Resource: Arts in Medicine Literature Review (Grantmakers in the Arts)
A literature review on arts in medicine. Illuminates the role artists and arts organizations can play in healthcare settings.
News
Resource: Museum-based programs for socially isolated older adults: Understanding what works (Museums on Prescription)
This paper presents research findings that help to understand how museum programs created opportunities to enhance wellbeing and health, and changed experiences of social isolation in older adults.
Resource: Arts Participation & Canadians’ Health (Infographic)
The Ontario government is providing more than $1 million in additional annual funding specifically targeted at improving access to core and specialized mental health and addictions services for children and youth in Northwestern Ontario.
Resource: Arts-Based Programs and Arts Therapies for At-Risk, Justice-Involved, and Traumatized Youths (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)
This review explores recent research on arts-based programs and arts therapies.The review focuses on the following three populations: 1) at-risk youths, 2) justice-involved youths, and 3) traumatized youths.
Program: Heart House Hospice Programming (Heart House Hospice)
Heart House Hospice (HHH) initiated our health and wellness program in 2015 with a grant from Baxter International.That grant provided us with the preliminary data to apply to the Ontario Trillium for continued funding for this project.
Resource: Health Stories (Women’s College Hospital, Sick Kids)
Using digital storytelling to enhance patient care and medical/health professional education.
Resource: The Arts in Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Benefits of Arts Participation (National Endowment for the Arts)
This report is a literature review and gap-analysis of recent research about the arts’ relationship to social-emotional benefits in early childhood.
Resource: Impact of fine arts participation on self-determination and locus of control among persons with developmental disabilities.(Matheny School and Hospital)
This preliminary study sought evidence of the degree to which self-determination and locus of control might be valuable constructs to study in relation to fine arts participation in adults with complex developmental disabilities.
Resource: The art of being healthy: a qualitative study to develop a thematic framework for understanding the relationship between health and the arts (University of Western Australia)
Guided by the biopsychosocial model of health and theories of social epidemiology, the aim of this study was to develop a framework pertaining to the relationship between arts engagement and population health that included outcomes, confounders and effect modifiers.
Resource: Joining the Spectrum: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Into Theatre as an Intervention for Autism Diagnosed Teens (National Endowment for the Arts)
“Joining the Spectrum”: An Interdisciplinary Research Inquiry into Theatre as Intervention for Youth with the Autism Diagnosis (ASD) explores the transformative potential of theatre as a liminal art for youth with autism, neurotypical youth (NT), and their families and the audiences.