Redefining International Pediatric Healthcare Experiences
Healthcare experiences play a powerful role in children’s development, wellbeing, and long-term relationship with care. When healthcare environments are intentionally designed to support coping, connection, and play, they can become protective, healing spaces for children and families.
Pediatric psychosocial care strengthens these protective factors by integrating developmentally supportive, child-centered practices into healthcare delivery. Through partnership with Pediatric Potential, organizations are supported to build sustainable, evidence-informed approaches that enhance pediatric healthcare experiences across diverse cultural and clinical settings.
THE POTENTIAL
Key Outcomes of Partnership
Improved child coping and health outcomes
Developmentally supportive opportunities for play, learning, and expression
Culturally responsive, evidence-informed psychosocial support
Strengthened or expanded psychosocial staffing and services
Enhanced patient and family experiences within healthcare settings
Implementation of non-pharmaceutical pain management strategies
Advancing Child-Centered Healthcare Globally
Pediatric Potential partners with hospitals, clinics, academic institutions, and NGOs globally to strengthen sustainable pediatric psychosocial care systems. Our services support the development of protective, child-centered healthcare environments that enhance the experiences of hospitalized children and their families across diverse cultural and clinical settings.
Through evidence-informed, rights-based approaches, we work alongside partners to advance child-friendly healthcare practices and strengthen access to developmentally supportive resources, services, and training—tailored to each context and need.
8 Countries
10 Languages
A Global, Multidisciplinary Team
Our multidisciplinary team of experts, who live and work across 8 countries and speak 10 languages, reflecting Pediatric Potential’s international and culturally responsive approach. This global perspective enhances access to knowledge, best practices, and training in pediatric psychosocial care and child-centered healthcare—supporting children and families wherever they encounter a healthcare experience.
Certification Readiness
& Professional Practice
We support aspiring Certified Child Life Specialists (CCLS) through structured guidance, supervision, and experiential learning that strengthens certification readiness, clarifies pathways, and expands access to high-quality supervised experiences, including remote CCLS internship opportunities for students outside North America.
Practice, Sustainability
& Program Impact
We partner with Certified Child Life Specialists (CCLS) and psychosocial care professionals to strengthen reflective practice, clinical excellence, and service sustainability through supervision, program development, and evaluation— supporting meaningful, child-centered care across diverse healthcare settings.
Child-Centered Practice
Across Clinical Settings
We support healthcare teams to integrate developmentally supportive, child-centered care into everyday practice through workforce education, clinical supervision, and program support—building skills in child-friendly communication, non-pharmaceutical pain management, and trauma-informed care (TIC).
Education & Innovation in Pediatric Psychosocial Care
We partner with academic institutions to strengthen pediatric psychosocial education by aligning curriculum with contemporary clinical and global practice—supporting evidence-informed, rights-based training that prepares graduates for high-quality child life and psychosocial care.
Evidence & Impact in
Pediatric Psychosocial Care
We collaborate with researchers to strengthen evidence-based pediatric psychosocial care by supporting proof-of-concept development, implementation, and translation—advancing rigorous research that informs best practice across clinical, academic, and humanitarian contexts.
Pediatric Potential is a non-political 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to strengthening the well-being and resilience of hospitalized children and families worldwide.
OUR MISSION
Pediatric Potential's mission is to expand access to child-centered, developmentally supportive healthcare by strengthening pediatric psychosocial care across diverse global settings. We believe sustainable impact is achieved when training is support are accessible, culturally responsive, and designed to empower local healthcare providers to apply evidence-based psychosocial care practices within their own clinical and cultural contexts.
Every child deserves access to psychosocial care that reduces stress and anxiety during healthcare experiences and supports healthy development. Our work is grounded in a rights-based approach, informed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), and aligned with the World Health Organization (WHO)'s standards for child-centered healthcare and children's rights in hospital settings.
Guided by these principles, Pediatric Potential delivers services shaped by collective education and experience of a globally diverse, multidisciplinary team spanning North America, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Indian subcontinent - ensuring our work remains responsive, inclusive, and relevant across regions.
High-quality healthcare
Equality and non-discrimination
Play and learn
Information and participation
A safe and child-friendly environment
Protection from harm
Pain management and palliative care
WHAT WE DO
Explore
& Align
We begin by engaging with individuals and organizations via initial consultation to understand their context, priorities, and goals.
This initial conversation helps determine alignment with our scope of services and supports the development of a shared, values-driven partnership.
Co-design
the Approach
Building on early discussions, we collaboratively identify the most appropriate services to support partner objectives.
A tailored 'Proposal for Collaboration' is developed, outlining recommended deliverables, timelines, and associated costs for review and consideration.
Implement
& Strengthen
Following agreement on
a shared strategy, the collaboration is formalized through an MOU or contract.
Pediatric Potential partners closely with individuals and organizations to strengthen capacity and support sustainable programmatic or systemic improvements.
Partnering with Pediatric Potential
THE BENEFITS
Partnerships with Pediatric Potential are collaborative and tailored to support each partner’s context, priorities, and growth potential. Our services are designed to strengthen pediatric psychosocial care and help redefine healthcare experiences for children and families in meaningful, sustainable ways.
Evidence from pediatric psychosocial research and practice demonstrates that these approaches are associated with improved child coping and health outcomes, enhanced patient and family experiences, stronger workforce morale, increased community engagement, and more efficient use of healthcare resources—contributing to child-centered care environments that benefit both families and healthcare systems.
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