This environmental scan explores key features of community arts interventions that support newcomers across Canada, focusing more specifically on mental health and wellness.
The findings highlight trauma-informed expressive arts interventions improved well-being, strengthened coping skills, and increased knowledge, confidence, and safety among newcomer survivors of domestic and family violence.
The planning tools offer a strategic framework, mapping program inputs, activities, and outputs while showing how expressive arts interventions support newcomer women who have experienced domestic violence.
