Bethesda Children's Home
Description: Bethesda Children's Home is a staff secure residential treatment facility in Meadville, PA.   Its long history of serving children and families began more than 80 years ago. What started as a farm home for orphans, on 340 acres of land in Meadville, Pennsylvania, has now become one of the largest private children's services organizations in Northwestern Pennsylvania.
Project: Research - Creative Musical Expression Improves Quality of Life for At Risk Children and Adolescents
Location: Meadville, PA

The Cincinnati Music & Wellness Coalition
The Cincinnati Music & Wellness Coalition is the first community-wide recreational music-making coalition in the nation. The coalition was founded in January 2009 by Arlene de Silva, a professional in the field of aging. The mission of the coalition is to offer two evidence-based recreational music-making and wellness programs, Clavinova Connection and HealthRHYTHMS, to diverse populations in Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Coalition members consists of non-profit organizations serving the well-elderly, nursing home residents, retirement communities, adult day centers, senior centers, developmentally disabled individuals, and universities, physicians,
musicians, hospitals, the Asian Community Alliance, and the Fine Arts Fund.
For further information, please contact: Arlene de Silva at:arlene@facesinaging.org or 513-315-7393.
Project: Recreational music-making for special populations
Location: Cincinnati, OH

Daniel's Music Foundation
Description: Daniel's Music Foundation (DMF) is a nonprofit organization that provides free music programs to youth and adults with physical and cognitive disabilities in NYC. DMF's mission is to provide a comfortable, educational and social environment in which members can enjoy, learn and practice the joys of music together.  For the majority of the members, DMF programs are the only forum in which they may learn and enjoy music in a group setting and perform in front of their peers.  This opportunity allows them to reach achievable goals, nourishing their confidence and self-esteem.  DMF provides on-site, off-site and outreach programs that serve over 100 members throughout the city.
For further information, please contact Daniel and Ken Trush at 212.289.8912 or daniel@danielsmusic.org
Project: Recreational music-making for special populations
Location: New York City, New York

Fredericka Manor Retirement Community
Description: Fredericka Manor Retirement Community has a 100-year history of providing quality care to older adults in the greater San Diego area. As one of San Diego 'smost experienced and respected non-profit multi-level retirement communities, Fredericka Manor promotes whole-person wellness in independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing care settings on a secure24-acre campus.
Project: Clavinova Music Therapy Program for all residents
Location: Chula Vista ,CA

Meadville Medical Center - Oncology Wellness Institute
Description: Meadville Medical Center is a nationally recognized, award-winning community hospital.  Its Oncology Wellness Institute is a state-of-the-art comprehensive cancer center amalgamating the latest technologies with whole person strategies to ensure optimal patient care.
Project: Program & Research - to determine the benefits of RMM in individuals and their families facing the challenges of cancer.
Location: Meadville, PA

Meadville Middle School
Description: Meadville Middle School offers one of our nation's leading public school educational experiences for 7th and 8th graders.  Utilizing a team teaching strategy under the guidance of Rebecca Janes, Principal, this unique educational approach comprehensively focuses on the "whole child." 
Project: Program & Research - to determine the long-term benefits of a year-long controlled trial that integrates RMM into the educational curriculum.
Location: Meadville, PA

San Diego Center for Children
Description: San Diego Center for Children has become a leader in providing mental health services to children and families by offering a great selection of services.  Many of its services are contracted to the County of San Diego mental health services and to the many school districts in San Diego County. 
Project: Research - Creative Musical Expression Improves Quality of Life for At Risk Children and Adolescents
Location: San Diego, CA.

St. Agnes Medical Center
Description: St. Agnes Medical Center is one of the leading healthcare institutions in the US, having been named a Consumer Choice Award winner among the best hospitals in the country twelve years in a row – National Research Corporation (1996 – 2007)
Project: Program - offering the Clavinova Connection program to patients.
Location: Fresno, CA.

Trinity Center
Description: Trinity Center is an outgrowth of the community-oriented ministry of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.  As the oldest neighborhood center in Erie dedicated to youth, the agency is now a program of Bethesda Children's Home that provides drug and alcohol prevention services with an emphasis on education. 
Project: Research - Creative Musical Expression Through Mentoring Improves Quality of Life for At Risk Children and Adolescents
Location: Erie, PA

Wesbury United Methodist Retirement Community
Description: Wesbury United Methodist Retirement Community provides individualized proactive health care and life enrichment services to assist mature adults in maintaining their independence, dignity and spiritual wholeness in a secure, Christian environment.
Project: Programs - offering Clavinova Connection and Clavinova Sing-Alongs.  This is the site of the published burnout study (see Research).
Location: Meadville, PA

Windber Research Institute
Description: Department of Defense funded state-of-the-art genomic research laboratory
Project: Research - Recreational Music-Making Modulates the Human Stress Response: an Individualized Gene Expression Strategy for Cardiac Patients
Location: Windber, PA