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We attend the Home Instead national conference in January 2025 to extend the reach of Music Helps (UK) among home care providers across the UK.

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Developed in collaboration with staff from 7 federated primary schools in Hackney, we delivered a half-day workshop to explore how interactive music-making techniques can be used to embed music into their everyday early years curriculum.

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Music Helps (UK) is a free, interactive online training programme, designed to help caregivers understand the role of music for someone living with dementia and offering practical, music therapy-based techniques to enhance the care they provide. Following its successful pilot in 2024, Music Helps (UK) remains available to anyone working with, caring for or supporting individuals living with dementia.

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We returned to our Partner settings Hospice Ethiopia, FENAID and Lebeza Psychiatry Clinic to understand how effective was the newsletter created the year before and identify any future support needs.

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Our 15th delivery of this Distance Learning course and the 3nd year in partnership with Asociația “Sound Art E-Motion” and a new partnership with Asociația CoMusica. The course comprises a series of 7 monthly tutorials and written assignments, participation in an Intensive Study Weekend and a supervised Practical Assignment.

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We visited our Partner setting, Kshetra Assisted Living and Dementia Care Facility, who we collaborated with to develop and pilot Music Helps (India) to meet some of the course participants and beneficiaries and understand more about how music has become embedded into the daily care practices.

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We attended the Dementia Conference in Bangalore organised by Dementia India Alliance and presented to a room of 64 delegates about Music Helps (India) to inspire family caregivers and employed caregivers from service providers across India to enrol.

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Another group of 4 practitioners have been identified from the Music Therapy Center in Tbilisi to receive supervision from an international, professionally-trained Music Therapist, to continue to strengthen their provision of services for children with disabilities.

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Delivery of our Interactive Music-Making structured training for early years practitioners in London. Hosted by Pound Park Children’s Centre and delivered in association with Nordoff and Robbins, North London Music Therapy, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, and Quaggy Development Trust.

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This is the first newsletter we created for our Ethiopian Partners which celebrates their achievements with music by sharing some of their inspiring stories. The newsletter also provides ideas from Music Therapists to support the development of our Partners’ music practices.

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