Evaluation Title
Women at the HeArt Evaluation Report
Type of evaluation
Data type Qualitative
Evaluation Focus Attitudinal change, Behaviour change, Confidence, Desistance, Emotional change, Engagement, Participation, Personal development, Rehabilitation, Resettlement, Self-Esteem
Project output Exhibitions
Methodologies Attendance registers, Interviews, Questionnaires
Research limitations Access to participants, Sample size
Summary of evaluation
Women at the HeArtwas a Thames Valley Partnership project, funded by Arts Council England, The Monument Trust and Thames Valley Probation, building on the organisation’s experience of using the arts with vulnerable groups.
Aims:
- Creatively empower vulnerable women by offering participatory arts sessions
- Embed good creative practice into support services by providing free creative training within agencies who support vulnerable women
- Provide a platform for excellent professional development for artists working with vulnerable groups: training, mentoring and Action Learning
- Hold public exhibitions of the pieces created: 3 in total
Key Quote
“When the sessions started I saw that the artists’ way of working was so valuable and so in tune with our objectives. I observed that the project is about the whole person, about self-esteem and confidence and not just about the art activity. This is a very positive thing.” - Support worker.
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Info
Artforms
DramaMixed Media
Visual Arts
Organisation
Thames Valley PartnershipCJS Context
CommunityProject venues
Alana House Womens Centre
Crisis at the Old Fire Station
Elizabeth Fry Approved Premises
Region
Evaluating organisation
Author
Alison Leverett-Morris
Conducted: March 2012 – February 2014
Published: February 2014
Type: Evaluation Report
