ELLEN C. GOOD
10 BRISTOL STREET
BRANFORD, CT 06405
(203)-688-3844 (OFFICE)
(203)-688-3681 (FAX)
EDUCATION: Wheelock College Graduate School, Boston, MA
May 1981
M.S.Ed
LowellUniversity, Lowell, MA
June 1974
B.M.Ed.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Manager of Child Life
Child Life Department
Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
New Haven, CT
*September 2000 to present*
Adjunct Professor, School of Social Work
Child Development/Child Care Faculty
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
*September 1996 to August 2000*
Designed and taught core curriculum coursework for undergraduate and
graduate students enrolled in the Child Development/Child Care Faculty.
Clinical Specialist – Child Life/Child Development
Child’s Way Pittsburgh, PA
*December 1999 to August 2000*
Developed and implemented appropriate early intervention programming for
medically and developmentally challenged infants to three year olds enrolled in
this prescribed pediatric extended care facility.
Manager
Child Life and Volunteer Services Department
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
*July 1996 to February 1999*
Responsibilities included revision and assessment of programming;
management and education of staff development which involved teaching,
research, clinical activities; community outreach and city/state policy advocacy
roles; coordinated budget; established programs in alternative settings; revised
student internship program.
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Manager of Child Life Academic Instructor
Winnipeg Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA University of Manitoba
*May 1988 to June 1996*
Manager of Child Life: responsible for the co-ordination, administration,
development and communications of the Child Life department, including
program development (CHTV, Therapeutic Clown Program, Book Corner Library,
Family Information Library), and the implementation, preparation and
maintenance of the budget, departmental materials, staff growth, supervision
and professional/educational development. Established and co-facilitated the
Family Advisory Committee and was active with the Diversity Council re:
Aboriginal health care issues.
Academic Instructor in the Faculty of Medicine, Pediatric & Child Health
Department, University of Manitoba; responsible for lecture series and clinical
skills instruction of Medicine I, II & III students during pediatric rotation.
Responsible for the development and implementation of a medical student
volunteer program within the Child Life Department.
Director of Child Life Academic Instructor
Oklahoma Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics
Oklahoma City, OK OklahomaUniversity
*September 1985 to May 1988*
Director of Child Life: planned, administered, coordinated a new Child Life
program designed to enhance psychosocial support to hospitalized children
(neonates-21 years) and their families. Duties included maintenance of budget,
record keeping, developing new projects, supervision of volunteers and college
student interns, responsible to various hospital administrative and medical
committees as an active board member, responsible for hospital seminars,
inservices and clinical instruction.
Academic Instructor in the Faculty of Medicine, Pediatric Department,
University of Oklahoma; responsible for academic and clinical instruction of
Medicine III students and interns; collaborated with medical faculty on various
clinical and academic projects.
Child Life/Child Development Coordinator
MedicalCenterHospital of Vermont, Burlington, VT
June 1982 – July 1985
Created and implemented an educational, therapeutic and recreational program
for hospitalized children and their families. Trained and supervised foster
grandparents, volunteers, undergraduate and graduate students. Instructed
University of Vermont medical and nursing students during their pediatric
rotations. Active in community outreach projects and with medical advocacy
organizations.
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Child Life Fellow
Children’s MedicalCenter, Dallas, TX
August 1981 – May 1982
Post-graduate fellowship provided paid experience and offered professional
responsibility under clinical supervision with a focus on administrative skills’
development, communication skills and work with children and families in an
acute care children’s hospital.
Child Life Worker, Patient Activity Specialist
Children’s HospitalMedicalCenter, Boston, MA
September 1980 – December 1980, Practicum
Worked in an outpatient/admitting area providing emotional support to patients
and families. Prepared children for various procedures and hospitalization
through planned tours and use of medical play.
Elementary Music Specialist
BatchelderElementary School, North Reading, MA
September 1974 – June 1980
Taught grades K-6 and special needs classes. Revised curriculum, supervised
student teachers, created and directed annual musical plays, productions, special
events. Developed guitar classes, girls/boys choruses, related fields trips, hands-
on classroom activities. Initiated creative movement, art, music and interrelated
educational activities.
