GS CALTEX CSR PROJECTS: “MAUM TALK TALK”
GS Caltex, one of the most competitive energy companies in Korea collaborated with Arts & Community Network and made a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) contract to provide children and adolescents with arts therapy services for minimum of 3 years.
This is a national based project designed to provide psychological stability to at-risk youth from low socioeconomic status through arts therapy service offered at leading social service agencies in 13 major cities of S. Korea. Involvement of local social agencies made it easier for children to receive post treatment services. The program includes art therapy, drama therapy and dance/movement therapy services and encourages collaboration of each field to best serve the needs of children. It also provides short-term therapy services through seasonal arts therapy camp programs.
This project is unique in the sense that it emphasizes performance quality of the participating therapist, therefore much effort was invested in recruiting competent therapists. It also provides weekly intensive training and thorough performance evaluation to the therapists. The project is operated under four departments; research team, training team, therapy performing team and camp team. Seungsook Park is involved in the training team, camp team and research team. Along with three other prominent professors in drama therapy and dance/movement therapy, Seungsook Park provides training and supervision to the participating therapists and designs and leads the camp program.
More importantly, Seungsook Park provides over all administrative consultation based on her extensive research and evaluation experience on various funded art therapy programs. She consistently emphasizes human resource development as a critical contributing factor and takes a lead in development of on-going training program for therapists.
GS Caltex, one of the most competitive energy companies in Korea collaborated with Arts & Community Network and made a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) contract to provide children and adolescents with arts therapy services for minimum of 3 years.
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This project is unique in the sense that it emphasizes performance quality of the participating therapist, therefore much effort was invested in recruiting competent therapists. It also provides weekly intensive training and thorough performance evaluation to the therapists. The project is operated under four departments; research team, training team, therapy performing team and camp team. Seungsook Park is involved in the training team, camp team and research team. Along with three other prominent professors in drama therapy and dance/movement therapy, Seungsook Park provides training and supervision to the participating therapists and designs and leads the camp program.
More importantly, Seungsook Park provides over all administrative consultation based on her extensive research and evaluation experience on various funded art therapy programs. She consistently emphasizes human resource development as a critical contributing factor and takes a lead in development of on-going training program for therapists.
SEOUL ART SPACE-SEONGBUK: “HEALING ART LAB”
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture manages 16 Arts Spaces throughout the city of Seoul. Each Arts Space runs community based programs that best serves the needs of the community. Seongbuk Arts Space is one of them. It was reconstructed and remodeled from the old Seongbuk Community Health center, thus emphasizes healing through arts.
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture manages 16 Arts Spaces throughout the city of Seoul. Each Arts Space runs community based programs that best serves the needs of the community. Seongbuk Arts Space is one of them. It was reconstructed and remodeled from the old Seongbuk Community Health center, thus emphasizes healing through arts.
Since the blend of art and art therapy is an emerging concept, there has been confusion in defining the roles of each artist, art educator and arts therapist. Due to lack of understanding regarding how healing is differentiated from therapy, the programs tended to advertise just an experiential art activity. Although each program seems to develop its own identity and clearer sense of purpose, some difficulties are still presented as grey areas.
Since the blend of art and art therapy is an emerging concept, there has been confusion in defining the roles of each artist, art educator and arts therapist. Due to lack of understanding regarding how healing is differentiated from therapy, the programs tended to advertise just an experiential art activity. Although each program seems to develop its own identity and clearer sense of purpose, some difficulties are still presented as grey areas.
Another difficulty lies in the programs led by artists. These art programs also actively call for community people’s participation under the theme of healing and communication. However, the community’s involvement may distort or weaken the artist’s perception and identity in the artwork and the outlook seems to become quite similar to that of arts therapy. Artists at Seongbuk Arts Space face an important question of how to convey own message and maintain strong artist identity through art making with community, yet have the art making process demonstrate positive psychological changes to participants.
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture seems to recognize excellent potential for the Healing Art Lab project and plan to expand the business with Seoul City’s support. It is worth paying close attention to how the participating artists and arts therapists bring therapeutic and healing effect to various communities in Seoul as the project develops and expands. Seungsook Park values the healing power of such arts services beyond clinical interface and will invest much effort to support appropriate development of the business. Information regarding further development process of the project will be periodically updated.
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture manages 16 Arts Spaces throughout the city of Seoul. Each Arts Space runs community based programs that best serves the needs of the community. Seongbuk Arts Space is one of them. It was reconstructed and remodeled from the old Seongbuk Community Health center, thus emphasizes healing through arts.
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Since the blend of art and art therapy is an emerging concept, there has been confusion in defining the roles of each artist, art educator and arts therapist. Due to lack of understanding regarding how healing is differentiated from therapy, the programs tended to advertise just an experiential art activity. Although each program seems to develop its own identity and clearer sense of purpose, some difficulties are still presented as grey areas.
