For child life professionals, bereavement support teams, and medical teams, the practice of using bandage art adds a tangible touch of compassion to the care you provide. In times of stress, fear, or grief, people will often forget intangible acts of compassion. So, be sure you give them something they can see and feel to remind them of your genuine care for them. One way to demonstrate your heartfelt care, especially when working with children, is to use our new HeartFelt Stickers. The idea for these stickers, like many of our products, came from you–the experienced child life and healthcare… Continue Reading
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NICU Gift Ideas: Heart TouchStones
October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. The CDC reports that over 1 million pregnancies end in miscarriage or stillbirth each year. In this blog, we’ll review some ideas for comforting gifts that are appropriate for families who may have experienced a loss. These same items are also appropriate NICU gift ideas. Beyond this, many other newborns end up in the NICU for days, weeks, or even months. Our product line is designed to support NICU nurses, Child-Life Specialists, Chaplains, and anyone else looking to offer compassionate care to the families who have experienced a loss or are… Continue Reading
Take and Bake Containers Simplify Memory-Making
It’s not always possible to get the use of a craft or toaster oven approved at your workplace. Or, maybe you are concerned about baking onsite for other reasons, like staff time. If baking ClayLinks® prints is what is standing in your way of trying our process, consider our Take and Bake Containers. Don’t use a hand mold kit of lesser quality that is less versatile and more unpredictable. Just simplify your ClayLinks Memory Making Process instead! We designed our Take and Bake Containers to eliminate the step of baking prints onsite while still allowing you to send prints home… Continue Reading
Memory-Making Bedside With a Repurposed L&D Cart
Hearing stories about how you use ClayLinks® Kits in your workplace is endlessly interesting and educational to us. We learn so much each time you share. Your stories allow us to continually adapt and update the information we offer all our customers. This teaches best practices and allows us to share what works between all of you at your different hospitals across the country. Your stories also feed well into our efforts to support your use of ClayLinks Kits. They help make sure you are getting the most out of using CaringWisdom® products for memory-making with your patients. Today’s blog… Continue Reading
A Healing Ceremony for Bereaved Families: Decorating & Baking Prints At-Home
You may not be able to decorate or bake ClayLinks® prints onsite. That’s okay! It is more important that the print go home as soon after a loss as possible, the same day if it can. Don’t let baking stand in the way of sending families home with their loved ones’ prints. The experience of decorating and baking ClayLinks prints at home can become a healing ceremony for families. When you present it this way, families see that you are providing the opportunity to honor their loved one in their own way. The benefits to you of making ClayLinks prints… Continue Reading
Supporting Mental Health for Your Team
As you know, supporting the mental health of your team is important. We are closing out May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month, by bringing you some helpful ideas about how ClayLinks Kits can be a powerful tool for supporting your team’s mental and emotional health when used as part of your bereavement support protocol. Did you know, your team may benefit from the process of making ClayLinks prints while also supporting your patients, clients and their families? Consider the following thoughts from some of our customers: Betsy Strafach, Executive Director at 3Hopeful Hearts Bereavement Support says: “…when a baby… Continue Reading
