About the Center for Functional Learning

As I developed Grace and her friends, I found ways to make connections between my background in health as a physician assistant. The result is a series of stories that can be used by parents, clinicians and educators as innovative resources to improve children’s lives and enhance reading skills, health literacy, and musical learning.

After all, there are four broad ways to facilitate young children’s development into active learners: establish strong relationships with adults; encourage active, hands-on involvement with their environments; create meaningful and memorable experiences; and assist in helping them understand their world. Our Healthy Music resources support all four.

To advance this work and touch more children’s lives, I established the Center for Functional Learning as a 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Today, Grace’s stories and an array of customizable patient education and engagement resources are available to clinicians’ practices, pediatric dental offices, family medicine practices, children’s hospitals, and other settings focused on helping kids! They are designed to address health literacy in age-appropriate ways with measurable effectiveness for behavior change and knowledge retention.

Through grants and other funding, we also make Healthy Music resources available to select classroom teachers.

For more information, please contact us.