PRESENTATIONS/
LECTURES/PAPERS:
Fall 2012, poster presentation at CHA conference on PRECEPT - Pain Reduction:
Every Child Every Possible Time, Washington, DC
Spring 2012, co-facilitated multiple seminars during the hospital-wide PRECEPT
initiative (Pain Reduction: Every Child Every Possible Time), Yale-New Haven
Children’s Hospital.
Winter 2010, presented Psychosocial needs of hospitalized children and their
familiesat theUniversity of Padova. Hosted by Dr. Carlo Moretti,
Department of Pediatrics, Salus Pueri, Padova, ITALY.
Fall 2009, presented LEAN Concepts to Child Life Directors at annual Directors
meeting, Scottsdale, AZ.
Spring 2007, presented Family Centered Care seminar to representatives of Weill
Cornell-The KomanskyCenter, NY PresbyterianHospital, New Haven, CT.
Spring 2007, key note speaker at Medical Career Day, NazarethAcademy,
Wakefield, MA.
Fall2004, provided education seminars and lectures during an Operation
Smile trip to Curitiba and Joinville Brazil.
Spring 2001, presented at the SaltLakeCity Child Life Council conference, “Faith
and Spirituality in the Workplace: How Important Is It?”
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Spring 2000, presented Family Centered Care at the Western Pennsylvania
Hospital medial lecture series, Pittsburgh, PA.
Spring 1999, taught series of lectures on development, death & bereavement,
therapeutic play, families under stress to nursing students and faculty of the
KeioJuniorNursingCollege, Tokyo, Japan.
Spring 1999, facilitated workshop on Volunteerism at the YMCA Leadership
Networking Series, Pittsburgh, PA.
Fall 1998, presented “Child and Family Centered Care” lecture series to visiting
Japanese nursing students and university nursing faculty, University of
PittsburghSchool of Nursing.
Summer 1998, facilitated lecture at the “Leadership Project Caucus”
Pennsylvania Governor’s School for HealthCare, University of Pittsburgh, Health
and Advocacy Programs for Children.
Spring 1998, presented “Reimbursement for Child Life Interventions…has the
time come?” at the Child Life Council conference, Kansas City, MO.
Spring 1997, presented “Preparation: Reducing the Element of Surprise” at the
Pediatric Grand Rounds, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA.
Spring 1997, presented, “Play as a Therapeutic Tool” at the Western Psychiatric
Institute, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA.
Spring 1996, presented “Child Life and Medical Student Education” and “Working
with Volunteers in a Changing Health Care Environment” at the Child Life Council
conference, Albuquerque, NM.
Fall 1995, appeared on WTN, a live, national (Canadian) television production
speaking on “The Chronically Ill Child”, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Spring 1995, presented, “Defending Your Program”, at the Child Life Council
conference,Boston, MA.
Spring 1994, presented at the Child Life Council conference, “Multicultural
Issues”, Toronto, Ontario.
Spring 1993, presentation at the Child Life Council conference, “Accreditation of
Academic and Clinical Preparation Programs in Child Life: Exploring the
Possibilities”, Chicago, IL.
Winter 1993, presented at When a Child Dies: A Pediatric Nursing Conference on
“Grief and Loss, Growth and Development: Child/Sibling Perspective”, Winnipeg,
Manitoba.
Fall 1992, presented at the Pain in Childhood Symposium, “Assessment and
Management of Acute and Chronic Pain in the Pediatric Patients”, University of
Manitoba.
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Spring 1992, presented “Managing a Child Life Program in a GeneralHospital” at
the Child Life Council conference, Atlanta, GA.
Summer 1991, presented at the National Children’s Cancer Conference, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, “Behaviors of the Well and Ill Preschool Child”.
Spring 1991, presented at the Child Life Council conference, Minneapolis, MN, “A
Hospital Preparation Program: Preparing Well Children for Health Care
Encounters”.
