Following on from some of the highlights that BCC’s Arts & Health agenda has achieved since 2018, you are invited to attend the 4th Arts & Health networking event at Midlands Arts Centre MAC, Cannon Hill Park, on Friday 20th May 2022, 10-4.
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Those highlights include:
Prevention &
Communities (ASC) cultural commissioning impact study
Arden Gem (BCU) were commissioned to undertake an impact study
of Prevention & Communities commissioning where arts and culture have been
used to meet prevention outcomes. The findings have been used to inform further
commissioning strands to ensure the quality, reach and purpose of commissioned
activity moving forward.
Arts & Health
activity mapping per constituency
No11 Arts were contracted to undertake a city-wide mapping
exercise to ensure as much arts and cultural activity contributing to
prevention outcomes is mapped and included on the Connect2Support website
(managed by Neighbourhood Network Schemes).
Evaluation
toolkit
An
evaluation toolkit has been developed with the sector to provide a standard set
of health and wellbeing measurement tools for all Birmingham arts organisations
delivering arts & health activity which can lead to mass data analysis of
the impact of delivery across Birmingham and inform further programming /
investment.
Arts & Health Referral Framework
(UoB)
The creation of a Birmingham Arts
& Health activity referral framework for both arts organisations and
referral agents which outlines roles and responsibilities and levels of support
per participant need/requirement plus accountability for participant welfare.
Training and Supervision for lead artists
Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapy has been commissioned to develop
training and supervision sessions for lead artists to aid identification of
health/welfare indicators in participants who may be requiring further support
plus support the artist’s own welfare when leading activity in challenging
situations.
Academic Partnerships
Developing academic partnerships (BCU and UoB)
which create opportunities to align with this cross-sector work to support with
activity evaluation and analysis plus feeding into peer review journals.
Connect & Create:
The event has been organised by the BCC Arts & Health
working groups which reflects both sectors and needs.
Themes of the event will include:
- National Academy of social
prescribing: on being social prescribing ready on and offline / making
reciprocal contacts with your local SP’s and artists / creating better
links with social care workers / creating better links with your local
arts orgs etc.
- Thriving Communities: how the
programme has been delivered in Birmingham / what has worked well /what
hasn’t / what were the difficulties and opportunities to take forward
- Birmingham’s referral
framework: Articulating different levels of referral need / what next /
sector support to adopt the framework
- Event evaluation: pulling
together findings from this event with other West Midlands’ arts &
health events to form a regional arts & health impact report
- Future funding opportunities
- Taster sessions / venue tours /
surprise activities
- Refreshments / lunch / break
out, quiet rooms
Please follow link to the Eventbrite page and further details of the event. Please also share with colleagues and contacts.