Healthy Kids - Fall 2023

INSIDE RADY CHILDREN’S

Art from the Heart PROGRAMS

There’s more to healing than meets the eye. At Rady Children’s, care stretches far beyond medical excellence and extends into the environment surrounding each child

rehabilitation unit, the Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Alexa’s PLAYC, the Helen Bernardy

Center for Medically Fragile Children and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services (CAPS) unit. Award-winning artist Yanina Cambareri spends her days inspiring creativity in patients, either at the bedside or in group settings. As a Healing Arts Associate, she shares her knowledge and talents with patients and helps them work through any anxiety around treatment and shift their focus from their condition. She also helps eating disorder patients in the Medical Behavioral Unit use art as an outlet for healing. Before joining the Healing Arts Program, Cambareri spent

ART IS SOMETHING THEY HAVE

throughout their stay. That’s where the healing arts come into play. The Hospital aims to create an atmosphere that promotes physical and emotional well-being. On any given day, you may hear guitar and harp melodies drifting through recovery units, artists guiding patients as they express themselves in color,

FULL CONTROL OVER, UNLIKE THEIR MEDICAL TREATMENT.

more than a decade volunteering at Rady Children’s and taught art in North County schools. Here she explains why she loves what she does and how art helps kids heal.

storytellers weaving whimsical tales and more. Artists perform in various areas of the Hospital, including the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, the

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