ARTS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS
ARTS~REVIVE – Raising awareness of health in the community through using the arts.
The Revive Healthy Living Centre programme was initiated by Derby Primary Care Trust (PCT) to address community health needs in the Chaddesden, Derwent and Breadsall area of Derby. It was a community centred and community driven programme focused around the development and construction of a new centre, a new way of delivering services, developing social enterprise and promoting health through community health projects. The building opened to the public in early 2007.
Derby City and Derby QUAD secured funding for one year to enable Revive to deliver their Arts~Revive programme. The project coordinator, Charlotte Convey, was able to develop a range of exiting parnterships with artists, health care practicioners and local people.
During the year the programme developed numerous projects which: created permanent art work for display in the building; created performances, presentations, exhibions and activities for the opening of the centre; and held regular arts clubs and groups in the centre.
It was here that partnership working started with the Family Nurse partnership to improve the health and quality of life of vulnerable young parents. (See our young parents page).
Engaging people from babies to those in their 80′s, Arts~Revive was insirational in proving that the building had something to offer them.
Benefits
Promotion of Health and Wellbeing
- Using Creative approaches to promote healthy living
- Working alongside the community and supporting them to become involved in making positive choices and changes regarding their lifestyle
- Being aware of the local needs and responding to them
- Bridging the gap between health services and clients
- Identifying the role that arts can play in supporting the delivery of health agendas
- Using the arts to engage the community
Benefits to the Community
- Access to a mainstream arts provision – QUAD
- Encouraging the local community of all ages and abilities to be involved
- Being listend to
- Asking opinions and inviting ideas
- Inviting professional artists to work within small groups allowing the participants time to develop new skills
- Sharing of experiences and knowledge
- Signposting to further opportunities
- Engaging local artists and volunteers giving them confidence and support to make changes for themselves and those around them
- Enjoyment in taking part
- Developed confidence in accessing other services
- Improving wellbeing and becoming more active and involved in the community
- Developing a sense of pride and empowerment
Benefits to Revive Healthy Living Centre
- Arts were used as an effective medium for consultation with the community
- Bringing people into the centre and building positive relationships with centre users
- Supporting the devlopment of a distinctive and stimulating health facility
- Visitor awareness of opportunites on offer
- Word of mouth promotion from visitors positive experiences
- Inviting professional artists to assist with the creation of work for display in the building
- Creation of work with positive health messages
Number crunching:
- 2,210 participants
- 10,700 audiences
- 199 workshops
- 70 family activities
- 48 artists/creative practicioners contracted
- 25 partners
- loads of positive comments!
See also Mad Mondays Project
