With help from their friends in the Child Life Department, patients at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia learn to "shake it off" and celebrate Child Life Month.

CHOP’s Pet Therapy Program is expanding from 30 dogs up to 80 dogs and owners, thanks to a generous donation by Gerald B. Shreiber.

The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a nonprofit that helps kids with serious medical issues experience the joys of camp, sent 30 volunteers to The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia last summer. They were armed with activity plans, supplies and an endless amount of energy and compassion.

Music therapist Mike Mahoney, MA, MT-BC, offers up instruments from his cart: maracas, a drum, a keyboard. The children at the Alex Scott Day Hospital are eager to sing and play music.

Sedation is common before procedures and scans such as an MRI, and as a child life specialist in Radiology’s Sedation Unit, Melanie Hoynoski is there to prepare kids on what to expect.

CHOP staff and patients celebrated Earth Day 2014 by planting and playing in the Sea Garden on the rooftop of Children’s Seashore House.