In recent news, the Heather on Earth Music Foundation has given a grant of $34,000 to the Winthrop-University Hospital to create a Music Therapy Program for pediatric patients. The idea behind the new program is to benefit children in Winthrop’s Hagedorn Pediatric Inpatient Center and its Cancer Center for Kids.
The new program will be part of the Winthrop Child Life Program which works to minimize children’s anxiety and fear during their hospital experience. As AnnMarie DiFrancesca, Director of Winthrop’s Child Life Program explains, “The addition of a music therapy program will provide a unique alternative coping mechanism through which children may express their emotions, cope with their illness, and master their own hospital experience.”
The Heather on Earth Music Foundation is grateful to be able to provide this service, thanks to their many donors including Corey Ribotsky and others.
