To coincide with Children’s Mental Health Week, The CESI Innovations team led by Dr Liam O’Hare at QUB, recently held workshops via zoom with the Ulster Orchestra's Creative Programme Director, Crescendo musicians and teachers and principals from primary schools in the Colin and Shankill areas of Belfast. The very successful workshops focused on a scheme of work relating to developing social and emotional skills in children through music and parental engagement. This is part of a programme of work funded by an ESRC Impact Acceleration award (https://go.qub.ac.uk/esrc-iaa).