HEARING EDUCATION AND AWARENESS FOR ROCKERS INC

Results: Every year H.E.A.R. Listen Smart program reaches out to more music educators, health professionals, school classrooms, music and sound arts faculty, community groups and music camps to conduct Listen Smart programs. With your continued support we hope to advance our programs from a one-time guest speaker to regular orientation classes conducted throughout the year in many more schools. Listen Smart program: includes Listen Smart film workshop/lectures, educational handouts, free earplugs, surveys, free hearing screenings when requested, one on one hearing help and low cost custom hearing protection made available. H.E.A.R. Listen Smart program successful growth includes 7,000 students served at Bay Area: Girls Rock Camp (Oakland), San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Blue Bear School of Music (San Francisco), Expressions New Media College/SAE (Emeryville), Pyramind Media and Music School (San Francisco), AIM middle school programs, San Francisco State and San Francisco City Colleges Audio Engineering Programs, Audio Engineering Society-AES Chapter and AES Student Chapter (Marin and San Francisco) Sound Wall Music Camp, Victor Wooten Music Camp and many others. H.E.A.R. Listen Smart Program materials requests have grown exponentially from educators and students helping to expand our outreach even further. Newly endorsed by Little Kids Rock, we currently serve an additional 400.000 Little Kids Rock students nationally by providing a chapter on H.E.A.R. Listen Smart in their teachers manual as well as providing additional information and hearing protection when requested by their educators and parents. 200 high schools and middle schools in Canada now served The Workers’ Health, Safety, and Compensation of Newfoundland and Labrador (WHSCC) just announced that the province of Newfoundland and Labrador is about to launch a new high school level occupational health and safety course featuring a chapter on H.E.A.R. ‘s mission and programs that they believe to be the best proactive hearing health initiatives for children and young adults as part of their 10 years child care strategy action plan.

Target demographics: H.E.A.R. non-profit is dedicated to the prevention of hearing-loss and tinnitus. We cater to the population most vulnerable to potential noise induced hearing damage ––young music lovers, musicians, DJs, sound-engineers and their audiences and others in music-entertainment industry––but extend our education, awareness advocacy to people from all walks of life.

Direct beneficiaries per year: 7,000 students in the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland, CA, NYC, New York and more

Geographic areas served: H.E.A.R. - Hearing Education & Awareness for Rockers (San Francisco, CA, USA - www.hearnet.com) Founded in 1988, is helping to raise awareness of the real dangers of repeated exposure to excessive noise levels from music.

Programs: Program Description: Listen Smart: Safely Handling the Power of Sound film and workshops and film. Over exposure to high-volume sounds is reaching near epidemic levels with young people, usually due to their consumption of music entertainment from loud music amplification or wearing earbud headphones. Unfortunately, the damage is only realized later once it’s too late. Helping teens and young adults grasp the seriousness of overexposure is only matched by the necessity to do it with a message that is fun and credible. Fortunately Listen Smart Program film and workshop is here! Program Long-Term Success: (2015) WHO- World Health Organization sites 1.1 billion people at risk of hearing loss, a serious threat posed by exposure to recreational noise due to the unsafe use of personal audio devices and exposure to damaging levels of sound at noisy entertainment venues. (1989) Nonprofit H.E.A.R, with support of Pete Townshend of the Who launched the first grassroots initiatives worldwide in the media to educate the public, especially young people -- but, more needed to be done. The effects of hearing damage can be immediate with loud ringing after exposure from loud volume or comes on silently and does not catch up with us until later in life, at which point the damage is irreversible and emotionally draining. No important health issue is so overlooked as that of hearing-loss. Literally thousands of musicians, other music professionals, and audience members suffer from hearing damage. Protecting your hearing is vital to everyone and more importantly to learn these lessons when you are young. Program Short-Term Success: H.E.A.R. Listen Smart program reaches out to music educators, health professionals, school classrooms, music and sound arts faculty, community groups and music camps to conduct Listen Smart programs. With your support, we hope to advance our programs from a one-time guest speaker to regular orientation classes conducted throughout the year in many more schools. Listen Smart program: includes Listen Smart film workshop/lectures, educational handouts, free earplugs, surveys, hearing screenings when requested, one on one hearing help and low cost custom hearing protection made available when requested. We hope to advance our programs from a one-time guest speaker to regular orientation classes conducted throughout the year in many more schools. Listen Smart program: includes Cine Golden Eagle award winning Listen Smart film a Hearing Aid Music Foundation production, produced by Dan Beck and directed by Pamela French features appearances by Metallica, Moby and Ozzie Ozbourne and hearing doctors, workshop/lectures, educational handouts, free earplugs, surveys, free hearing screenings when requested, one on one hearing help and low cost custom hearing protection made available.we hope to advance our programs from a one-time guest speaker to regular orientation classes conducted throughout the year in many more schools.