Music Therapy Impact on Population Health: RI Experience and Beyond
What is the role for music, and other arts, in addressing population health?
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Course Information
- Audience: Nurses, community
health workers, public health professionals, organization leaders/directors,
related disciplines
- Format: Webinar
- Date/Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:00 - 1:00 PM EST
- Price: Free
- Length: 2 part series, 1 hour each
- Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hour. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hour is 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: PM1131137_05132020.
If you are not seeking CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course. - Competencies: Community
Partnership Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings:
Building a Sustainable Arts-Based Health Program: the Hands in Harmony Experience
- Supplemental materials: Course Schedule and PowerPoint
- Pre-requisites: None
About this Webinar
This webinar will provide an introduction to music therapy. The Hands in Harmony population wheel will be paired with infographics to provide an overview on the impact of evidence based music therapy interventions to address health outcomes as well as how to integrate music/music therapy in population health.
What you'll learn
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the role of music therapy in health and behavioral health
- Discuss lessons learned from the Hands in Harmony Story in developing self-sustaining arts-based services to increase accessibility to music therapy at the state level
- Explore and discuss the role of music in addressing social health determinants applicable to populations in the Hands in Harmony population wheel
- Integrate one applicable approach to increase the impact of music in your personal and/or professional life
Subject Matter Expert
Nicole O’Malley
MA, MT-BC, LPMT, NMT/FExecutive Director/President
Neurologic Music Therapist
Hands in Harmony
Music Therapy Faculty-University of Rhode Island
Nicole O'Malley, Executive Director and Licensed Neurologic Music Therapist founded Hands in Harmony in 2003 after receiving her BM in Music Therapy from Anna Maria College. She completed training in Neurologic Music Therapy in 2007 and her Fellowship in Neurologic Music Therapy in 2016. Nicole received her MA in music therapy through Berklee college of music focusing on researching the neurobiology of the role of music in the stress and relaxation response. Nicole received level 1 NICU training in 2017. She serves as the chair of the Government Relations Committee for the New England Region American Music Therapy Association and chair of the music therapy task force of Rhode Island throughout the passing of the music therapy licensure in RI. She is music therapy faculty at URI and is passionate about interdisciplinary opportunities, increasing impact through population health, and data collection.
Registration
Select the Enroll Me button below to register for this webinar. If you have any trouble accessing the webinar, contact support@nephtc.org.
Acknowledgement: This project is/was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31685 “Regional Public Health Training Center Program.” This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.
* Yale School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice, a New England Public Health Training Center partner, is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. All CHES credit inquiries are managed by YSPH