Young People, Creative Participation and Crisis Recovery

Associate Professor Alison Baker, Christopher Phung, Madz Rehorek

This Issues Paper examines the use of creative arts as a participation strategy to engage young people in practices that support mental health and wellbeing. In wake of COVID-19 and concurrent crises the Resonant Voices research project, an arts-based participatory action research project, demonstrated the important role that creativity and artistic media play in individual and collective recovery for young people.