Access Alliance Arts for Family Health
Digital Platform for Arts Integration in Healthcare and Settlement: Access Alliance Arts for Family Health
Arts for Family Health, a project of Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services, offers a digital platform to learn about arts-based health promotion approaches. This webinar introduced resources and tools designed for practitioners, managers, researchers, and academics interested in integrating creative methods into their work.
This platform serves practitioners, managers, researchers, and academics who are interested in integrating arts-based mental health approaches into settlement, health, and community services. Discover how to navigate the digital platform on best practices for delivering expressive arts programs that are inclusive, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed. Tune in and learn how to navigate this new arts for family health platform.
At the heart of this webinar is Access Alliance’s belief that the Arts for Family Health approach is one of our most powerful tools for advancing newcomer health and wellbeing. Rooted in more than two decades of arts-based practice and shaped most recently through the HEAL project (2022–2026) this work honours lived experience, collaboration, and the transformative role of arts in healthcare and settlement.
This presentation explores the co-creation of a new digital platform developed alongside practitioners, artists, knowledge holders, participants, and partner organizations. Guided by the principle that learning should be shared, the platform was designed as a collective space for connection, reflection, and exchange across disciplines and communities.
Join us to learn how arts-based approaches can be meaningfully integrated into settlement, health, and community services, and how shared knowledge can strengthen practice, partnerships, and the communities we serve.
Learning objectives
Understand Arts Integration: Explore how integrating arts into healthcare and settlement services supports holistic health for newcomer populations.
Co-Creation in Practice: Learn how knowledge mobilization resources are co-created with participants to ensure relevance and effectiveness for newcomers.
Navigate the Digital Hub: Discover how to use the Access Alliance Arts for Family Health website, including the research hub, articles, and community stories.
Inclusive, Culturally Responsive Programming: Highlight approaches that are trauma-informed, culturally grounded, and inclusive in delivering expressive arts programs.
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