Introduction
This document compiles the information gathered during the Society for Arts in Healthcare training with the NYC Regional Arts and Healthcare Network. This information can be used by the Network to inform an updated whole-Network asset map, further needs assessments, and the start of a strategic plan.
This document includes the following information:
- List of taskforce members
- A list of all un/under-reached populations in arts and health identified by the network
- A list of organizations (assets) in the network
- Partnerships that network members have among each other and in the community
- A statement about evidence gathering
- Network purpose
- Network goal setting
Taskforce
Source: Notes from discussion
- Rachel Brandoff
- Emily O'Leary
- Erin Balvanz
- Rachel Brusky
- Alexandra Frankel
- Marianne Hardart
- Joanne Loewy
Un/Under-reached populations in arts and health
Sources: Pre-training survey results and individual worksheets for asset mapping
Top cited:
- Home-based Care/Hospice
- Elderly in the community
- Professional Caregivers, Medical Students and Staff
- Hospitalized Elderly
- Personal Caregivers
- People in Power
Others listed:
- Diagnostic-specific
- Oncology
- Dementia
- Geriatrics
- Neuropathy
- Neurology
- Alzheimers
- Dementia
- Respiration issues/Asthma/COPD
- Pediatrics
- Neurology
- Oncology
- Geographic-specific
- Review statistics
- Arts as therapeutic intervention vs. creative arts therapy
- Caregivers – doctors, etc.
- Mental health professionals
- Cancer care supportive services
- Family
- People in Power
- Lobbyists
- Researchers
- Administrators
- Policymakers
- Pharmaceuticals
- K – 12 classroom teachers
- Veterans
- Artist involvement
- Funders
- People in rehab
- Children with grief
- Medically hospitalized adults
- Adults with disabilities
- Mental health
- Developmental
- Autism
- Medical adults
- ET Summit attendees
- Students
- At-risk high school students
- Art therapy students
- People with respiration issues/Asthma/COPD
- Faculty
- Older adults
- African American women over 50 years of age
- TBI community
Organizations (assets) in the network and their descriptions
Source: Individual worksheets for asset mapping
Hebrew Home for the Aged- Derfner Judaica Museum and Art Collection
[Emily O'Leary, The Hebrew Home at Riverdale, HHR: Provides long-term and short-term rehab, Promotes Jewish culture and fine arts, eoleary@hebrewhome.org
• Art looking program for diverse populations of older adults (includes exhibitions and permanent collection)
• Enrichment and quality of life through museum programs
Master Scholars Program in Medical Himanushu
• To bring and select humanistic NVC to the medical school experience in artistic and cultural mediums
• To help students develop the professionalism necessary to care for their home patients and families and understanding and utilizing the impact of their talents
Beth Israel Medical Center Music Therapy Department
• Addressing physical, mental, emotional, spiritual needs of patients and staff through music therapy interactions
• Provide means for managing and completing effective radiation therapy
NYU Master Art Therapy Program
[Alexandra Sorokolit Frankel, New York University, Art Therapist M.A., Artist , alexandra.s.frankel@gmail.com]
• Through program, worked with students and children, with mental health disabilities
Public health medical center
• Emphasize human, holistic care
Wilma's Studio at NY Presbyterian Hospital
[Rachel Deutsch-Brusky, Self-employed, 50 Trenton Street, Apt. 2, Jersey City, NJ 07306 rachel.brusky@yahoo.com]
• Freelance visual artist (artist in residence); Art teacher (children and adults); Facilitator with children and art in neurology and oncology clinics; mural artist
Community and Access Programs at MoMA
[Carrie McGee, carrie_mcgee@moma.org, Kirsten Schroeder, Kirsten_Schroeder@moma.org, Laura_Steefel-Moore, Laura_Steefel-Moore@MoMA.org]
• Work with individuals with disabilities, older adults and other underserved audiences. All our programs are founded on the belief that engagement with art can have a positive impact on the physical, social and emotional health individuals and communities
Dance for PD
[David Leventhal, Mark Morris Dance Group, 3 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217 david@mmdg.org]
• Developing and offering high-quality dance classes for people with Parkinson's, their care partners, families and friends
• Collaborating with other arts organizations, medical centers, community organizations and dance companies to replicate our model whenever there is a community need through training and support resources
Louis Armstrong Center for Musical Medicine
[Joanne Loewy DA, LCAT, MT-BC, Director, The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, JLoewy@chpnet.org, www.musicandmedicine.org
• To infiltrate music into medicine into teams to expand practice, clinical training and treatment options
• Medicine and arts to contribute to BI's mission to treat mind, body and spirit
• Medical music psychothomy as an integrating apparent healthcare of the individual, caregivers and community
The Creative Center
[Robin Glazer, The Creative Center - Arts in Healthcare, Executive Director, rglazer@thecreativecenter.org, www.thecreativecenter.org
• We do arts in health programs in hospitals, senior facilities
• Hold free workshops in the arts for people with cancer, training programs for the field online gallery for professional artists living with illness, programs for medical and nursing students and staff
Rachel Brandoff
• Strategic task force on mental health and trama@DDHHS Region 2 office on women's health-needs assessments, building connections, professional development and promoting arts in mental health framework
• Teach art therapy to grad and undergrad-promote idea of jobs in arts in healthcare, supervise new professionals. Teach in 3 schools - 2 in NYC area and 1 in MA
NYULMC
• To provide normalization, coping and distraction through the arts
• To allow expression and therapeutic (rehab and emotional) intervention through the arts
UMDNJ
• Empowerment that everyone is a creative being. This creativity can be realized through creative arts expressions
VNSNY Hospice
[Erin Balvanz, VNSNY Hospice and Palliative Care, 1250 Broadway, New York, NY 10001 erin.blythebalvanz@vnsny.org]
• Patient with end of life in their disease progression runs its natural course; and their families, mostly in the home with an IPU housed in Bellvue and 13 months post death bereavement
NYU Langone Medical Center
[Marianne Hardart, NYU Langone Medical Center, 400 East 34th Street, RG34, New York, NY 10028 marianne.hardart@nyumc.org]
• Bring arts organization into hospital so people from hospital can then go on to the arts
• Large academic medical center (Research, education, patient care)
The Therapeutic Arts Program for Neurological Rehabilitation
[Eliette Markhbein, Mount Sinai Rehab Center, Neuro art rehab, emarkhbe@hunter.cuny.edu]
• Facilitates painting for better outcomes in rehabilitation of the people with TB
• Addresses neurological deficits = cognitive, physical, emotional
Partnerships
Source: Notes from the asset mapping activity
| Partner | Partner | |
| Music Therapy at Beth Israel | Music program psych palliative care at Beth Israel |
Evidence
Source: Group discussion
- Survey populations – what are they getting?
Network purpose
Source: Group discussion
- Learning community
- Increase employment opportunities
- Advocacy
- Cohesive messaging
- Resource-sharing
- Professional support and inspirations
- Inter-disciplinary exchange
- Artists, therapists and health professionals
- Bridging the gaps
Goal setting
Source: Small group goal-setting activity
Goal 1: Increase membership, encourage diversity in network
Rationale: To enhance capacity of network to expand reach of arts and health;
- Assess current numbers
- Approach graduate students
Goal 2: Deepen richness of network engagement (weekend retreat for network, including staff and patients)
Goal 3: Infrastructure development (identify common interest and goals, develop clear understanding of competencies of each network member, determine whether the network is meeting members' needs, build partnerships and new projects)
Goal 4: Communications and advocacy