Youth Mental Health Initiative, ACE Initiative & ArtistsInspire Grants
The arts and creativity is for people of all ages! The arts offers Older Adults the opportunity to express themselves, learn something new, deepen their understanding of life experiences and form friendships with like-minded individuals. These qualities have positive impacts on self-esteem, cognitive fitness, community integration, as well as counteract isolation and loneliness.
For profiles of artists and examples of workshops, click on the Directory of Artists button below. All workshops are adaptable to contexts such as Seniors’ Wellness Centres, community organizations, long-term care facilities, hospitalized settings and more.
For how the arts can benefit Older Adults, we are currently researching a guide to Supporting Older Adult Mental Health In And Through The Arts. Coming soon!
Please note that this directory is a separate and distinct resource from our ArtistsInspire Grants artists profiles and workshop catalogue, and Older Adults workshops are not eligible for ArtistsInspire Grants microgrants.
workshop participants in total!
“It was really good, I really liked it. It was fun and a little complicated. I learned a lot.”
– Youth participant, ArtistsInspire online workshops, spring/summer 2020
online workshops thus far!
“My kids and I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop. It really rekindled my 6 year old daughter’s interest in creating art. It introduced her to new ideas and creative ways. She was really excited to share her art with other people. When one of her pieces was shown amongst a slide show she shouted out, “Hey, that’s mine!” She thought that was really fun. The other day she asked, “When can I do more?”
– Parent participant, ArtistsInspire online workshops, spring/summer 2020
ELAN’s ArtEd program has been invited to participate in a 3-year Youth Mental Health Initiative funded by the Fondation Lucie & André Chagnon and the Government of Quebec’s Secretariat à la Jeunesse. The overall goal of the project being managed by the Community Health & Social Services Network (CHSSN) is: “ to improve access to mental health resources and services for young English-speaking Quebecers ages 15 -29 in order to better meet their needs, especially those exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
In January 2021, Dr. Tiina Kukkonen prepared a guide to Supporting Youth Mental Health in and Through the Arts outlining some of the important ways in which the Art Education can improve Youth Mental Health. Click here to read the guide.
All Artists who will be working with youth ages 15 – 29 before March 2023 are invited to participate in the learning communities that we will facilitate. Click here to read more about the current call for participants.
From 2018-20, ACE was providing facilitation and coaching to support school leaders, community partners, arts organizations and artists from 20 schools across Quebec to plan and implement ACE projects. ACE projects take place over an extended time period, are cross-curricular and achieve education program goals in multiple subject areas.
artistsinspiregrants@quebec-elan.org
In 2019, ELAN launched the ArtistsInspire Grants (AIG) program in collaboration with LEARN as a new source of funding for official-language minority schools to hire artists. The $1500 ArtistsInspire Grants will enable students and teachers to participate in hands-on creative experiences about and in the arts.
artist profiles created by August 2019
“The ultimate goal of the program is that through the hands-on creative experiences that artists facilitate, teachers, students and community members in the province are inspired to develop their creativity capacity in ways that lead to individual and community outcomes for learning, wellbeing and socio-economic development.”
– Lead Consultant, Christie Huff
If you are an artist who is interested in our programs, please contact us through artistsinspiregrants@quebec-elan.org. We want to connect with every artist who identifies as a member of the English-speaking communities of Quebec and has experience working in school settings.
ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.
We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.
ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.
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