Children's Music Fund Donates Instruments to Miller Children's and Women's Hospital in Long Beach

Children's Music Fund brings More Music to Hospitals!

Laurel Terreri, MA, MT-BC
 with Lesley Holmes, Executive Director, CMF
and Rita Goshert, MA CCLS Clinical Operations manager
at Miller CHildren's and Women's Hospital 

July 24th, 2015, Long Beach California -
More healing through music will happen in the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Miller Children's and Women's Hospital thanks to a recent donation of instruments from The Children's Music Fund (CMF) on Friday July 24th, 2015.

CMF donated a REMO RBL Kit which includes a Lullaby Ocean Disc Drum and a Gato Box. The drum emulates the intrauterine sound environment (womb sounds) which promotes sleep in premature babies. This drum was developed by Remo for use in the "First Sounds: Rhythm Breath and Lullaby" Program.*

CMF provides 4 hours of music therapy a week to Miller Children's and Women's Hospital by a board certified Music Therapist with specific NICU certification.

Children's Music Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides musical instruments and music therapy for children with life altering illnesses and chronic conditions and supports research on the effects of music therapy.

For more information or to make a tax deductible donation please visit www.thecmf.org.

Laurel Terreri, MA, MT-BC,  Rita Goshert, MA CCLS Clinical Operations manager
and CMF music therapist Brooke Tittinger MT-BC, at Miller CHildren's and Women's Hospital 

* First Sounds: Rhythm, Breath and Lullaby is a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Music Therapy training being developed internationally. The program is founded on evidence-based research led by an integrative team of doctors, nurses and music therapists in the Mid-Atlantic Region. The program was developed by Joanne Loewy, DA, LCAT, MT-BC at Beth Israel Medical Center

Children's Music Fund Expands Services in Children's Hospital Orange County

Orange, CA (June 2015) – Children’s Music Fund (CMF) expanded music therapy services into another hospital this month (Children’s Hospital Orange County) in order to serve the tiniest of patients in need of the healing power of music.  For two hours a week, a CMF Board Certified Music Therapist with specialty certification in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), will provide music therapy to infants to help with their healing needs.

Two of the instruments used in the NICU are the REMO Ocean Disc, meant to replicate the whooshing sounds of the uterus, and the Gato Box, which the therapist can play to provide rhythm to mimic and regulate the infants’ breathing or heart rate.  CMF Chairman of the Board, Ara Oghoorian, CFA, CFP® adds, “As these little warriors fight for their lives, music will give them a peaceful space to fight on.”

“Premature babies respond amazingly well to positive stimuli. These include a parent’s voice, rhythmic and soft melodic music, and human touch. These are all things music therapy can provide,” says CMF founder and President Dr. Raffi Tachdjian. “At CMF, we help bring music into the hospital.”

About Children’s Music Fund
CMF is a Los Angeles based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide musical instruments and music therapy to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with chronic conditions and life-altering illnesses and to support research on the medical benefits of music therapy. CMF was established in 2002 by Dr. Raffi Tachdjian, an allergist and former director of the pediatric pain clinic at David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA. Research shows that music therapy can help lesson the burden of pain, sadness, anxiety and loneliness, and create opportunities for self-expression and social communication. CMF currently provides music therapy in eight hospitals, and in 2015 has provided services and instruments to over 750 children.

Contact: Lesley Holmes, Executive Director

(310) 428-0589 www.thecmf.org Lesley@thecmf.org