Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network works to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military and veteran populations exposed to trauma, as well as their families and caregivers. Read more about us.

Resources

Explore our peer-reviewed clinical research, program reports, and other educational materials below.

Creative Forces develops and shares resources to increase understanding of how clinical arts therapies and community arts engagement can promote healing for military-connected people.

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Colorful artwork using shapes such as hearts, hexagons, squares, a silhouette of a hand pointing, and more. The artwork is a series of individual square pieces assembled to make one mural.
Clinical Research

Clinical Peer-Reviewed Publications Inventory
An inventory of Creative Forces published research and scholarly manuscripts as of July 2023. Each listing includes the open access link for the article.
Education

Creative Forces Glossary
Some key terms to describe Creative Forces programs and approach.
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Community Connections Project Study Report
In 2017, Creative Forces launched its inaugural community arts engagement program. This report shares results from a study detailing how partners carried out projects. It showed benefits to both participants and organizations.

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