Resources

Creative Forces® uses two logic models to guide its Community Engagement program. The Grantee Project Logic Model Summary helps guide individual projects by making sure their goals and strategies are clear.

Creative Forces® uses two logic models to guide its Community Engagement program. The National Logic Model Summary helps guide the overall national program and ensures its aims, goals, and implementation strategies are clear.

A logic model is a detailed visual representation of how a program will operate and lead to change. Logic models show how program resources (inputs), activities, and outputs will lead to outcomes. Those outcomes connect to program goals.

This glossary defines key terms used to describe Creative Forces programs and approach.

In 2018, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University was commissioned by Creative Forces to conduct a literature review and needs assessment to understand how arts programming can effectively address the needs of various military-connected individuals.

An inventory of Creative Forces published research and scholarly manuscripts as of July 2023. Each listing includes the open access link for the article.

In November 2023, Creative Forces hosted the first State of the Science Summit, “Advancing Creative Arts Therapies Research for Military-Connected Populations,” at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. This two-day hybrid event brought more than 100 clinicians and researchers together to focus on the state of creative arts therapies research for military and veteran populations.

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.