Explore how expressive arts can support long-term healing, equity, community well-being, and systems change by sustaining creative, culturally grounded, trauma-informed approaches across healthcare, settlement, and GBDV services.
Explore ethical, creative, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed approaches to evaluating expressive arts programs through storytelling, reflection, and arts-based methods that centre participant voices.
Explore how intentional session design, creative activities, check-ins, and facilitation can foster safety, connection, and meaningful participation in expressive arts programs supporting newcomer survivors of GBDV.
Explore how intentional session design, creative activities, check-ins, and facilitation can foster safety, connection, and meaningful participation in expressive arts programs supporting newcomer survivors of GBDV.
Explore how thoughtful preparation, strong partnerships, and culturally responsive, trauma-informed facilitation can strengthen expressive arts programs and foster safer, welcoming spaces for newcomer survivors of GBDV.
Creative Pathways is a new online course on integrating expressive arts to support newcomer survivors of gender-based domestic violence (GBDV) across healthcare and settlement sectors.
Creative Pathways is a new online course on integrating expressive arts to support newcomer survivors of gender-based domestic violence (GBDV) across healthcare and settlement sectors.
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.
