STAGE 2. THE HOSPITAL · HEAL THROUGH PLAY
#GFLX (Games For Love Experience) puts gaming stations, consoles, wifi, and adaptive tech into 200+ children’s hospitals. Clinical evidence: 43% pain reduction, 61% anxiety reduction. Per-session cost: $1.50. Aria found hope here. Rose found peace. Jake found friends.
⭐ #1 Rated Gaming Charity on Charity Navigator|🏆 Platinum GuideStar|✅ 501(c)(3) Verified|🏥 200+ Hospitals
PROGRAM ECOSYSTEM. YOU ARE HERE
Kids don’t age out. The loop closes when survivors become sponsors.
THE PROBLEM
When you are 9 and stuck in bed for 6 months of chemo, the medicine treats your body. The question is what treats your spirit. Gaming. Not as luxury. As medicine.
HOW #GFLX WORKS
This is what happens when a hospital partners with #GFLX.
A hospital reaches out. We tour the facility, meet Child Life specialists, ask what their kids need. Every hospital is different.
Custom delivery: consoles, game rooms, adaptive controllers, wifi upgrades, gaming carts. Whatever fits the space and the patients.
3-year partnership. Equipment warranties. 24/7 hotline for staff. We do not drop and disappear. We stay.
REAL KIDS. REAL HEALING.
Real kids at real hospitals. Names, conditions, outcomes documented. Gaming was their bridge through the hardest months.
YOUR DOLLAR. A KID’S JOY.
$1.50 per session is the verified per-child cost. Other amounts here reflect typical equipment economics.
Per-session cost ($1.50) is verified from program economics. Equipment costs vary by hospital configuration and adaptive equipment needs.
WE’RE GIVING. ACTIVE GFLX CAMPAIGNS
Hospital, donor, or sponsor. Pick your way in.
We’re Giving launches with specific hospital and kid campaigns soon. Until then, give to the general #GFLX fund and we route to the hospital with the biggest need.
WHY YOU CAN TRUST US
A 2022 meta-analysis showed gaming therapy delivers 43% pain reduction and 61% anxiety reduction for hospitalized kids. We use what works.
You can be the reason they are laughing in 30 minutes instead. Pick how you want to help.
🎉 THE 1 DAY MOVEMENT
Birthday. Anniversary. Survival day. Working day. Claim ONE day. Turn it into a hospital room.
Helping Kids For Life.
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK
#GFLX is the Games For Love program that brings gaming as distraction therapy to children’s hospitals. We supply consoles, games, adaptive tech, wifi, and ongoing support. Free for partner hospitals. Per-session cost to GFL is $1.50.
A 2022 meta-analysis showed gaming therapy during treatment delivers 43% pain reduction and 61% anxiety reduction in pediatric patients. Child Life specialists call it distraction therapy. We call it giving kids their personality back during the worst moments of their lives.
Over 200 children’s hospitals across 50 US states and 11 countries, including Seattle Children’s Hospital (first partner, where Aria was treated), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Cincinnati Children’s, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, IWK Health Centre, Boston Children’s, and Ronald McDonald House.
Email [email protected] with your facility name and current Child Life setup. We schedule a virtual tour, build a custom plan, and ship the gear. No cost to your hospital.
86% of every dollar goes directly to programs (gaming stations, equipment, hospital support). 14% covers admin and fundraising. Games For Love is the #1 rated charity in gaming on Charity Navigator. $1.50 = 1 life touched.
Three things. (1) 3-year partnerships, not one-time drops. (2) Equipment warranties. If it breaks, we replace it. (3) 24/7 support hotline for hospital staff. Hospitals call us the glue that makes everything work.
#GFLX is Stage 2 of our Program Ecosystem (after +1Up Rescue). Kids we help in the hospital can continue through Kids of STEAM (free coding to catch up academically), Scholarships, Interns International, and League of Pros. Supported from bedside to career.
