Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA): Parents & Kids

Parental Advisory

Members of the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) understand their responsibility in helping parents identify music with explicit lyrics.

In a perfect world, parents, teachers and members of the community at large would embrace their own responsibility of attending to the construction of moral shields for children, but we know that this cannot always be the case...

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Listen Up 2!

In September 2003, Canada's music industry updated its popular contribution to how kids learn about the artists' experience, careers in the music business and the value of music to the social and economic landscape.

Some 10,000 Listen Up 2 video packages have been shipped to schools across the country. "Music plays such an important part of young people's lives...

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Additional Information

The Coalition For Music Education in Canada

The Coalition?s mission is to raise the awareness and understanding of the role that music plays in Canadian culture and to advocate the contribution that Music Education makes in the lives of all Canadians.
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Band Aid

Band Aid is a CARAS Music Education program initiative designed to further music education in Canadian schools by providing grants to schools whose music programs are in need of funding in the hopes that students will be able to reach their potential.
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Rush the Vote

Rush the Vote is dedicated to fostering political awareness in Canadian youth.
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Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund

Promotes music therapy in Canada, supports music therapy research projects, funds music therapy development projects and provides instruments or equipment to assist existing programs.
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Student Alliance for School Songwriters (S.A.S.S.)

The mission of S.A.S.S. is to build a network of supportive peers and mentors, invite students to express what is important to them, to offer performance opportunities and guidance in the art of songwriting, and to encourage young people to change their world through love and music.
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