KEYS CORP

Our wish is for a cure for cancer, but until then, we are on a mission to improve the quality of life of children battling cancer throughout their battle, celebrating in their victories, lifting them up through the tough days and supporting their families after loss with love, hope, music and always...smiles!

Goal #1: To provide free or affordable music therapy services for children battling cancer, serious illnesses and disabilities and their siblings.
Goal #2: To give our KEYS kids and their families a break from cancer treatment to enjoy time together as a family, creating memorable moments and precious memories.
Goal #3: To celebrate and lift up a KEYS kid with their very own live concert through our Monday Night Smile Concerts or Backyard Concert at their home!
Goal #4: To share our music therapy services with children with disabilities, schools, nursing homes, Alzheimer patients, breast cancer patients and those in need of healing in our community.
Goal #5: Create as many smiles as possible!

Our strategy is three-fold...

1) Outreach - to provide free music-based patient support programs to children battling cancer & serious illnesses, and their siblings.

2) Education - to provide the training, resources and tools parents and medical staff need to be able to implement music in the care of children they serve.

3) Advocacy - to raise awareness of the benefits of music making, music education and music therapy.

The KEYS Program has over 29 years of successful programs that serve children facing incredible health challenges. We have established successful partnerships with national organizations, foundations, colleges, music therapists and child life specialists creating a national network that we work with each day to connect and serve children across the US. We have a great award-winning staff of professionals who provide the highest quality of programs for our KEYS families. Our volunteers are truly the heart of our organization, with more than 400 active and dedicated volunteers who help to make our programs and smiles possible.

There are just over 13,000 children who are diagnosed with cancer each year. When we founded KEYS in 1993, our vision and goal was to make music available to every child who is diagnosed with cancer in the US so they may have music as part of their overall treatment and care throughout their journey. In 2018, the KEYS Program achieved that goal! Today, through our KEYS Kids Network, we deliver music, hope and smiles to over 250 children's hospitals, camps and Ronald McDonald House sites across the US that serve over 1.2 million pediatric patients each year. Our dream of bringing music to the bedside of every child diagnosed with cancer in the US has been accomplished.

The vision for the next 25 years is to provide the kids we serve an opportunity to share their song, their music and their story with their fellow cancer warrior peers, sharing our music therapy services nationwide and building our KEYS Kids Network into a place of support, hope, inspiration and smiles.

In addition, we have added telehealth music therapy to the programs we provide, enabling us to provide music therapy for free to children at home, in treatment or no matter where they are. We can now be at their side throughout their journey, assisting them with support, and providing support, music and tools to help them through the toughest days a little easier.