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

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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.

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