alex coulter director of arts & health south west
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Alex Coulter
Director of Arts & Health South West
Regional representative for the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing
www.ahsw.org.uk
www.artshealthandwellbeing.org.uk
Activate, Dance Generations, Abbeyfield Care Home, Live Music Now Good Times project, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Where does arts and health work happen?
Royal Gloucestershire Hospital Perranporth Surgery, Arts for Health Cornwall & Isles of Scilly
hospitals – community centres – care homes – GP surgeries – galleries and museums – schools – prisons…….
Insider Art, Devon Desperate Men Theatre Company ArtCare, Salisbury District Hospital
Yeovil District Hospital REACH Devon Soundings
• Activities involving the arts with an intended health or wellbeing outcome?• Defining boundaries – ‘define or be defined’ – does it matter?
What defines it as arts and health work?
How we access health services
Wellbeing and preventing ill health before we need to access services
Artform Health conditions
Health settings Health Arts Other sectors
Demographic
Dance Mental GP Surgery Primary Participatory Libraries Pre-natal
Theatre Addiction Acute hospital Acute Arts Therapies
Museums Early Years
Literature Depression Community hospital
Public Public Arts Voluntary sector
Children & Young People
Film & Digital
Psychosis Mental health units
Mental Community Arts
Education Adults
Visual arts Dementia Prisons Disability Arts Local Authority
Older People
Crafts Physical Community venues
BME
Design Diabetes Residential Care
Urban
Inter-disciplinary
Cancer Hospices Rural
Music Obesity Gypsies & Travellers
• Arts & Health South West is an information, support and advocacy organisation for people who believe in the value of creativity in enhancing people’s health and wellbeing
• Launched in 2006
• Membership organisation – 900 members including health organisations and individual health professionals, arts organisations, academics, practitioners, therapists, educationalists
• Since 2010 free to join
• Funded by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts 2006 – 2012; ACE National Portfolio funding 2012-15
National developments
• Department of Health and Arts Council England joint prospectus for Arts and Health 2007
• “hospitals and other care settings that pay close attention to the overall physical environment for patients achieve real improvements in the health of patients… Access and participation in the arts are an essential part of our everyday wellbeing and quality of life.” Alan Johnson: September 2008
• Launch of National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing 2012
• A Charter for Arts, Health and Wellbeing
• Culture, Health and Wellbeing international conference June 2013
Role of the National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing
• Advocacy and raising awareness– Public– Clinicians and providers– Decision makers and funders
• National work– A coordinated national voice– Links to other national bodies with shared priorities– Lobbying at a policy level
• Research and resources– An ‘intelligent hub’ to develop and refine sector resources– Training and CPD– Sharing knowledge and research
Structure of the National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing
• Charity • Not a membership organisation but an alliance of organisations• Representatives from the 9 regions of England
– Arts & Health South West– London Arts in Health Forum– We Do (Open Art) (Yorkshire and Humberside)– West Midlands Arts Health and Wellbeing– Arts Derbyshire (East Midlands)– South East Arts and Health Partnership– Centre for Medical Humanities Durham University (North East)– Arts for Health Manchester (North West)
Healthy and Creative Ageing
Global Health Inequalities and Culture
Culture and the Social Determinants of Wellbeing
Research
•The latest research and new methodologies
•The dissemination of international research and evaluation
Policy
•Local, regional, national, and international policy development
•Developing national and international collaborations and networks
Practice
•Museums and Health
•Arts in healthcare settings
•Arts and health promotion/prevention
Future Developments
• All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts and Health
• UK Arts and Health Research Network
• Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Forum
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