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Today's youth face a nationwide crisis regarding how their educational, emotional, and social needs are met. More important than that is how those needs are met.

As a result, these young people face a variety of challenges, including

♪ Permanently depressed future earnings
♪ Anxiety brought upon by Covid, peer pressure, or other harmful, threatening life experiences
♪ Becoming pessimistic about their future or existence and purpose in life
♪ Loss of motivation to do activities they usually enjoy
♪ Entrapment in perpetual cycles of poverty and or depression
♪ Increased participation in, or risk of becoming victimized by crime
♪ Poor mental and physical health
♪ Emotional and Mental Well-being
♪ Stress
♪ A feeling of sadness or hopelessness
♪ Withdrawal from friends and family
♪ Lack of enthusiasm or motivation
♪ Suicidal thoughts and tendencies

Life Through Music is doing its part to address these sobering statistics by helping youth turn their passion for Music into professions on stage and behind the scenes. Our programs help youth passionate about Music develop skills to secure employment in Music, related fields, and other areas of interest they wish to pursue, leading them to promise futures.

The purposes of LTM will be to provide activities and services virtual and in-person to aid our teens and youth by offering classes, support, and programs to help with the following social, emotional, and academic learning:

♪ To support, teach, and reach youth with some form/type of Trauma (CTS, Complex, Developmental, or Toxic Stress)

♪ To provide youth with positive learning experiences

♪ Provide and Building Empathy

♪ To provide support to our youth with a suicidal intention

♪ To provide mentoring to develop life, social, and emotional support

♪ To help our students develop study skills and habits for success

♪ To provide academic support (IEP/504 plans), enrichment activities, character development, skill-building, and performance opportunities

♪ To build outstanding citizens and prepare them to be tomorrow's leaders

♪ To afford members exceptional opportunities to learn and create lifelong memories

♪ To develop strong, well-rounded, healthy, confident, and capable young people and adults

♪ To foster cultural exploration in the form of Music, travel, and cultural exchange

♪ To introduce the college experience and create transitional opportunities

♪ To talk less and listen more in conversations, encouraging adolescents to express themselves

♪ To provide and promote at-risk youth's healthy social, cultural, and academic development through education in Music and mentoring for life.

♪ To provide opportunities for students to excel in music studies outside of their regular school timetable

♪ To learn, build, and develop social skills

♪ Provide support for youth affected emotionally by Covid-19

♪ Be honest, and don't shield children from the information. Acknowledge that you may be scared, too, but can get through the difficult times together

♪ To teach and develop Self-Awareness

♪ To teach and develop Self-Management

♪ To teach and develop social awareness

♪ To teach and develop Relationship Skills

♪ To teach and develop Goal-Directed Behavior

♪ To teach and develop Personal Responsibility

♪ To teach and develop Decision-Making

♪ To teach and develop Optimistic Thinking

♪ To teach and develop Responsible decision making

Some resources, supporting articles

Music and health- Harvard Health Publishing

Reviewing the Effectiveness of Music Interventions in Treating Depression