges, coping strategies, and the impact of missed concerns.

ACLP WEBINAR: Have YOU Played Today? Embracing Play In Adulthood As Self-care

This session explores play in adulthood as a self-care strategy, beginning with a review of research on play as a coping technique and the stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout child life specialists face.

Certification

Certification Resources

Whether you are preparing to take the Child Life Exam, maintaining certification, or recertifying, ACLP has a variety of tools and resources available to help support you.

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Research and Publications

Read the latest in child life research and publications

ACLP Bulletin Winter 2025

Read 10 articles in the latest issue of ACLP Bulletin!

ACLP Bulletin

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10 Tips for Engaging with Research as Child Life Professionals

If you’re interested in research but feeling intimidated or unsure where to begin, these 10 tips can help you to ease in gradually to build your knowledge, engagement, comfort and confidence.

Child Life Blog

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Journal of Child Life Vol. 5, Issue 1

Explore the latest research published in the spring issue of the Journal of Child Life.

Journal of Child Life

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Career Opportunities

Browse or post an open child life position in the ACLP Child Life Career Center.

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Scheduled Downtime!

All ACLP and CLCC online services will be offline starting August 18 at 12:00 AM EDT for 48–72 hours.

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New PDUs

NEW WEBINAR SERIES: The Intersection of Practice, Purpose, and Professional Identity

ACLP WEBINAR: Ensuring Comfort and Cooperation: Strategies for Supporting Autistic Children in a Pediatric Ophthalmology Clinic

ACLP WEBINAR: Empowering Diversity: The Strength of a Multicultural Team in a Serving a Varied Community

ACLP WEBINAR: Adjustment to Illness in Pediatric Palliative care: A Case for the "Poorly Behaved" Child

ACLP WEBINAR: Have YOU Played Today? Embracing Play In Adulthood As Self-care

Certification Resources

Research and Publications

ACLP Bulletin Winter 2025

10 Tips for Engaging with Research as Child Life Professionals

Journal of Child Life Vol. 5, Issue 1

Career Opportunities

Join the ACLP community

Calendar of Events

ACLP Webinar: Possibilities and Challenges of Child Life (Play Specialism) In a Non-Clinical Setting

Community Based Interest Group

Members of Color Interest Group

ACLP Webinar: Pill Swallowing: A Tool for Pharmaco-Equity in the Emergency Department

LGBTQIA+ Interest Group

Disability Interest Group

ACLP Webinar: Understanding the Educational Experiences of Pediatric Cancer Patients In Hospital Schools

ACLP Webinar: Not Just Sick Kids: Providing Care to Children in Hospitals with Complex Social Needs

ACLP Webinar: Supporting Youth in Juvenile Detention

ACLP Webinar: Breaking Taboos: Helping Students Explore Death Education Through Therapeutic Art Activities

Community Based Interest Group

Members of Color Interest Group

LGBTQIA+ Interest Group

Disability Interest Group

ACLP Webinar: Boundary Blurring: When Long-Term Relationships and Grief Cause Moral Distress