Fall 1990, presented “The Hospitalized Child and Family” at the BrandonHospital
Conference of Medical Technologists, Brandon, Manitoba.
Winter 1990, presented “Your Child’s Special needs” to Pediatric Cardiology
Parent Support Group, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Summer 1989, presented “Good Grief” seminar to the Make-A-Wish Foundation,
Boston, MA.
Spring 1989, presented “Single Person Programs & the Future of Child Life” at the
Child Life Council conference, Anaheim, CA.
Winter 1989, presented to University of Manitoba Medical Subspecialty Rounds,
“Communicating with the Hospitalized Child”.
Winter 1989, presented, “Innovative Steps in Child Life Programming” to
University of Manitoba Medical Subspecialty Rounds, Winnipeg, MB.
Fall 1987, presented “The Hospitalized Child and Family” at the statewide
Oklahoma Nursing Association Conference.
Spring 1987, presented “The Use of Therapeutic Play & Art in a Medical Setting” at
the University of Oklahoma Art Therapy Association Conference.
Winter 1987, presented “Using Play as an Assessment Tool” at the Pediatric
Resident’s Seminar, OklahomaUniversityMedicalSchool.
Winter 1986, presented “How To Talk So Kids Will Listen”, at the OklahomaState
NursingSchool’s Seminar.
Spring 1986, presented “Child Life in Hospital” at the Medical Grand Rounds,
OCMH, Oklahoma City.
Winter 1986, presented “How to Foster Normal Growth and Development in the
Hospitalized Child” at the Family Medicine Grand Rounds, OTH, Oklahoma City.
Children & Hospitals/Health Care Week, Chairperson; March 1998, 1997,
Pittsburgh, PA; October 1991, March 1990, 1989, Winnipeg, MB; march 1987,
1986, Oklahoma City, OK.
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PUBLICATION(S):
Good, Ellen & Robertson, Adrian, The Participation of Medical Students in Child Life
Programs.MEDISCAN Journal of CFMS/FEMC: Ottawa, Ont., Vol.14 no.3, (15-16),
Spring 1995.
RESEARCH
ACTIVITIES:
Co-facilitator of children’s intervention groups on the project, Young Women with
Breast Cancer. Principal investigator, Dr. Sally Tarbell, Assistant Professor of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 1999.
Preparation of Preschoolers for Same Day Surgery, Co-investigator with
Dr. Sally Tarbell, Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
University of Pittsburgh, Kevin Brooks, MA, CCLS, Children’s Hospital of
Pittsburgh -Principal investigators Dr. Edward Barksdale, Assistant Professor of
Pediatric Surgery and Dr. Peter Davis, Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics,
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, April 1998.
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES:
Habitat for Humanity “Building Partnerships with Yale-NewHavenHospital”, New
Haven, CT, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013.
Susan G. Komen “Run for the Cure”, coordinated children’s educational activities
tent, Hartford, CT, June 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.
Greater New Haven Soup Kitchen, Branford, CT, 2006 – 2009.
JohnC. Daniels Elementary School, New Haven, CT, reading tutor, 2006 –2009.
Operation Smile, Joinville and Curitiba, Brazil, 2005.
Greater New Haven Literacy Program, ESL tutor, 2003-2006.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES:Vice President, Executive Board, Ronald McDonald House,CT/MA, 2015 – 2017.
President, Advisory Board,Ronald McDonald House, New Haven, CT., 2013- 2017.
Committee member, Child Life Council, Leadership Committee, 2013 -2016.
Committee chair, Ad Hoc Committee - CLC Official Documents, 2012-2016.
Committee member, Child Life Council Awards Committee, 2011-2014.
Committee member, Child Life Council Strategic Planning Committee, 2011-2013.
President, Child Life Council, Rockville, MD, 2008-2011.
Committee chair,CLC Nominating Committee, 2010-2011.
Member, Yale-NewHavenHospital, Patient Family Centered Care Committee,
2008- present.
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Committee member, Professional Resources, Child Life Council, Rockville, MD,
2007-2008.
