"This highly collaborative programme aims to examine how creative practice in the arts and humanities can promote the kinds of connectedness and reciprocity that support 'mutual recovery' in terms of mental health and well-being.
"Creative practice could be a powerful tool for bringing together people with mental health needs, informal carers and health, social care and education personnel, to connect in a mutual or reciprocal fashion to enhance mental health and well-being.
"This programme marks a radical shift in vision that could generate new pathways for transforming these often discrete groups of people into egalitarian, appreciative and substantively connected communities - resilient communities of mutual hope, compassion and solidarity."
http://www.healthhumanities.org/pages/view/creative-practice-mutual-recovery/
CREATIVE PRACTICE AS MUTUAL RECOVERY IN MENTAL HEALTH - abstract
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17087923&show=abstract
See also:
Connected Communities - About
http://connected-communities.org/index.php/about/
*Porch Light Initiative - Pennsylvania (thanks to Scattergood Fnd. for sharing this great initiative)
http://scattergoodfoundation.org/grantee/porch-light-initiative
See also previous story:
http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/putting-the-humanity-back-into-healthcare
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