Since the blend of art and art therapy is an emerging concept, there has been confusion in defining the roles of each artist, art educator and arts therapist. Due to lack of understanding regarding how healing is differentiated from therapy, the programs tended to advertise just an experiential art activity. Although each program seems to develop its own identity and clearer sense of purpose, some difficulties are still presented as grey areas.
Another difficulty lies in the programs led by artists. These art programs also actively call for community people’s participation under the theme of healing and communication. However, the community’s involvement may distort or weaken the artist’s perception and identity in the artwork and the outlook seems to become quite similar to that of arts therapy. Artists at Seongbuk Arts Space face an important question of how to convey own message and maintain strong artist identity through art making with community, yet have the art making process demonstrate positive psychological changes to participants.
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture seems to recognize excellent potential for the Healing Art Lab project and plan to expand the business with Seoul City’s support. It is worth paying close attention to how the participating artists and arts therapists bring therapeutic and healing effect to various communities in Seoul as the project develops and expands. Seungsook Park values the healing power of such arts services beyond clinical interface and will invest much effort to support appropriate development of the business. Information regarding further development process of the project will be periodically updated.
JP MORGAN CSR PROJECT: “COLOR YOUR EXPRESSION ART THERAPY SERVICE”
JP Morgan, Korea provided fund for an art therapy program that serves economically disadvantaged children. Based on JP Morgan Chase & Company’s social responsibility concepts, community development, education and art & culture, JP Morgan Korea collaborated with Arts and Community Network and designed an art therapy program called “Color Your Expression” that help children expand their social skills and emotional competency.
The program served 120 low-socioeconomic children with age range from 10 to 12 for a year from 2011 to 2012. PARTI, in a collaborative relationship with Arts and Community Network, was responsible for design and development of the program, recruiting art therapists and supervising the entire process. JP Morgan Korea and Arts and Community Network participated in evaluating performing sites where the program is offered, selecting participants and marketing of the program.
The program served 120 low-socioeconomic children with age range from 10 to 12 for a year from 2011 to 2012. PARTI, in a collaborative relationship with Arts and Community Network, was responsible for design and development of the program, recruiting art therapists and supervising the entire process. JP Morgan Korea and Arts and Community Network participated in evaluating performing sites where the program is offered, selecting participants and marketing of the program.
The program included five stages as following
● Rapport building stage: establish rapport and increase mutual interaction
● Introduction to group experience stage: understand differences
● Emerging group dynamic stage: understand relationship among the group through power struggle
● Growth of group stage: explore emotions and grown through mutual communication
● Termination stage: discover a new sense of self and group
The whole program was offered in 15 groups at different local social agencies throughout Seoul and Kyungi-do. 8 out of the 15 groups had 22 numbers of sessions and the other 7 groups had 35 numbers of sessions. In the later groups, additional sessions were provided to further process unresolved issues of the participants. The earlier groups with 22 sessions were evaluated to be insufficient time to fully address participants’ emotional difficulties precipitated from the group dynamics.
On-going program evaluation was performed simultaneously. To evaluate appropriateness and efficacy of the program, participation rate and each agency’s feedback were collected. Progress notes, observation on participants’ changes and pre/post self-esteem assessment were also collected. The followings are some of the results from the evaluation:
● The overall participation rate was 95%.
● Overall rate for number of participants who demonstrated significant progress was 63.4 %. The areas of progress include interpersonal relationship, self-expression and behavioral and academic improvement (22 sessions group: 39.6%, 35 sessions group: 92.8%).
● Overall rate for number of participants who self reported on positive changes (personality, relationship and self-concept). was 63.4% (22 sessions group: 41.7%, 35 sessions group: 88.1%).
● Overall rate for number of participants who were reported to demonstrate positive changes by therapists was 63.3% (22 sessions group: 52.1%, 35 sessions group: 76.2 %).
In summary, a large percentage of the group participants were reported to present clinically significant increase in self-esteem. It is PARTI’s suggestion that duration and frequency are critical factors to demonstrate efficacy of the therapy service and a minimum number of 30-35 sessions needs to be secured.
JP Morgan, Korea provided fund for an art therapy program that serves economically disadvantaged children. Based on JP Morgan Chase & Company’s social responsibility concepts, community development, education and art & culture, JP Morgan Korea collaborated with Arts and Community Network and designed an art therapy program called “Color Your Expression” that help children expand their social skills and emotional competency.
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The program served 120 low-socioeconomic children with age range from 10 to 12 for a year from 2011 to 2012. PARTI, in a collaborative relationship with Arts and Community Network, was responsible for design and development of the program, recruiting art therapists and supervising the entire process. JP Morgan Korea and Arts and Community Network participated in evaluating performing sites where the program is offered, selecting participants and marketing of the program.
