Arts and Culture
In partnership with BAAT
The Inclusion Institute is working in partnership with BAAT implementing a work programme focused on
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working with service user led organisations and professional bodies to raise awareness of the link between the arts, inclusion and wellbeing.
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developing the evidence base for health effectiveness through databases of good practice.
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supporting mainstream arts organisations to be more inclusive through brokerage and bespoke training (Open to All).
In partnership with the PRU
The Psychosocial Research Unit (PRU) and the Inclusion Institute bring together a wealth of academic and practical expertise in a new collaborative approach to arts and health. We are committed to a co-productive approach, and work in partnership with service users and user-led organisations.
Together we have extensive experience of supporting implementation and researching arts based activities in human services, communities and the cultural sector.
The Arts, Health Wellbeing and Inclusion initiative enables health, social care and mainstream arts organisations to produce accessible arts-based practice that link effectively to inclusion.
The arts can help people engage better with social and health programmes and make sense of their experience. Arts-based activities can contribute to a sense of cultural identity and belonging among diverse social groups and can complement or reduce the need for other, often more costly interventions. They have a role in addressing
community tensions and can help reduce the stigma of exclusion.
We offer a range of services linked to the wider resources of the PRU and Inclusion Institute:
• A ‘good practice’ database on which local services can draw and to which they can contribute.
• Innovative methods capable of examining social impact and the subtleties of cultural experience.
• Practical models for evaluation and benchmarking
• Bespoke support for project development and evaluation design
• An Arts, Health and Inclusion learning network
• Open to All, a training package for mainstream arts organisations
• The opportunity to undertake a University - based Community Leadership through Arts course.
To download the Inclusion Institute / Psychosocial Research Unit leaflet, click here.