The Comfort Ability® Program
An amazing program developed at Boston Children's Hospital to help kids and teens with chronic symptoms and their parents or caregivers. The Comfort Ability® Program teaches the targeted skills and strategies to better manage chronic pain-related symptoms and get back on track.
Kids (3-11) Tweens & Teens (12+) Chronic pain Healthcare Providers Living with ongoing pain Pain psychologists Chronic Pain Chronic pain Living with ongoing pain Pain Management Pain psychologists
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About This Resource
The Comfort Ability® Program, led by Dr. Rachael Coakley, has workshops (in person or virtual) at children’s hospitals throughout North America and Australia. The workshops are a crash course in learning how to better manage a wide range of chronic symptoms (like headache, abdominal pain, nausea, nerve pain, fatigue, joint pain, disease related pain, post-surgical pain, or FND). Based in cognitive behavioral therapy, kids, teens, parents, and caregivers learn the science of why skills rooted in psychology can help, get the chance to practice many proven coping skills, gain social support, and develop a personalized plan for managing symptoms. Click here to find a workshop near you.
In addition to workshops, The Comfort Ability® Program offers free monthly community health chats, a teen podcast produced by the Comfort Ability Program Peer Advisory Board, downloadable tip sheets, and more! Check out the website for details.
Who Is This For
Kids, teens, and parents.
A Note About Keeping This Free
Good pain care should be a right, not a privilege.
We’ve spent our careers treating pain and medical anxiety, and we know that comfort and control come from putting the power where it belongs: in your hands. Everything here is free and open source by design. No parent should have to pay to learn how to get their child through a vaccine or a bad headache. No provider should have to hunt for what they need to do their job well. Hundreds of thousands of people have used Meg tools, and not one of them has ever been asked to pay.
But free still costs something.
We rely on the generosity of people like you to keep it that way. It takes about 1 in 30 of us, each giving $15 a month, to keep these tools available for free. If they helped you and you’re able, $15 a month keeps these resources available the next time you or another family need them.
Thanks for being here. Whether you are able to give or not, I’m so grateful a kid somewhere has you in their corner.
— Dr. Jody, Founder and CEO
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