IMPACT POINTS
From 2000-2010, more than 75% of diverse, low-income, and highly disadvantaged neighborhoods with new arts organizations saw reductions in income disparity.
Almost half of frontline clinical staff believe that the arts have a positive effect on healing.
For every $1 spent on after school programs, a community can save up to $9 on reduced costs for welfare and crime prevention.
85% of military patients who have access to art therapy say it was helpful in their healing.
Forty-three percent of frontline clinical staff believe that the arts have a positive effect on healing and 24% say the arts improve clinical outcomes.
Students participating in the Kaiser Permanente Educational Theater Program show a correct answer increase of, on average, 45% in health-related questions.
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Cheadle, A., Cahill, C., Schwartz, P., Edmiston, J., et al. (2011, November 28). Engaging Youth in Learning About Healthful Eating and Active Living: An Evaluation of Educational Theater Programs [Electronic version]. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Retrieved 11 February 2018 from http://www.jneb.org/article/S1499-4046%2811%2900462-3/abstract
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ORGANIZATIONS
Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts
Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts promotes and advocates for full inclusion of artists of color and performers with disabilities at all levels of production in film, theater, television, and related media.
The Foundation for Arts and Healing
The mission of the Foundation for Art & Healing is to use its position as a “bridge” to create and expand general awareness about art and healing, to bring forward through research and related explorations critical knowledge about art and healing and the relationship between them, and to help make this knowledge available at the individual and community level.
The Arts Impact Explorer was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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