Los Angeles news stations CBS Los Angeles, ABC 7 and Spectrum News 1 joined the Service Area 4 Peer Resource Center and Long Beach Mental Health for Drumming for Your Life sessions to highlight DMH programming. During March and April, the news stations visited to film staff and participants, highlighting how drumming is helping our clients.
As a DMH partner, the Drumming for Your Life Institute is a local nonprofit that uses the power of rhythm to help children, youth and adults in developing emotional, academic and social skills necessary to succeed. The two specific programs featured in the news stories were the Life Skills Drumming Program and Reading & Rhythm.
The Life Skills Drumming Program helps relieve stress and develop decision-making and problem-solving skills through drumming. The program also helps build emotional intelligence, community and self-confidence. The Reading & Rhythm program uses repetitive drumbeats to improve fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, word recognition and more.
The Service Area 4 Peer Resource Center was featured by CBS LA and Spectrum News 1, while Long Beach Mental Health was featured on ABC 7. View the CBS LA feature here. The rest were not made available online for viewing.
