Recommendations

Recommendations for Policy, Practice, Further Research

Increased funding to arts based health intervention projects which teach participants to develop and care for their whole selves. This approach also focuses on prevention rather than cure
Participation of Black and diverse womxn in health care policy development to increase sense of belonging and community building
Increased representation of womxn of colour as health care practitioners in senior level positions that can actively contribute to policy development/change (the lack of womxn of colour in the health care system is a deterrent for many participants because of systemic racism, stigmatization/criminalization of mental health, and lack of job security for leaves of absence for mental health crisis
Increase funding to racialized womxn's groups whose work address issues of exclusion and discrimination and specific cultural sensitivity around community/herstoric trauma
Capacity building within Black and diverse womxn's organizations to cultivate their ability meet the needs of the community
Bridging programs for womxn to receive support in developing career skills and access to affordable housing
Increased support in institutions and communities to challenge stigma around mental wellness
Assist local organizations to carry out projects that center Black and diverse womxn and that forward a programme of inclusion and equal access
Provide funding to The Anitafrika Method as an ongoing arts based health intervention project to enhance the method's capacity to:
- to build on its findings, outcomes and recommendations
- to broaden the method and it's applications
- to make it accessible to more Black and diverse womxn
- to use the method to advocate in the health care system on behalf of Black and diverse womxn
- to connect with other arts based health intervention projects and establish a national network and national forum
- to use the Anitafrika Method to mobilize artists across Canada to direct their attention to the power of the arts as a healing tool and to contribute their artistic power to healing the country

THE ANITAFRIKA METHOD

Arts-Based Health Intervention in The Lives

of Black & Diverse Womxn

RECOMMENDATIONS

Recommendations for Policy, Practice, Further Research

Increased funding to arts based health intervention projects which teach participants to develop and care for their whole selves. This approach also focuses on prevention rather than cure

Participation of Black and diverse womxn in health care policy development to increase sense of belonging and community building

Increase funding to racialized womxn's groups whose work address issues of exclusion and discrimination and specific cultural sensitivity around community/herstoric trauma

Capacity building within Black and diverse womxn's organizations to cultivate their ability meet the needs of the community

Bridging programs for womxn to receive support in developing career skills and access to affordable housing

Increased support in institutions and communities to challenge stigma around mental wellness

Assist local organizations to carry out projects that center Black and diverse womxn and that forward a programme of inclusion and equal access

Provide funding to The Anitafrika Method as an ongoing arts based health intervention project to enhance the method's capacity to:

to build on its findings, outcomes and recommendations

to broaden the method and it's applications

to make it accessible to more Black and diverse womxn

to use the method to advocate in the health care system on behalf of Black and diverse womxn

to connect with other arts based health intervention projects and establish a national network and national forum

to use the Anitafrika Method to mobilize artists across Canada to direct their attention to the power of the arts as a healing tool and to contribute their artistic power to healing the country