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The team at Mary Bridge Children\u2019s Hospital in Tacoma has found a way to show their winning smiles to children who come for care. Behavioral health and medical professionals caring for them are wearing photo buttons that show the face behind the mask.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think it\u2019s really important that kids and families know that we can still talk, that we can still laugh and that we can still smile underneath our masks,\u201d says Julie Hertzog, Child Life Supervisor at Mary Bridge Children\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Even in so-called \u2018normal\u2019 times, a child can be pretty stressed about going to a clinic or hospital. For one thing, the child has likely never met some of these people before.<\/p>\n

One way you can make a child comfortable is to smile at them. Now the caregivers wear two smiles \u2014 one on their face, cloaked by a mask, but also on a prominent button with the caregiver\u2019s picture.<\/p>\n

The \u201cUnder This Mask is a Helper\u201d program, developed by Ashley Mangum, MSW, LICSW, a Mary Bridge Children’s social worker, uses buttons at check-in, during examinations\u00a0or in the hospital to display the smiling faces of the behavioral health and medical professionals caring for each child.\u00a0 The program is designed to help the child feel more comfortable about the person in front of them.<\/p>\n

The buttons are being donated by Kids’ Mental Health Pierce County (KMHPC). The buttons are made by a small business in the Carbonado area called Becka Makes Buttons.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing to the doctor can be stressful, especially for kids. We know that,\u201d Hertzog says. \u201cWe want kids to feel safe and comfortable while they\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Additional Resources for providers, kids and families explaining personal protective equipment (PPE) are available on the Mary Bridge Children’s<\/a> and KMHPC<\/a> websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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