Overcoming Through Music

Overcoming Through Music creative youth music programs advance outcomes for Fort Wayne-area disadvantaged and at-risk youth, helping them embrace and activate their voice, make sense of the world they live in, and build important skills that they need to thrive. By investing in young people through music we believe we will see a marked improvement in education, civic engagement, interpersonal communication, and ultimately financial health in our communities.

With music as the motivating catalyst, Overcoming Through Music develops and inspires the behaviors and critical life and learning skills disadvantaged youth need to have successful, empowered lives. Through transformative artistic experiences in music, we promote positivity, creativity, education, scholarship providing a vehicle for at-risk and disadvantaged youth to apply the skills they learn through mastery in the arts to academic, critical thinking and real-world experiences.

 Overcoming Through Music envisions a world where young people have equitable access to high-quality music education experiences that feed their spirit, honor them as young people, and broaden their horizons.