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M.O.T.I.V.E

Music Opportunities To Incarcerated Voices Everywhere

Healing Through Music

Empowering Incarcerated Voices, Preventing Youth Incarceration

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Our Mission

Empowering Incarcerated Voices

To give youth, incarcerated individuals, their families, and victims an outlet to express childhood and adult traumas through music.

Youth & Young Adult Incarceration

1000+

Crimes Committed 

Non-fatal Shootings

750+

140+

Burglaries

Juveniles were sent to Adult Court

-Detroit, MI 2022

The Power of Music Therapy

Many people don’t realize the therapeutic power that music has, especially on our youth and young adults. Music has been proven to positively impact youth by boosting their mood, fostering self-expression, enhancing creativity, improving cognitive skills, promoting social connection, providing a means to manage emotions, and contributing to a sense of identity,

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Incarcerated Story-Telling

Through this unmatched power of musical therapy M.O.T.I.V.E uniquely incorporates incarcerated adult stories of childhood trauma, adversity, and the challenges that ultimately led them to incarceration. Thier music, which is recorded over the phone then mixed and mastered by an engineer, then becomes the core data to be critically analyzed by youth/young adults who may be at-risk for incarceration.

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Healing and Prevention

M.O.T.I.V.E combines the proven healing method of music with encouragement and real-life incarcerated storytelling, to discourage and decrease youth and young adult incarceration and recidivism.

Our Programs

Ultimately, because of music’s limitless reach, M.O.T.I.V.E’s produced music between the incarcerated adult and youth will provide holistic healing for:

The incarcerated individual, youth and young adults, the victims of crime, and the incarcerated individual's family. 

MOTIVE MUSIC THERAPY

For The Incarcerated

MOTIVE MUSIC THERAPY

For The Incarcerated "In The Mind"

MOTIVE CRITICAL LISTENING

Workshops

Impact Stories

Voices of Transformation

Explore the transformative impact of our music therapy programs through the stories and experiences of individuals who have found healing and hope through MOTIVE.

Our Supporters

Join Our Cause

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