CBCA’s Arts + Health Forum: Social Prescriptions Resources
The upcoming Arts + Health Forum: Social Prescriptions on June 14 will explore the rise of social prescription programs in America and examine them through a lens of health access, cultural equity and cross-sector partnerships.
Research has shown that engaging in social activities, such as arts & culture, can have real health benefits. “Social prescription” programs are one way that healthcare providers, insurance companies and arts partners are attempting to address barriers to access.
The following articles and resources provide more resources related to the topic of social prescriptions as well as arts and health.
WATCH
- PBS Newshour piece about the announcement from the U.S. Surgeon General declaring new public health epidemic in America: loneliness
LISTEN
- Quick Study: Arts and the Surgeon General’s Health Advisory, podcast discussing arts programming in the context of the Surgeon General’s recent advisory on loneliness and isolation
READ
- The Arts Can Liberate Us from Loneliness discussing how engagement with the arts leads to feeling less alone in the world
- Elysian Kogelmeier, Head of Growth at Denver based Artwork Archive, CBCA member and recent graduate of CBCA’s Leadership Arts program shares her personal connection between the arts and health through Artwork Archive’s work with Children’s Hospital Colorado: How Hospital Art Collections Became Very Personal.
- Other articles about the arts and health from the Artwork Archive blog:
