STAA uses the arts to improve the quality of life of older people with mental health needs and people with dementia in Sandwell.
STAA is a professional arts organisation providing participatory arts activities for older people with mental health needs, people with dementia and their carers to achieve health and wellbeing outcomes.
STAA gives older people with mental health needs the opportunity to directly participate in arts activities such as painting, drawing, arts and crafts, music and dance.
STAA delivers individually tailored programmes of creative activities for people on a one-to-one basis in their own homes and delivers sessions for groups in hospitals, day centres and community venues to introduce new hobbies and revive past interests. Participants experience improvements in their health and well being through engaging with the arts.
STAA enables people to access cultural events. It holds its own events and exhibitions to positively promote the creativity and achievements of older people with mental health needs.
STAA is a winner of a NIMHE (National Institute of Mental Health in England) Positive Practice Award for its work in Older People’s mental health in 2005.
STAA appears in the Department of Health and Arts Council England’s joint publication ‘Prospectus for Arts in Health’ (April 2007)
All the artwork on STAA’s website has been made by older people with mental health needs.
Alan Johnson, the Secretary of State for Health hailed STAA as a 'lifeline' for its arts-based services for older people with mental health problems or dementia at the launch of 'Open to All' training package for art gallery staff September 2008. Read the speech here.
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STAA's Annual Report 2011 is available. Click here for the report.
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‘Fountain's Jolly Inn’ DVD
This film is about the making of a pub themed area inside a residential home for older people with mental health needs. The film shows how a little imagination can go a long way in creating an interesting and stimulating environment in a residential home and how the transformation of a space can enrich the lives of the people who live in it.
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