In 2022, the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre (ManPAC) worked with GPs, health and social organisations to create an arts-based, social prescribing program called the ‘Art of Wellbeing’. The program ran for 26 weeks (i.e. 13 distinct, artist led, ‘Creative Café’ workshops plus specific, bespoke arts workshops developed at the request of participants). This report describes the program, evaluation methodology, results, conclusion and recommendations.
Davies C (2023) The Art of We

Program/Service Evaluation Results
social prescribing; creative arts; evaluation; creative cafe;

Fitzgerald, L (2020). Living Our Best Life Project Report: Trialling Social Prescribing in the City of Knox. The Community Houses Association of the Outer-eastern Suburbs (CHAOS).

The Living our best life project was funded as an Ageing Innovation Challenge 2019. It sought to trial a model of social prescribing inspired by the work of Mendip Health Connections and the Bromley by Bow Centre in the United Kingdom.
Social prescribing is the practice where health professionals provid

Program/Service Evaluation Results
social prescribing service; community connector; evaluation report

Thompson C, Morris D and Bird S (2022) Evaluation of the Improving Social Connectedness of Older Australians project pilot: Informing future policy considerations. Centre for Health Service Development, Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong.

This report draws on findings and lessons learned through the Australian Government funded evaluation of the Improving Social Connectedness of Older Australians (ISCOA) pilot. It summarises what has worked in the

Program/Service Evaluation Results
Evaluation; Social Prescribing; Older Adults

This report is a supplement to the first report on Living Our Best Life social prescribing program offered in City of Knox, Melbourne.
The report provides progress on the program including expansion across the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne and replication in two rural/regional areas of Victoria.
Includes: Aims and model; Project update; 2022-2023 successes; referral sources; Activity and communications; Measurement and evaluation and Participant Stories.

The model incl

Program/Service Evaluation Results
community connector; social prescribing; talking cafe; outcomes; report

Al-Khudairy L, Ayorinde A, Ghosh I, Grove A, Harlock J, Meehan E, Briggs A, Court R, Clarke A. Evidence and methods required to evaluate the impact for patients who use social prescribing: a rapid systematic review and qualitative interviews. Southampton (UK): National Institute for Health and Care Research; 2022 Sep. PMID: 36198023.

Other (Evaluation)
Literature Review; evaluation; data; outcomes; methods

Munoz S-A, Terje A, Bailey H. Evaluating Social Prescribing. Insights Series of Evidence Summaries. University of Highlands and Islands. June 2020

Other (Evaluation)
review; evaluation; methods; evidence; Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS); recommendations

This framework illustrates how health and community care professionals can tap into the boundary spanning activities of ‘community connectors’ to improve access to health and community services. Outcomes to measure are grouped under individuals; connectors; organisations; community

Other (Evaluation)

The PWI scale contains seven items of satisfaction, each one corresponding to a quality of life domain as: standard of living, health, achieving in life, relationships, safety, community-connectedness, and future security. Developed by The Australian Centre on Quality of Life.

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