USING MUSIC TO EDUCATE, MOTIVATE, & INSPIRE PEOPLE IN RECOVERY FROM LIFE CHALLENGES

INSTRUMENTS OF HEALING'S
"HELP WHEN WE NEED IT MOST"
FUNDRAISER

We are writing to ask if you might be able to donate $20 to support Instruments of Healing. Our nonprofit organization serves as a musical lifeline for some of our most vulnerable people in these times when so many of us are also feeling vulnerable.

Maybe you’ve been dealing with increased uncertainty, anxiety or stress - and maybe when you’ve felt that way, you did something really simple to help relieve it: you played some music.

If so – you know first-hand the power of Instruments of Healing.

Instruments of Healing (IoH) has a simple mission: we offer interactive musical experiences that inspire people in recovery from mental health and substance use challenges. For the past 8 years, our organization has been changing lives by giving people dealing with these serious life challenges a chance to express themselves and make positive connections through music.

IoH programs are usually in person, at behavioral health treatment facilities and wellness & recovery centers.

However, during the past 3 months, we have quickly pivoted to virtual music wellness programming. Unfortunately, insurance doesn’t pay for the virtual programming at the treatment programs we regularly serve – so our sources of revenue, like so many others, have dried up.

Every $20 donation pays for one hour of virtual music wellness programming – that’s one hour when Instruments of Healing participants can reap the important benefits of making music.

During IoH’s virtual music wellness programs, participants have the opportunity to sing songs that are meaningful to them, play their own instruments for others, express their deepest feelings through song, and…..forget the difficulties facing them while they make music together as a cohesive group. For these participants in recovery from life challenges, taking part in these virtual music programs is not just something they do for fun – it’s a survival tool during COVID-19.

Now – when Instruments of Healing’s revenue stream is most threatened – we are needed more than ever.

So I hope that, if your current circumstances allow, you’ll make this $20 donation by clicking the button below.

If you want to learn more, please check out the video above, or explore this website.

IoH'S PHASE 2 RE-OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT

As many areas of Maryland are now in Phase 2 of re-opening, IoH will be doing limited on-site programming starting July 1, 2020. We will be partnering with all venues to ensure that we are in compliance with their safety, hygiene, and social distancing plans - as well as implementing our own sanitization process for all program participants, instruments, and equipment. IoH will also continue to offer the option of virtual programming on Zoom for those venues who prefer a virtual medium. Please contact us at 301-648-5235 if you or your program are interested in either form of musical programming.

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IoH would also like to thank The Phase Foundation for helping to make our programming possible.

FIND OUT ABOUT IoH BY WATCHING THIS VIDEO

WHAT DOES IOH DO?

Instruments of Healing is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, with the mission of creating interactive musical experiences that inspire
our peers in their recovery from mental health and substance use challenges. The programs presented by IoH include discussion about using music in recovery, introduction to new instruments, instrumental experimentation, group jamming, solo singing, sing-alongs, and "musical peer support." This unique mobile peer-run, peer-based organization brings a range of professional-grade musical instruments for our program participants to play during the many programs we give throughout Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, and beyond. During the programs, our participants lend each other a unique form of musical peer support that is non-judgmental, safe, encouraging, and supportive. Our peers teach each other, share their skills and talents, listen attentively to each other perform, and bond together over music. Confidence and self-esteem are consequently fostered during the IoH music-making experience, moods and spirits are lifted, and skills acquired are often used and transferred to help people in their daily wellness.

For the past six years, Dr. Alicia Lucksted at the University of Maryland has helped IoH to develop ways to measure and track the success of our program in helping peers with their recovery process. In particular, we have focused on the realms of personal growth, use of music as a daily wellness tool, and mood improvement. The results over the years have consistently indicated that our organization is making a significant difference and impact on helping peers in the Maryland and DC regions in their personal wellness and recovery through the use of music. Would you like to find out how to make this happen for you, or bring the IoH program to the behavioral health program/s you attend or work for?

IF YOU WOULD LIKE To learn more, CLICK HERE

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IoH ON THE AIRWAVES.....

IoH is proud to announce that our co-founders and main staff members, Andy Goldenson and Sabrina Schram, were interviewed by ElevatedRadioFM, an internet radio station from Long Island (New York), on Friday, June 14th, 2019. An archived recording of the interview has been posted on their website at:

https://elevatedradiofm.com/shows-archive/andrew-goldenson-06-14-19/

Please share this information with anyone you think would be interested in learning more about IoH and how we use music to help in the wellness & recovery of our peers.

A FEW OF OUR FAVORITE THINGS....

From left to right, top to bottom: A very generously donated Pearl Reference 6-piece rack drum set, a selection of our brass instruments on display (all generously donated), two signs made for IoH by the clients at the Mosaic Belcamp PRP location on our 1-year anniversary of musical programming with them, and our IoH velcro board display that we bring to conferences and health fairs. As Julie Andrews once famously sang...."These are a few of our favorite things......"