In Your Community Hotlines Lucile Packard Children's Hospital offers several community hotlines for parents, teens and children. Our pediatric nurses are ready to answer your questions about children's health, growth and development, safety and behavior. The pediatric nurses can also help you choose a physician that fits the needs of your child as well as provide information about special resources available for children in your own community. PIRC nurses also welcome questions from grandparents, day care providers, teachers and others in the community who care for children.
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Teenage Health Resource Line Now teens can use their very own toll free telephone line to get immediate answers to health related questions. All calls are confidential. KidCall, a toll-free telephone service, is for children throughout the Bay Area who are home by themselves after school. Volunteers, supported by our pediatric nurses, provide comfort, help with homework, play games and ease loneliness and fears for children over the telephone. Callers remain anonymous.