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As mental health challenges among children reach crisis levels, Sing Up Foundation is launching research to inform its State of Play report on how singing supports children and young people's mental health and wellbeing. The Foundation's Practitioner Survey (https://bit.ly/SUFSurvey2026), live this week, will gather insights from teachers, music leaders, mental health professionals, and youth workers internationally to build this picture of current practice, challenges, and

The mental health crisis among children and we need your help to understand the full picture and learn how we can support you in your work.

Sing Up Foundation is today publishing a new report, ‘Then the dream started to be more’: Singing and Music-Making with Refugee Children...

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Sign up to be the first to know when this brand new report is available. The research conducted by Dr Hala Jaber, Dr Fran Garry and Professor Helen Phelan from the University of Limerick's Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and commissioned by Sing Up Foundation will include a literature review and collection of case studies, interviews and recommendations for further development of work in this area. The research is supported by the British Council through Sing Up Founda

See the full schedule of our two-day online conference 'Singing for Mental Health and Wellbeing: Spotlight on Children and Young People'. Run in partnership with Music for Good and the Singing for Health Network, the conference will run on 26 May and 30 June 2023 and recordings will be made available for all ticket holders. Book your tickets now - there are one and two-day tickets available. https://bit.ly/SHNBookCYPTicket Full schedule - May 26th - Focus on inclusion and wo

Sing Up Foundation, Singing for Health Network and Music for Good are partnering to deliver an online conference.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 December 2022 Sing Up Foundation appoints a team of researchers from the University of Limerick's Irish World Academy of Music and Dance to conduct a research review on singing with young refugees Young singers from the British Council’s World Voice project in Greece performing in a celebration concert. Sing Up Foundation has appointed Dr Hala Jaber, Dr Fran Garry and Professor Helen Phelan from the University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy of Music

We want to know about your experiences of children and young people's mental health and wellbeing. As part of our work, we're looking for your views and experiences of children and young people's mental health and wellbeing. If you work with children and young people either in school (primary or secondary) or out of school, we'd love to hear your views. Teachers play an important role in identifying and supporting their pupils' emotional wellbeing and we're interested to know