News and Resources

We form strong bonds with the young people in our programs, sometimes in ways we don’t even realize. In light of that fact, we’re grateful for this personal essay by Jason Madison, a seventh-year member of Richmond, California’s RYSE Youth Center.

For all our focus on building mental health awareness into our curricula, organizational templates vary. If you’re thinking big about your own program, the Department of Sound, a Sacramento-based organization that trains youth in music production and podcasting, has created their own approach: a five-year plan called the Sound Mind Initiative.

Professor Toshiyuki Yamada of Japan’s Kyushu Otani Junior College, one of body percussion’s pioneers, will present his work at the University of Oxford in March.

Registration is now open for the 2023 El Sistema USA® National Symposium, taking place at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 9–11.

The Lewis Prize for Music has just announced their 2023 awardees, allocating more than $2 million to Creative Youth Development organizations across the U.S. and its territories.

Are you working as an artist or cultural professional in Europe and need support to implement a project with another organization within Creative Europe?

Professional development opportunities are essential for so many reasons, but one in particular often gets lost: they help keep creativity alive in our work.

The University of Tasmania’s Music and Resilience Project takes a sociological approach to studying resilience among young people, framing it as a model for ensemble work.

How often do you come across published research that shares findings through multiple art forms? Project YouSound, a research initiative that explores how music can support the social inclusion of refugee and migrant youth in Europe, has published the first of a series of zines that examine different programs’ approaches.

Thanks to an $8.2 million contribution from the provincial government, El Sistema New Brunswick is closer to its goal of serving 10,000 children across their many programs.