April 10-15, 2026 is the 4th annual World Music Therapy Week (WMTW)! Established by the World Federation of Music Therapy in 2023, this year’s WMTW focus is on how music brings about connections. Trauma fundamentally disconnects people from themselves and others, and music is unique in its ability to simultaneously connect all parts of the brain. We have seen over …
How Music Therapy Started at Sparks for Success!
March is National Music Therapy Month! Sparks was founded in 2016 to help children of inmates and other forced parental separation to develop important social and emotional skills through music therapy to address the barriers that parental separation brings. To celebrate 10 years of Sparks providing music therapy, we’d like to share with you the story of how the music …
