1. Improving odds for at-risk youth (VCA News, Vol. 9 No. 5, September-October/November-December 1998)

2. Arts in corrections (VCA News, Vol. 10 No. 1, January-February/March-April 1998)

3. Artists with disabilities blur boundaries (VCA News, Vol. 10 No. 2, May/June 1999)

4. Helping us determine who we are, part 1 (VCA News, Vol. 10 No. 3 July/August 1999)

5. Helping us determine who we are, part 2 (VCA News, Vol. 10 No. 4 September/October 1999)

6. Arts & culture in the community, part 1 (Synergy, Vol. 10 No. 5 November/December 1999)

7. Arts & culture in the community, part 2 (Synergy, Vol. 11 No. 1 January/February 2000)

8. Arts Impact: the arts in healthcare

Arts at work in education

Research supports AIE (VCA News, Vol. 9 No. 4, July/August 1998)

Arts education advocacy resources

• Making the Case for Arts Education by the Ontario Arts Council available as a PDF at www.arts.on.ca/english/publications/pdf/makingthecase.pdf
  
• Champions of Change available at artsedge.kennedy-center.org/champions/preface.html
• Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development available at aep-arts.org/CLTemphome.html
• Summary of Critical Links at Culture Matters available at www.culturematters.ca/education.html
• Gaining the Arts Advantage by the Arts Education Partnership available at www.aep-arts.org/Gaining.html
• Learning Partnerships: Improving Learning in Schools with Arts Partners in the Community available at www.aep-arts.org/LP/LPindex.html
• Young Children and the Arts available at www.aep-arts.org/YoungChildren.html

Links to organizations:
Education

Links to Web resources:
Coming Up Taller by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities – report on the effect of arts participation on youth at risk - available at www.cominguptaller.org/

Arts Programs for At-Risk Youth by Americans for the Arts - available at www.artsusa.org/education/youth.html

Community Arts Workbook: Another Vital Link by the Ontario Arts Council - PDF available at www.arts.on.ca/english/publications/pdf/VitalLinks.pdf

An Introduction to the Arts-for-Health Movement, or How the Arts Sneaked in on the Medical Model by Janice Palmer on Community Arts Network available at http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2001/11/introduction_to.php

Check out Community Arts Network’s reading room, which has a ton of great resources on a wide variety of topics: www.communityarts.net/readingroom/

Check out www.artslynx.org/index.htm, which has an incredible number of resources on it

Links to organizations:
Arts Councils
Community Centres

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 09, 2007