We are dedicated to inspiring, promoting, and advocating for child life professionals across Florida. We offer networking opportunities and ongoing education in this dynamic field, empowering professionals to support children and families in their times of need.
Welcome to the Florida Association of Child Life Professionals (FACLP), an organization committed to providing support and education for current and aspiring Child Life Specialists in Florida. Our members are dedicated professionals who work with children and their families during times of hardship, especially in hospital settings. Our goal is to inspire, advocate for, and promote people who are or want to become Child Life Specialists and create a community dedicated to using our education and compassion to help children and families in need.
At FALCP, we are passionate about creating opportunities for our members and others in the Child Life Specialist community to get together and learn from each other. Every year we hold a conference that allows Child Life Specialists to attend educative sessions led by professionals in our field and network with fellow specialists throughout Florida. Learn more about FALCP’s annual conferences and experience the opportunity to learn more, network, and partake in activities with fellow members of the FALCP community.
Your support helps FACLP provide essential resources and advocacy for child life professionals across Florida.
FACLP strives to provide a space where Child Life Professionals can gain education, support, and networking opportunities. We want to ensure that children and families going through hardships get the support they deserve from professionals who care. By educating healthcare providers, hospital administrators, and community organizations, we hope to share the importance of supporting and growing the child life profession. We aim to make FALCP an organization that is there for its members and the children and families in need.
The Florida Association of Child Life Professionals (FACLP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for Child Life Professionals throughout Florida. We provide learning resources, networking, and career opportunities to enhance the field of child life services, so we can better provide for children and their families in need.
A Certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS) is a professional that helps children and their families during hardships, especially in healthcare settings. They prepare, educate, distract, play, and provide coping strategies to make children and their families feel as comfortable as possible.
You can join our Planning Committee if you are interested in taking part in the creation and success of our annual conference. We have multiple committees that are available to join, so you can find the right one for you.
To become a member at FACLP, visit our Membership page and select the correct membership for you.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to