We're excited to share the “Clinical Research Priorities to Support Creative Arts Therapies in Military-Connected Populations” report, developed from the 2023 State of the Science Summit. This report highlights innovative research paths to explore the role of creative arts therapies in supporting service members, veterans, and their families through trauma recovery. The November 2023 summit gathered clinicians, researchers, and military health professionals to discuss the future of creative arts therapies, touching on topics such as: ✅ Emotional regulation & trauma recovery, ✅ The mechanisms behind creative therapies, ✅ Expanding telehealth delivery of CATs, ✅ Developing standardized research protocols and outcomes. As Dr. Jay Uomoto, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Clinical Research Director for Creative Forces, remarked, "This summit sets the stage for groundbreaking studies that can transform clinical practice and significantly improve patient outcomes for military-connected populations." Read the full report and discover how this research is shaping the future of arts in health: https://lnkd.in/g5ZCR5hJ 📷 Image 1: Dr. Jay Uomoto, Clinical Research Director for Creative Forces, welcoming attendees to the State of Science Summit with a call to action. #CreativeArtsTherapies #StateOfTheScience #ArtsInHealth
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Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs that seeks to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military and veteran populations exposed to trauma, as well as their families and caregivers. Learn more at https://www.creativeforcesnrc.arts.gov/ We reserve the discretion to hide, delete or not allow comments that contain: • Vulgar or abusive language; • Personal or obscene attacks of any kind; • Offensive terms targeting individuals or groups; • Threats or defamatory statements; • Links to any site; • Suggestions or encouragement of illegal activity; • Multiple successive off-topic posts by a single user or repetitive posts copied and pasted by multiple users, or spam; • Unsolicited proposals or other business ideas or inquiries; • Promotion or endorsement of commercial services, products, or entities; or • Personally identifiable information that has been inappropriately posted Visitor-generated comments (including username and any identifying information provided) on any and all Creative Forces social media channels become publicly available, both at the time of posting and later, pursuant to FOIA/Privacy Act requests, as applicable.
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Have you heard about the Anchorage Concert Association Community Café? 🎶 The Café is a monthly event that brings together veterans, service members, and musicians to share creative expression. The event offers an open mic format and jam sessions, creating a collaborative environment. Whether sharing a song, poem, dance, or visual art, all genres and skill levels are welcome. Bring an instrument or borrow one from the Café! A variety of percussion instruments are also provided for group jam sessions. 🥁🎤 Hosted by local veterans and musicians, the Community Café offers a free space for military veterans, service members, and their families to connect and explore their creativity with support from Creative Forces. 📅 The next Community Café is on November 13! 🔗 Sign up here: bit.ly/3Yvbdgx 📸 Image: Military artists posing with Creative Forces music therapist Danielle Vetro-Kalseth at the Anchorage Concert Association Community Café, August 2024. Photos courtesy of Logan Walton #CreativeForces #JamSessions #VeteranArt #AncorageAlaska #CommunityCafe
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📅 Save the date! Join us on Nov. 21 at 1 PM ET for the “Creative Collaborations: Unlocking the Power of Community Arts Partnerships” webinar. Discover how community arts organizations partner with VA, DoD, and national networks to create meaningful impact for military-connected communities. Don’t miss this chance to connect with partners and strengthen collaborations. Reserve your spot today! 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/g76kaP2X 📸 Image: Attendees join hands during a dance activity during the Creative Forces Community Engagement Convening in Washington, DC at NEA Headquarters, January 2023. Photo courtesy of Brendan Bannon #CreativeForces #ArtsInHealth #CommunityEngagement Mid-America Arts Alliance National Endowment for the Arts
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A friendly reminder that our partner, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, is seeking a Health Economist Consultancy. See the full RFP below ⬇
HJF is seeking a Health Economist Consultancy to advise and work with Creative Forces Clinical Leadership to commission a comprehensive health economics study. To download detailed instructions on acquiring the full RFP, please visit: https://lnkd.in/e4zaAkGi #healtheconomics #healtheconomist #economicmodelling
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Have you signed up for the Creative Forces newsletter? Be sure to join our mailing list to be the first to know about upcoming webinars, resources, and program announcements that current and prospective Community Engagement grant recipients won’t want to miss. Subscribe here for the latest news and updates from our Community Engagement Grant program, our clinical team’s creative arts therapies work, and our research activities: https://lnkd.in/g8WjZa3P Hands on a pottery wheel. Photo courtesy of 3 Peaks Photography & Design #CreativeForces #CreativeArtsTherapies #CommunityEngagement #ArtsInHealth
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We love this report from our partner, the University of Florida - Center for Arts in Medicine, on the key learnings from the Arts and Health Caucus. The Caucus was held before the impactful Healing, Bridging, Thriving Summit, hosted partly by the National Endowment for the Arts. We encourage anyone interested in learning how the arts can support health and wellbeing to read more: https://lnkd.in/ed2fdcy5 #ArtsinHealth