The program included five stages as following
● Rapport building stage: establish rapport and increase mutual interaction
● Introduction to group experience stage: understand differences
● Emerging group dynamic stage: understand relationship among the group through power struggle
● Growth of group stage: explore emotions and grown through mutual communication
● Termination stage: discover a new sense of self and group
The whole program was offered in 15 groups at different local social agencies throughout Seoul and Kyungi-do. 8 out of the 15 groups had 22 numbers of sessions and the other 7 groups had 35 numbers of sessions. In the later groups, additional sessions were provided to further process unresolved issues of the participants. The earlier groups with 22 sessions were evaluated to be insufficient time to fully address participants’ emotional difficulties precipitated from the group dynamics.
On-going program evaluation was performed simultaneously. To evaluate appropriateness and efficacy of the program, participation rate and each agency’s feedback were collected. Progress notes, observation on participants’ changes and pre/post self-esteem assessment were also collected. The followings are some of the results from the evaluation:
● The overall participation rate was 95%.
● Overall rate for number of participants who demonstrated significant progress was 63.4 %. The areas of progress include interpersonal relationship, self-expression and behavioral and academic improvement (22 sessions group: 39.6%, 35 sessions group: 92.8%).
● Overall rate for number of participants who self reported on positive changes (personality, relationship and self-concept). was 63.4% (22 sessions group: 41.7%, 35 sessions group: 88.1%).
● Overall rate for number of participants who were reported to demonstrate positive changes by therapists was 63.3% (22 sessions group: 52.1%, 35 sessions group: 76.2 %).
In summary, a large percentage of the group participants were reported to present clinically significant increase in self-esteem. It is PARTI’s suggestion that duration and frequency are critical factors to demonstrate efficacy of the therapy service and a minimum number of 30-35 sessions needs to be secured.
KOREA ARTS AND CULTURES EDUCATION SERIVICE: PROGRAM EVALUATION
Korea Arts and Culture Education (KACE) initiated an expressive therapy project in 2009 by accepting proposals from various expressive therapy providers. They also entrusted an evaluation of their preliminary expressive therapy program to PATRI.
Seungsook Park was responsible for preliminary consultation, selection and evaluation of each program and final report of the evaluation. Under Seungsook Park’s direction, the evaluation team consisted of six working professionals who were dispatched to each site where the programs were conducted. They collected needed information for evaluation through interviews, written reports and live supervision. The evaluation process included thorough analysis of the program contents, development of evaluation model and tools, live supervision of the program sites, measurement of the result and potentiality, assessment of effectiveness of the over all integrative expressive therapy program and providing visions.
KACE has been attentive to integrative expressive therapy and paid full support for development of the system. Nevertheless, the evaluation suggested that the integrative approach revealed decreased effectiveness. The core difficulty lied in a lack of qualified therapist for integrative approach. In many cases, therapists from different field experienced difficulty collaborating on a session and maintaining well-distributed responsibilities, which negatively affected implementation of intervention.
There were also reported lacks of supervision and on-site management, which resulted poor participation rate and complaints from the beneficiaries. The support fund was allocated to each therapy groups regardless of result of the program and this may have caused the performers to pay less-endeavors in completing the program successfully.
The labor cost for therapists were inadequate amount compared to sufficient over all fund. From the thorough inspection of the budget spend, the fund does not seem to be appropriately contributed and spent. Further analysis and evaluation can be found in Seungsook Park’s research article “A study on improvement of quality for funded art therapy programs in Korea.”
Korea Arts and Culture Education (KACE) initiated an expressive therapy project in 2009 by accepting proposals from various expressive therapy providers. They also entrusted an evaluation of their preliminary expressive therapy program to PATRI.
Read more…
KACE has been attentive to integrative expressive therapy and paid full support for development of the system. Nevertheless, the evaluation suggested that the integrative approach revealed decreased effectiveness. The core difficulty lied in a lack of qualified therapist for integrative approach. In many cases, therapists from different field experienced difficulty collaborating on a session and maintaining well-distributed responsibilities, which negatively affected implementation of intervention.
There were also reported lacks of supervision and on-site management, which resulted poor participation rate and complaints from the beneficiaries. The support fund was allocated to each therapy groups regardless of result of the program and this may have caused the performers to pay less-endeavors in completing the program successfully.
The labor cost for therapists were inadequate amount compared to sufficient over all fund. From the thorough inspection of the budget spend, the fund does not seem to be appropriately contributed and spent. Further analysis and evaluation can be found in Seungsook Park’s research article “A study on improvement of quality for funded art therapy programs in Korea.”
