Mission and vision

mission

Our mission is to use interactive music therapy interventions to facilitate relatedness, communication and thinking while removing physical and cognitive barriers that prevent children with developmental challenges from engaging in essential social interactions and life processes.

Vision

That all people will be able to navigate the world in ways appropriate to their potential.

Core Values

Music and the relational experiences intrinsic to musical-play are therapy when applied clinically. Interactive musical experiences can help a child with developmental challenges in many ways; fulfill the need to interact, socialize, communicate, achieve, learn and improve physicality. Musical-play can provide the unique experience of integrating multiple sensory stimuli simultaneously, facilitating self-regulation and sensory modulation. Musical-play can also generate effective interactions that foster reciprocity and creative thinking.

Using Music to Change Lives

Programs at The Rebecca Center for Music Therapy at Molloy College are aimed at discovering the unique potential in every child through interactive musical-play, in order to facilitate engagement, relatedness, communication and thinking. In creating a non-judgemental, musically and emotionally supportive therapeutic atmosphere, the child can doscover emotional and behavioral self-regulation through engaging in interactive musical-play.

The Rebecca Center for Music Therapy began in 1999 when certified music therapist John Carpente created Music for Living, an organization providing music therapy services to children with special needs and to persons afflicted with HIV/AIDS and substance abuse. In February of 2000, Music for Living developed an on-site, out-patient music therapy clinic in Melville, New York servicing special needs' children ages 3-15 with various disabilities.

In 2001, Music for Living incorporated as a non-profit organization and became "The Rebecca Center, Inc." and in 2002 received its 501(c) 3 non-profit status. In June 2002, The Rebecca Center for Music Therapy dramatically expanded its services by opening a music therapy clinic on the campus of Molloy College in Rockville Centre, New York. The Molloy College facility is the first music therapy center in Nassau County.

Since 2002 The Rebecca Center, through outreach and its on-site clinic, has served hundreds of special needs people throughout Long Island and New York.

For more information, please email us at TRCinfo@molloy.edu.