Home Street Music

“When the right words don't come to mind sometimes the right chord can tell the story.”

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KXAN

Austin nonprofit helping people build confidence through music after escaping homelessness

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A program in Austin says the therapeutic and community-building benefits of playing music are helping people who’ve transitioned out of homelessness.

Austin Chronicle

Finding Community in Austin’s Home Street Music Song Circle

The residents at Community First! Village, a virtual hamlet of cottages and campers in East Austin, are familiar with not having space, having struggled in the past to find secure housing. Nevertheless, on Monday afternoons a group comes together and trades tunes. It's Austin's only song circle specifically for people recovering from living on the streets.

Spectrum News Austin

Austin Group Uses Music to Help the Homeless

AUSTIN, Texas -- They say music has healing powers for your heart, mind and soul.

It's something that singer-songwriter Vanessa Lively knows very well. Lively spends a big part of her time giving back to the homeless community in the best way she knows how: through music.

How Did I Get Here Podcast

Founder Vanessa Lively Shares the Home Street Story on Episode 881

We have a great conversation about taking hiatus from her music career to have children and coming back with renewed passion

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Austin Woman Magazine

Singer/songwriter Vanessa Lively and her nonprofit Home Street Music are restoring self-worth in the Austin Homeless Community through music

Hogg Foundation for Mental Health podcast

Why music fans, in Austin and elsewhere, should be paying attention.

On this episode Patsy Bouressa, SIMS clinical director, and Vanessa Lively, an Austin-area musician who heads her own nonprofit, Home Street Music, shed some light on the mental health needs of this community.