In partnership with Creative Recovery Network, CAN launched the Creating Well collaborative research report. This is the culmination of a four-year research project, designed to harness the experience and wisdom of the community arts and cultural development (CACD) sector’s leading practitioners to grow a deeper understanding of the specific support needs for community-based artsworkers.

CACD practitioners often work in complex community settings with little preparation or adequate support for the situations they will encounter, putting them at high risk of stress, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and burnout. The report presented six key recommendations and clarified the consistent challenges faced in community-based practice and calls for the sector as a whole to evolve towards new standards of practice and a framework to better support practitioners in high performance work environments.