 The organization offers a series of child life-related publications through its online bookstore, and publishes a quarterly professional newsletter, the "ACLP Bulletin", as well a monthly e-newsletter, "Child Life News Monthly".ACLP also administers the examination-based Child Life Certification program.The Association for Child Life Professionals traces its origins to the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals (ACCH), which was founded in 1967 by a group of early child life workers, who recognized the need for a large, multidisciplinary organization to effect positive change in hospital environments for children and families.