Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Breaks Ground on New Campus to Expand Music Therapy and Education

• By: | Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
• October 23rd, 2025
• accessibility, community engagement, creative arts, emotional resilience, inclusion, mental health, music education, music therapy
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Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (BKCM), a 128-year-old nonprofit transforming lives and building community through music, has announced that it has broken ground today on a new 12,000-square-foot campus at One Prospect Park West. The state-of-the-art facility will double BKCM’s capacity to deliver...

Destigmatizing Mental Illness: Music Therapy in the Clinical Outpatient Realm

• By: Ariel Avissar, MA, MT-BC, LCAT Joel Layton, BA, CPS South Beach Psychiatric Center
• April 18th, 2023
• mental health stigma, music therapy, psychotherapy, Spring 2023 Issue, stigma, stigma reduction, treatment
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Destigmatizing mental illness through the power of music in clinical mental health treatment therapy combined with peer support can be beneficial to achieving transformation within the current paradigm in mental health. The effects of stigma are felt most by disregarded communities who tend to be...