What better way to understand the benefits of Music Therapy, than experiencing it for yourself.

Music heals, comforts and brings us together. So gather your family and friends and try this fun songwriting activity by our Music Therapist, Jenna Bollard. You’ll enjoy this new way to create your favorite music. It might even inspire you to become a songwriter.

What you will need:

• Pick your three favorite songs
• Print the lyrics for each
• Pens
• Blank sheets of paper

Now, watch the video for the ‘how to’ instructions for Music Mash Up Songwriting. Enjoy your Music Therapy session! Let us know how it goes. Post your Music Mash Up Song on Instagram and tag @thecmforg. We will feature it and you in our story.

Since 2002, Children’s Music Fund has provided children with chronic conditions and life-altering illnesses healing through Music Therapy. All sessions are sponsored by our wonderful supporters, so we may help sick children and their families in their time of need.

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Our young patient used poetry to express his emotions about coping with a chronic-illness and shared his personal thoughts with Sebu during their music session. Together, Sebu helped our CMF Kid to turn his poem into lyrics, then wrote the music to make it into a song. They finished the session with a one-of-a-kind music recording and a memory to last a life time for our CMF Kid. Sebu is now planning to release the single. Remarkable act of kindness and demonstration of how music heals. Thank you Sebu!

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Children’s Music Fund supporter, actress Minnie Driver, talks about the benefits of music therapy for children managing a chronic or life-altering illness.

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Children’s Music Fund Helps Children Heal Through Music With New Music Therapy Cart at White Memorial

Children’s Music Fund joins healthcare providers and administration from Adventist Health White Memorial to show how board-certified music therapists use state-of-the-art music carts equipped with child-friendly instruments and a mobile recording studio for therapy sessions. White Memorial is the first to receive one of five music carts, designed by Children’s Music Fund and funded by the Water Buffalo Club, to support in-hospital music therapy sessions for underserved and chronically-ill children at their bedside or in group sessions.

CMF Founder & President, Dr. Raffi Tachdjian, and CMF Music Therapy Coordinator, Jana Skrien Koppula, were recently featured on abc7’s Circle of Health along with Chairman of Pediatrics at White Memorial, Dr. Anthony Moretti.

In this segment, Dr. Tachdjian speaks about the importance and power of music therapy along with Dr. Moretti, emphasizing music therapy’s physiological effects in healing, and how music can be better integrated into medical practice to defeat pain, anxiety and fear in patients of all ages.

For more information and updates on Children’s Music Fund and our mission of healing through music, please join our mailing list or find out how to get involved right here at theCMF.org

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“When You Listen To Music, You’re Never Alone” Article

Music: “Find Me” by Sandra Zorrilla
Production & Editing: Denzel Garcia
Copywriting & Direction: Josh Pineda

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Music: “Illuminate” by Shana Halligan
Production & Editing: Denzel Garcia
Copywriting & Direction: Josh Pineda

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