Resource: Making music for mental health: how group drumming mediates recovery (Psychology of Well-Being)
Research demonstrating that group drumming provides a creative and mutual learning space in which mental health recovery can take place.
Resources
Resource: Immediate effects of group-based wellness drumming on affective states in university students (Mungas and Silverman, University of Minnesota, School of Music)
Resource on the positive benefits of active music-making published from University of Minnesota’s School of Music.
Resource: Effect of group empowerment drumming on cognitive performance and mood in women with fibromyalgia – disseration (Aquino, California State University, Fullerton)
Dissertation by Jordan Keith Aquino on the effect of group drumming for women with fibromyalgia.
Resource: WhereToStart.ca
WhereToStart.ca provides access to a variety of mental health services for children and youth offered by four service providers in Peel Region.
Resource: The Arts and the Quality of Life for Ontarians (Nanos/Ontario Arts Council)
Arts and Quality of Life for Ontarians, commissioned from Nanos by OAC, surveyed Ontarians on the importance of the arts for their quality of life and mental health, as well as their opinions towards the role of the arts in relation to community, diversity and identity.
Taking a look at ArtsCare (Dan White, Sydenham Current)
Sydenham Current article on the MAC’s ArtsCare initiatives and programming.
Mississauga Arts Council: Health Through the Arts (Rick Muller, City Life Magazine)
City Life Magazine article on the introduction of Mississauga Arts Council’s Pilot ArtsCare Social Prescription Program.
Sound and sight: Anna Silgardo – We are all unique (Douglas McLean, Doppler Online)
Doppler Online (Hunstville) article on Anna Silgardo’s Artist in Momentum programming for self discovery, self awareness, and healing.
Resource: Proposal for a Pilot ArtsCare Social Prescription Program (Mississauga Arts Council)
Following their findings from the Arts for Mental Health Conference in 2021, Mississauga Arts Council created a Proposal for a Pilot ArtsCare Social Prescription Program. Written by art therapist Haley Toll, this pilot program is the next step to furthering MAC’s ArtsCare initiatives to make creative experiences and activities available to residents as a non-pharmacological solution to improving mental health.
‘A prescription for fun’: How social prescribing is aiming to connect vulnerable Canadians to their communities (Erin Anderssen, The Globe and Mail)
The Globe and Mail article that explores pilot programming for social prescriptions.