 The Arts & Mental Health Edition
Welcome to this special edition of the GM i-THRIVE newsletter, focusing on our Arts & Mental Health Innovation programme.
It’s been six months since Dr Kat Taylor was welcomed to the GM i-THRIVE team to manage the Arts and Mental Health Innovation Programme and some really exciting progress has been made. So it seems like a good time to share a round-up of activities under the programme.
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Arts & Mental Health Innovation – a quick explainer
We’re excited to break new ground with our Arts and Culture programme. Working with arts partners in Greater Manchester, we’re helping kick-start some of the changes needed for more flexible, relevant and enjoyable mental health support for young people.
Since April 2019, the team has been working closely with organisations and individuals from the cultural sector to develop a clear vision for innovative and evidence-based partnerships. We have taken significant steps towards understanding current provision, sharing good practice, implementing projects and developing an evaluation framework. Our aim is to continue this work, and begin working with children and young people in the development of arts and mental health programmes.
Dr Kat Taylor is the Programme Lead, you are welcome to contact her for any further info: Katherine.Taylor3@mft.nhs.uk
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What is happening in the programme?
Evaluation framework
GM i-THRIVE in partnership with Great Place, 42nd Street, Arts Council England and other key stakeholders have established a working party to develop a framework to evaluate our arts and culture programme. The evaluation framework will provide a standardised means of collecting and reporting on data.
While there have been hundreds of studies on the role of culture and the arts in supporting wellbeing, no standard means of collecting and reporting data and outcomes are in place. We hope to set this standard with the framework, which in turn allows findings from evidence-based practice to have a meaningful impact that commissioners can work with.
The evaluation framework is due to launch in 2020 at our Arts & Culture Communities of Practice event.
New project- proof of concept
GM i-THRIVE in partnership with Great Place will fund three pilot projects in CAMHS services. These activities, alongside our new evaluation framework, will allow us to demonstrate the impact of cultural and arts-led options for children and young people. We’ll keep you posted on this project.
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Upcoming Events
Mental Health Foundation Reporting
Kat Taylor's 2018 report 'Art Thou Well: Towards creative devolution of mental health care in Greater Manchester' looks at broadening the use of arts for health and well-being in the context of GM Devolution. The Mental Health Foundation will feature Kat's work in a series of briefings and webinars in Feb 2020.
Film from Belle Vue Productions: February 2020
Manchester based film production company Belle Vue productions will deliver a film on the progress of arts and mental health in GM as part of the evaluation with Great Place.
Arts, Health and Wellbeing Community of Practice: 21st May 2020
We'll keep you updated on further details of this event via the newsletter
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Worldwide Arts and health updates
Wellcome award on arts and physical/mental health
The award has just been announced to support the world's largest study into the impact of arts on physical and mental health. You can find out more here
What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? A scoping review (2019)
The WHO Europe report launched yesterday: 3500 studies on role of arts and culture in prevention, management and treatment. You can view the report here
There is also a supporting fact sheet on the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being.
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