Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!  We have so much to be thankful for! At All Kids Need Music, a non-profit organization that helps children, we are so grateful that our therapeutic music lessons are assisting abused, traumatized, and at risk children heal and recover lost ground in their young lives.  It is absolutely amazing to witness the transformations that occur when these children are given the tools they need to process their grief.  It truly does help level the playing field in a situation where the deck is totally stacked against them for their future.

What Our Program Does for Abused & At Risk Children

Our therapeutic music program helps children heal and grow by:
  • Reducing depression and anxiety.
  • Improving cognitive functioning.
  • Increasing academic success.
  • Growing self-esteem.
  • Developing personal responsibility.

National Adoption Month is a wonderful time of year where many children are adopted.  However, the children who are not chosen for adoption grieve because they perceive that no one wants them.  And at Thanksgiving, the majority of them are eating a meal in a group home with other wounded children and one or two group home staff members.  It is a very painful reminder that they do not have families to love them. 

At our non-profit organization that helps children, we believe this must change. At Christmas, let’s give these wounded, heartbroken, and unchosen children the gift of music and mentorship. Let’s show them that people do care, and then prove it.  Together, through the gift of their very own musical instrument and therapeutic music lessons, consistent mentoring, and loving encouragement, we can help them heal and change their futures.

Please join me in proving that they are valuable, and definitely not unwanted or unloved.  Join me in helping them heal.  No gift is too small.  We have to invest in them now so they will have a future tomorrow.   Please help.

Serving the children together,

 

 

President/CEO
All Kids Need Music

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