What is ArtHouse?
ArtHouse operates in the Halton area of south Toronto, Ontario. It is a non-profit organization that offers completely free art-based classes and activities to children and youth aged 7-17 with limited access to activities requiring a fee. The program aims to support and provide a safe environment, nurturing the well-being of children. The organization strives to boost children’s competency such as confidence, curiosity, imagination, resilience, and respect for one another. ArtHouse believes that programs such as Visual Arts, Circus Workshops, Police Visiting, and Cooking can provide children with authentic opportunities to enhance their competency in our rapidly evolving 21st century. ArtHouse’s programs have been run for 11200 vulnerable children in almost 840 neighbourhoods since 2009. Programs were delivered at 90 subsidized housing locations, cooperatives, and community hubs in Halton in partnership with frontline agencies.
ArtHouse Evaluation
Using a mixed-method approach to evaluation, the Resilience Research Centre conducted a review of ArtHouse to examine the effectiveness of ArtHouse programs in relation to change in participants’ psychological competencies, such as creativity, self-confidence, self-esteem, social anxiety, and resilience. In the quantitative section of the project, a pre-and post-test design was used before the start date of the intensive summer activities in the early summer of 2023. A post-test was administered in the fall of 2023 to examine changes in children’s wellbeing after participation in ArtHouse programming. In the qualitative section of the project, a series of individual and focus group interviews with participants, program staff, and participants’ parents were conducted. Occurring during summer and fall 2023, the evaluation reports on how well the ArtHouse program achieves its objectives and outcomes. At the end of the evaluation, a final report was shared with ArtHouse in February 2024.
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Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice (2021)
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice (2021)
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.
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