Committee member, YNHCH Pediatric Ethics Committee, 2003- present.
Chair, Family Centered Care Committee, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 2005 – 2007.
Council member, Family Advisory Council, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital,
2009 – present.
Co-Chair, Family Advisory Council, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, 2003 –
2009.
Founder & coordinator, annual Take Your Child to Work Day event, Yale-New
Haven Hospital, 2002 – present.
Reviewer and member of editorial board, The Bulletin, Child Life Council
Publication, Rockville, MD, 2002 – 2010.
Board Member, The Tommy Fund, New Haven, CT. 2000 - 2004.
Board Member, The Ronald McDonald House, New Haven, CT. 2001 – 2003.
Co-Chair, Pediatric Bereavement Steering Committee, Yale-New Haven Children’s
Hospital, 2003 – present.
Committee Member, Pediatric Ethics Committee, Yale-New Haven Children’s
Hospital, 2003- present.
English as a second language tutor, Literacy Project of America, Greater New
Haven CT. Chapter, 2003 – 2005.
Co-Chair, International Issues Committee, Child Life Council, 2000 – 2002.
Elected Board Member, Member-at-Large, Child Life Council,Rockville, MD 1998 -
2000.
Co-facilitator of children’s intervention groups on the research project, Young
Women with Breast Cancer, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 1998 -2000.
Board Member, Center for Creative Play, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997 – 2000.
Member-at-Large, Child Life Council Executive Board, Rockville, MD, 1997 -1998.
Co-Chair, Marketing & Public Relations Committee, Child Life Council, 1997-1999.
Member, Nominating Committee,ACCH, 1994 – 1997.
Chairperson, Nominating Committee, Child Life Council, 1995 – 1996.
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Co-Facilitator, “Good Mourning”, Children’s Grief Group, Children’s Hospital of
Winnipeg, 1995 – 1996.
Secretary, Canadian Association of Child Life Directors, 1994 – 1995.
Advisory Board Member of the Family Advisory Committee, Children’s Hospital of
Winnipeg 1993 – 1996.
Board Member, Child Life Council Executive Board, Bethesda, MD, 1993 – 1994.
President, Child Life Certifying Commission, Bethesda, MD, 1990 – 1994.
Committee Member/Hospital Liaison, Children’s Hospital Research Foundation,
Public Relations Committee, Winnipeg, MB, 1990 - 1996
Vice-President, Manitoba ACCH Affiliate, Winnipeg, MB, 1989 – 1992.
Governing Board Member, Child Life Certifying Commission, Bethesda, MD 1989-
1990
Advisory Board Member, The Compassionate Friends, Winnipeg, MB, 1989-1996.
Ombudsman, Pediatric Research Committee, Children’s Hospital of Winnipeg,
1988-1996.
Board Member of the Oklahoma Pediatric Cancer Association, 1986-1988.
Advisory Board Member of the CentralStateUniversity Child and Family
Development Program, 1986 – 1988.
Family Subcommittee Member of the Oklahoma Commission on Children and
Youth, 1985 – 1988.
Activities Co-Chair of the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon, Children’s Medical
Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, 1985 -1988.
House Policies Board Member, Ronald McDonald House,Burlington, VT 1983-
1985.
Co-Founder of BurlingtonVT Chapter of The Compassionate Friends, Hospital
Liaison Advisor, 1982 – 1984.
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS:
New England Child Life Professionals, 2006 – present
AECI, 2004 - present
Child Life of Greater New York, Inc, 2002 – present
NAEYC, 1992 – present
Child Life Council, Inc., 1986 – present
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CONTINUING
EDUCATION:
Greater New Haven Leadership Program, certificate, 2002
University of Manitoba Certificate Program in Management
1995 – course completed: Managing Human Resources
1993 – course completed: Environment & Functions of Management
CERTIFICATES:
Certified Child Life Specialist, 1987 – current
CPR certified 2015 – 2017
Leadership certificate, 2002, Greater New Haven Leadership Institute, CT