Making arts and crafts improves your mental health as much as having a job, scientists find (Riane Lumer, CNN)
CNN article on the benefits of arts and crafts on your mental health according to studies published in Frontiers in Public Health.
CNN article on the benefits of arts and crafts on your mental health according to studies published in Frontiers in Public Health.
“The creative process invites doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to remember what it means to be human, to be vulnerable.”
“The University of Colorado research team has spent nearly two decades studying work-related stress” says this article.
Article on the benefits of social prescribing, published on Scientific American.
WBUR article on a new social prescribing program developed by Massachusetts Culture Council and health-care provider Art Pharmacy.
This hybrid event will bring together medical and artistic experts, researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world, offering opportunities for collaboration and networking across continents and disciplines
WhereToStart.ca provides access to a variety of mental health services for children and youth offered by four service providers in Peel Region.
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.
Sydenham Current article on the MAC’s ArtsCare initiatives and programming.
City Life Magazine article on the introduction of Mississauga Arts Council’s Pilot ArtsCare Social Prescription Program.