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Increases attendance and engagement across YMCA programs and delivers a tangible outcome video for funders and marketing, driving positive youth-development outcomes.

We support youth development, attendance and engagement, positive youth outcomes, and program recruitment with the SEL books, keynotes, and the STEAM recording program.

FAQs

Straight answers.

Yes, on site or virtually. Recording and video production run as STEAM enrichment programs in an afterschool block or a camp project cycle. Associations searching for STEM enrichment programs near me across several sites usually standardize at the association level so the offering is the same from location to location.
The Psychological Effects of Music Youth Resource Books, music Programs, and recording or video production, on site or virtually. Directors looking for enrichment programs ideas or youth engagement activities ideas across multiple sites typically standardize at the association level so the offering is consistent.
Yes. STEAM enrichment through recording and video production, on site or virtually. For camps, STEAM based projects compress into a week with a finished piece by Friday. For afterschool, STEAM project based learning runs as a multi-week cycle.
Yes. Many Ys operate ASES, ELO-P, or 21st CCLC programs at school sites, and the material is used there the same way as in any expanded learning program — in a 30 to 45 minute enrichment block, led by program staff.
Yes. Music Programs and recording, built on the Psychological Effects of Music Youth Resource Books, on site or virtually. Associations running cultural enrichment programs across several sites usually standardize at the association level so the offering is consistent from location to location.
That is the more common purchase pattern. A regional or association-level order covering multiple sites gives you consistency across locations and a single invoice. Send your site list and per-site quantities.
Selected sections rather than a whole book, focused on peer connection. Campers keep their copies. Staff searching for SEL music activities usually want something for a rotation block rather than a full curriculum.
Yes, on the Psychological Effects of Music Youth Resource Books. Association-level training at the start of a program year is common given seasonal staffing. On site or virtually. That book is the only thing we train staff on.
Yes, both. It works as an afterschool program block over several weeks, or compressed into a camp project cycle where the group finishes a piece by the end of the session. Multi-site associations often book programming at one site first and expand once staff have seen it. Quoted separately from materials.
No. We send our own staff to run the programming. We do not train your staff to run it. Recording and production is a skill set, not a procedure. Trying to hand it off in a few hours would be like teaching a doctor to perform surgery in an afternoon — you would get a session that technically happened and a result nobody wants to hear. This is separate from the program staff training we offer on the books, which is a real service given seasonal staffing. Recording is delivered by our staff.
No. We are supplemental. We do not replace your SEL curriculum, your trauma-informed practice, or any program you already have in place. If you run a core SEL program, keep it — ours adds a music-based component alongside it. If you have trauma-informed protocols, training, and referral pathways, those stay in force exactly as they are. Nothing in our material substitutes for them, and our facilitators are not a substitute for your clinical, counseling, or behavioral staff. Your association's program model and any national curriculum you use stay in place.
Yes. The Psychological Effects of Music interactive Youth Summit is built for exactly this — a family engagement event where parents and children participate together rather than sitting through a presentation. That is the difference that matters for attendance. Families come to an event where something happens; they skip an information night. The session is music-driven and participatory, so a parent who speaks little English and a fourth grader are in it on the same terms. Family programming is core to the Y's model, and this works as an association-level or single-site family event.
Yes. The Psychological Effects of Music interactive Youth Summit works for association staff development, all-staff meetings, and community events. Given seasonal staffing, several associations book it at the start of a program year as both training and kickoff.
Quote, W-9, and invoice on request. Purchase orders and card accepted. If the program is funded through a school district contract, we can invoice to match that structure.

How this program runs

Same SIWM work. Built for YMCA.

Start with the social emotional learning books. Add a keynote. Bring a recording program when you want participants writing and performing — we produce the song and video.

CASEL 5 SEL competencies; National Core Arts (Music/Media Arts); Common Core ELA writing & speaking/listening; CTE Arts/A-V pathways.

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