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COMMUNITY RECOVERY: MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS,
CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS, AND
HEALTH REFORM
Sandra Kirkwood, B.Occ.Thy, B.Music, M.Phil.
15 July, 2011
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Community Recovery – Qld Floods
Towns affected in Qld,
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
News ReportsABCPhotoGallery
NASA Earth Observatory
Role of Occupational Therapists
The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate successfully in the activities of everyday life.
This enhances longer term national capacity and self-reliance in disaster affected countries and beyond.
Role of Music Health Professionals
Can be any discipline appropriately qualified to:Adapt to impairment of body structure and
diseaseEnhance functional ability to be able to
participate in music activitiesOptimise environments to support music
health and well-beingPromote physical, social, and cultural accessEngage in product design and developmentResearch, plan and develop policy to
maximise health and well-being in music/health industry
Aims of Action Research
Community recovery sing-a-long
Initiated through Music Health email group & professional networking with communities
From 31 January-30 June, 2011. Aim for maximum social health impact for minimal input.
Record & share learnings
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Research Questions
What capacity does community have for creating/singing songs to support recovery?
What is appropriate role for Music Health professionals in crisis with limited resources?
What occurred in this case study? Who participated? What did we learn?How does this inform future
practice/research?
Precedents – Literature Review
Fire Cycle by Bev McAlister, Victoria, Dandenong Ranges.
World Federation of Occupational Therapists Situational Analysis of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster (2004).
Methods
Invited community members & professionals in Brisbane, Toowoomba and Ipswich
To create verses about their own flood experience to the tune of "Click! Goes the Shears.“
Supported by occupational therapist/ ethnomusicologist.
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Participants: 8 Song Creators
Chair – Indigenous Corporation (B)Life Line counsellor (B)Counsellor in private practice (I)Behaviour support teacher (I)Occupational Therapist / Musician (I)Teacher / Parent of child with LD (I)Community volunteer – singer (I)Student Nurse (T)
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Location of song creators
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Methods
Monitored through e-mail dialogue with volunteers
Collated descriptive feedbackSupportive counselling.Facilitation & multi-media recording by volunteers.
Cost: Minimal-online supportEvaluation and reporting.
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Leichhardt-One Mile Community Centre
Performances initiated by community:
7 March4 April
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Sing-a-long Participants
About 12 people participated in singing Age range from 20's to 70's, with one
child of about 10yrs; Multicultural group, all members of
Support Links;A few members were affected by the
flood, and others had supported people who had been affected by the floods;
Facilitated by Astrid TholensVideo by Rod Taylor – consent limited.
Feedback from group facilitator
“I felt the singing of the song was enjoyed by all, but all were stressed about being filmed and the possibility of being shown on the internet;
took a while to practise the song, and work out the phrasing with the music,
some felt it was too long.”
Crisis •Observation & keeping abreast of latest news•Planning with stakeholders
Response•Invitation to participate in social action•Support and enabling•Monitoring and review
Outcomes •Evaluation•Critical reflection on practice
•Reporting•Place-based planning with stakeholders•Contributed to local government Community Plan
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Creative Process
Gantt Chart–timeline
EVENT ON TIMELINE JAN FEB MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULYFlood ToowoombaFlood IpswichFlood BrisbaneLiterature review - FaceBookMet with local government & com'yAdvised professionals/email groupsInvited people to participateEmail log of feedback/responseObtained consent of song creators
Song creators lyrics posted on webAdvised local governments of progressMonitoring news & developmentsEmail contact with participants/peersMet with facilitators/interested peopleMet with DoC flood recovery managerCommunity group volunteered to performDate of first performanceCollaborative changes to lyrics-remote
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Analysis of Lyrics – peoples perceptions
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You can sing your own flood story to the tune of “Click! Goes the Shears”
Critical reflection on practice
The process was a significant innovation toward reforming health care
Introduced a remote method of community-based rehabilitation service delivery.
Creative Community response – community has capacity to assist in recovery.
Limited professional capacity to assist community members.
Challenge: Integration with whole place-based response; inter-agency communication.
Time-limited response. Long term services.
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Outcomes – benefits
A new way of supporting communities to self-manage their own social and emotional recovery after flood disaster.
Music Health professional can inspire community engagement and support the creative collaboration through remote email networking – to a limited degree.
Low cost CBR intervention that was carried out by volunteers in the absence of funding allocated to community music projects or research.
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Outcome – Role of Music Health
Music Health professionals important role in:
Initiating, contributing, facilitatingEnabling the creative collaboration;Being available for supportive
counselling, ethics review - MOUMediating the creative process Encouraging buoyancy, resilience
and re-building of communities. Supporting community transition
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Recommendations
Responses need to be: Effectively monitored/channelled to maximise
effectiveness and safetySupported by all levels of governmentImplemented by well-informed professionals in
community collaborationIntegrated with the broader place-based disaster
responsePlanned & evaluated during and after crisisCritical reflection on practice is of value.Evidence-based research vs action researchRole flexibility: enhances transition/relocation.
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Further Recommendations
Analyse community cultural development - crisisCritically review further case studiesDraft regional guidelines for response and
communication involving arts/music professionalsDevelop Action Plans – service integrationBudget for skill development and training to
support Creative Communities and involvement of music health professionals
Consider frameworks for culturally engaged community music (Kirkwood, 2009 thesis).
Allow communities to self-organise response in their chosen time frame: “Call the tune”
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www.musichealth.com.au kirkwood13@bigpond.com
CITATION FOR THIS PRESENTATION
Kirkwood S. (2011). Community recovery: musical inspirations, creative collaborations, and health reform. In: 2011 Primary Health Care Research Conference: Program & Abstracts. Primary Health Care Research and Information Service, Australia. www.phcris.org.au/conference/browse.php?id=7048