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Make Music Not Madness
Through a grant award from the Department of Education, the Best Friends Foundation developed an outreach program activity, "Make Music Not Madness". Everyone who works with adolescents is aware of the impact of music and its ability to affect adolescent behavior. During the 2003 – 2004 school year, the Foundation piloted "Make Music Not Madness" – a series of school assemblies designed to present the positive benefits reject sex until marriage, drug and alcohol use. The Best Friends Foundation’s programs operate within school communities. Over the years, we have discovered the promotion of risk behavior through music is an issue of concern among parents and educators. As a result, Best Friends Foundation developed "Make Music Not Madness" to raise the current standards of behavior in our school communities. These school assemblies are peer-involved, appealing musical productions that have had a significant impact during the pilot year on adolescent students in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
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Objectives for "Make Music Not Madness"
- To stress the implicit negativity in certain contemporary music and to highlight the enriching and inspiring themes of positive lyrics during a 45-minute show.
- To offer a valuable source of information to help elementary, middle and high school students make good decisions in their social activities.
- To provide Best Friends / Best Men participants an opportunity to be role models to their classmates by showing their commitment to positive music and positive choices.
- To show examples of how television and music can affect a person’s thoughts, actions, emotions, values and health.
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