How Do We Realize the Potential of the Arts to Support Health and Wellbeing in the United States? This Arts & Health Pre-Summit Caucus Report explores the possibilities! Published by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Harvard University, and the University of Florida’s Center for Arts in Medicine, the report presents a summary of key learnings from the Arts and Health Caucus held in advance of Healing, Bridging, Thriving: A Summit on Arts and Culture in our Communities, co-hosted by The White House Domestic Policy Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. This day-long event was a first-of-its-kind convening to share insights and explore opportunities for arts organizations, arts practitioners, and artists to contribute to the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, invigorate physical spaces, fuel democracy, and foster equitable outcomes. Keynotes, panels, and performances garnered support at these intersections and built on the momentum of President Biden’s 2022 Executive Order focused on promoting the arts and humanities in the United States (US) as “essential to the wellbeing, health, vitality, and democracy of our Nation. Report prepared by Tessa Brinza, Nicole Morgan, Alex Rodriguez, MPH, Nisha Sajnani, PhD RDT-BCT, Jill Sonke, and Lisa Wong. Report Design by CULTURUNNERS. Dive into the content now! https://lnkd.in/ed2fdcy5 WHO Regional Office for Europe, Community Jameel, Arts For EveryBody, International Arts + Mind Lab, Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Art Pharmacy, Creative Forces, Social Prescribing USA, Christopher Bailey, Harvard Medical School, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, The Carter Center, NYC Health + Hospitals, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, The Music Man Foundation #ArtsInHealth #ArtsInMedicine #ArtsInWellbeing #ArtsInHealthResearch #ArtsInCommunity #ArtsInPublicHealth #CommunityArt #Wellbeing #Arts
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HJF is seeking a contractor with expertise in strategic planning to work with the Internal Research Strategic Planning Team at the Creative Forces Clinical Program. If you are interested in helping to develop this 3-year (2025 – 2028) Research Strategic Plan, visit https://lnkd.in/eT9ZVYX7 to download the RFP. #WeAreHJF
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📖 This week is all about the CATs! Today, we're revisiting the JMVFH - The Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health's most popular article of 2021, featuring Creative Forces' creative arts therapists (CATs). 🎨🎶💃 The article spotlights the significant impact of art therapy, dance/movement therapy, and music therapy on military families dealing with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). From inspiring clinical vignettes to ongoing research, our creative arts therapists are making a difference in the lives of military families. Since its publication, the article has been downloaded more than 3,500 times and cited in various peer-reviewed journals, making it an essential resource in trauma recovery through the arts. 📄 Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/gJVWR69T 📸 Image: CAT leads, Melissa Walker, Heather Spooner, Liz Freeman, and Rebecca Vaudveil, standing next to a Creative Forces logo. Photo courtesy of Creative Forces. #CreativeArtsTherapies #MilitaryFamilies #CreativeForces #JMVFH
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Meet Alyssa Vaughn, a U.S. Army veteran who competed for the first time at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Vamc Creative Arts Festival on September 10th. We're thrilled to share that all three of Alyssa's entries have advanced for selection to the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival. Alyssa received virtual art therapy from Creative Forces CAT Gretchen Miller MA, LPAT, ATR-BC, and shared that meeting Gretchen in person and seeing other veterans' artwork was the highlight of the festival. Reflecting on the value of art therapy for veterans, Alyssa said: "It's really the only thing that helps me. I can talk all day long, but to sit and focus on something and create something seems to help me more than anything else... it's important for our mental health to have those [resources] available and accessible." Thank you, Alyssa, for sharing your story and reminding us of the restorative power of art. 🎨💙 📸 Image 1: Alyssa Vaughn at the NE Ohio Creative Arts Festival with her art entries, which advanced to the national stage. Photo courtesy of VA NE Ohio Healthcare System. 📸 Images 2 - 4: Photos of Alyssa Vaughn's artwork, courtesy of Gretchen Miller. #WorldMentalHealthDay #CreativeArtsTherapies #VeteransHealth #NVCAF
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This week, we are spotlighting two veterans who competed in the VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System Creative Arts Festival on September 10th and had entries that advanced to the national stage. First up is Donna Harge, a U.S. Army veteran whose poem "Spectrums of Visions in Prisms" was selected for national judging. Donna recited her piece at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Vamc, and her words captivated the judges. Donna works closely with Creative Forces creative arts therapists (CATs), music therapist Karen Olean, and art therapist Gretchen Miller MA, LPAT, ATR-BC, who have facilitated her trauma recovery. She shares, "I respect and trust them both. And they are totally instrumental in my peace and undescribed potential." We're so happy about Donna's achievement and the incredible impact creative arts therapies have on veterans like her. Read more about her journey with creative art therapies here: https://bit.ly/4eLFexR 🎥 Video: Donna Harge reciting her poem at the NE Ohio Veterans Creative Arts Festival, courtesy of Donna Harge. #CreativeArtsTherapies #VeteransArt #NVCAF #CreativeForces