Common Music Group and non-profit Music Well being Alliance are launching a brand new psychological well being initiative for the music trade, the music-entertainment firm introduced Thursday morning.
The Music Business Psychological Well being Fund will “present complete, high-quality outpatient psychological well being sources for music trade professionals nationwide,” in accordance with a launch. “We now have been engaged on methods to determine a streamlined pathway for psychological well being entry, funding and care planning,” UMG’s chief impression officer Susan Mazo mentioned in an announcement.
The fund will provide musicians entry to customized suggestions for psychological well being professionals, grants to assist with care prices and funding useful resource suggestions, if wanted, to proceed care.
“Rising and persevering with our partnership with Tatum [Hauck Allsep] and the Music Well being Alliance was essentially the most pure means to make sure steady and efficient psychological well being assist for anybody working in our trade,” Mazo mentioned in an announcement.
“Music Well being Alliance possesses the great sources needed to handle the complete spectrum of psychological well being wants for music trade professionals. This consists of monetary help, a continuum of look after each psychological and bodily well being, and wraparound providers corresponding to psychiatric assist, facilitation of intensive outpatient and inpatient applications, and information assortment,” Music Well being Alliance Founder and CEO Tatum Hauck Allsep mentioned in an announcement. “MHA’s holistic method ensures a long-term dedication to the well being, well-being, and sustainability of the music trade workforce.”
Artists signed to UMG will have the ability to make the most of this system, nevertheless, the businesses say the fund was established to “help all members of the music trade.” Any present or former music trade skilled can have entry to providers.
The Music Business Psychological Well being Fund is an enlargement of UMG’s four-year partnership with MHA. The preliminary healthcare partnership provides a “healthcare concierge to shoppers.” It has “already served almost 1,000 shoppers and saved them greater than $12.5 million in healthcare prices,” in accordance with a launch.
MHA provides a big slew of healthcare advocacy providers together with dental care sources, group well being providers, healthcare advocacy and confidential steering, particular person and household medical insurance, psychological well being sources, senior care assist and imaginative and prescient care sources.
