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Music Helps (UK) is a free, interactive online training programme, designed to help caregivers understand the role of music for someone living with dementia and offering practical, music therapy-based techniques to enhance the care they provide. Following its successful pilot in 2024, Music Helps (UK) remains available to anyone working with, caring for or supporting individuals living with dementia.

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We returned to our Partner settings Hospice Ethiopia, FENAID and Lebeza Psychiatry Clinic to understand how effective was the newsletter created the year before and identify any future support needs.

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We visited our Partner setting, Kshetra Assisted Living and Dementia Care Facility, who we collaborated with to develop and pilot Music Helps (India) to meet some of the course participants and beneficiaries and understand more about how music has become embedded into the daily care practices.

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Another group of 4 practitioners have been identified from the Music Therapy Center in Tbilisi to receive supervision from an international, professionally-trained Music Therapist, to continue to strengthen their provision of services for children with disabilities.

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This is the first newsletter we created for our Ethiopian Partners which celebrates their achievements with music by sharing some of their inspiring stories. The newsletter also provides ideas from Music Therapists to support the development of our Partners’ music practices.

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8 of our previous Distance Learning Programme participants in Jordan attended a music support session held at Partner setting Al-Masar and delivered by Fabienne van Eck from Musicians Without Borders and Jordanian Music Therapist Hisham Alhadrab.

We donated new musical instruments to two Local Partners in Romania to replenish their musical instruments.

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We donated new local drums, called Kebero, to Lebeza Psychiatry Clinic and Gefersa Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre in Ethiopia to replenish and add to their set of musical instruments.

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The opportunity for supervision was offered to an identified group of 4 practitioners who were initially internally trained at the Music Therapy Center in Tbilisi. This is following the request of the center’s director, Teona Kacheishvili, who believes the involvement of her staff in supervision from an international, professionally-trained music therapist, will strengthen their provision of services.

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We offered 3 CPD events for early years practitioners to come together and share successes, troubleshoot, and pool resources. We also supported our UK Partners through regular email bulletins, sharing opportunities and new, tailored musical resources for our UK Partners working with people living with dementia and for those working with adults with learning disabilities.