Singers & Songwriters of the Jewish Home of San Francisco perform their song "I'm 100 Year Old" with Judith-Kate Friedman (project director/guitar) and Daniel Hoffman (violin) at the Art of Aging festival.
Songwriting Works™ Educational Foundation
is a 501c3 non-profit charitable organization.
• Constituent-led - SW is guided by an advisory
council of elders from the fields of music, medicine, brain health, aging, education, and social innovation.
• Evidence-based - SW partners with researchers
and advocates to create programs, evaluate impacts and study the demonstrated health and social benefits of music-making and SW's model methodology.
• Award-winning - SW is the recipient of the 2010 Rosalinde Gilbert Caregiving Legacy award, 2008 Society for the Arts in Healthcare Salder International Healing Arts award, 2007 MetLife/American Society on Aging MindAlert awards, and a grant from the National Endownment for the Arts.
Welcome!
SONGWRITING WORKS™ EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION changes lives through music.
Our Mission is to:
RESTORE HEALTH AND COMMUNITY
THROUGH THE POWER OF SONG
READ THE LATEST in
our winter 2011 newsletter
Each year Songwriting Works:
• Engages hundreds of elders, older adults and families in hands-on songwriting and performance using an internationally recognized method proven to restore health and community.
• Facilitates songwriting with active and frail folks including those who have Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, and their loved ones.
• Lifts the voices of those who most need to be seen, heard, honored and brought into public awareness.
• Provides training and consultations for music,
arts
and health practitioners and caregivers seeking to bring the power of song "best practice approaches"
to their clients and family members.
• Offers programs and publications internationally. Current long-term projects are on-going on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula
and in San Francisco.
Read about our Vision and Areas of expertise.