Resources

Future Reset is centered around enhancing mental wellbeing and social connection through art, creativity and culture, with young people leading the charge. To learn more about the evidence that supports this initiative, you can find a number of related resources below. 

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Beau Windon in a forest
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AAV Artists Talk – Beau Windon on Authenticity

AAV Artists Talk is a video series that feature Deaf and Disabled artists sharing their experience. This video features Beau Windon.
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Kath Duncan wearing a black t-shirt
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AAV Artists Talk – Kath Duncan on Pride

AV Artists Talk is a video series that feature Deaf and Disabled artists sharing their experience. This video features Kath Duncan.
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Caroline Bowditch wearing a orange jacket
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AAV Artists Talk – Caroline Bowditch on Leadership

AAV Artists Talk is a video series that feature Deaf and Disabled artists sharing their experience. This video features Caroline Bowditch.
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Olivia Muscatt smiling outside and wearing overalls
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AAV Artists Talk – Olivia Muscat on Curiosity

AAV Artists Talk is a video series that feature Deaf and Disabled artists sharing their experience. This video features Olivia Muscat. Oliva is a writer and disability arts advocate. In this video, Oliva discusses the role of curiosity in growing arts practice and being open.
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Four people standing together facing the camera and smiling. All of the people have been involved in the Mental Health Literacy Project
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Community-led approaches to mental health literacy

Creating tailored approaches to improve the mental wellbeing of young people in some of Victoria’s particularly vulnerable communities; South Sudanese, South Asian and Pasifika.
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A group of young adults sitting on chairs in a circle smiling and laughing.
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A Co-designed Youth Engagement Evaluation Framework

VicHealth’s Future Healthy initiative, has centred the voices and experiences of children and young people, especially following the impacts of COVID.
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Principles of co-creating arts with community

VicHealth's Future Reset program is part of a worldwide effort to make people feel more connected, happier and healthier through art projects co-designed with the local communities. It is based on three core principles – equity, co-design and partnership.
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Portrait shot of Idil Ali smiling to camera. They are wearing a gold necklace, a top with acab and a green hijab
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Melbourne Summit – Idil Ali

A keynote by Idil Ali (youth worker, spoken word poet and arts activist): Collective resistance for collective wellbeing.
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Four people sit on a panel on stage. On screen is a quote from the movie Office Space saying "yeah, if you could keep doing team leader work at entry level pay and accept the fact that you're never getting promoted, that'd be great."
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Melbourne Summit Panel Discussion - Connective Tissue

Join this youth led discussion on what supportive structures need to look and feel like when young people come into institutional creative spaces with Arty Owens (Arts Access), Nickila DeSilva (Next Wave), Dilpreet Kaur Taggar(South Asian Today) and Evrim Sen (SYN Media).
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A panel of four is sitting on a stage. Behind them is a projector screen with the words "Future Reset Youth Summit" in bold and the words Anchoring Wellbeing through creativity and connection below.
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Melbourne Summit Panel Discussion - Making your Role Redundant

In Conversation session led by Yasbelle Kerkow and Roshani Jayawardana: Making your role redundant, exploring succession planning with and for young people with Karen Jackson Moondani Balluk, Marion Singer, with contributions from Shantel Wetherall and Nithya Nagarajan.
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a group of people with lots of colourful knit jumpers on have put their hands all together in the spirit of teamwork.
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The Collective Impact model

Collective Impact is a framework for collaboration that engages communities, sectors and groups in place-based settings to address a complex social issue. And ultimately create social change.
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A woman wearing a grey checked top and a headscarf is making a pot out of clay.
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How art improves mental health and wellbeing

The arts have long been recognised as a powerful tool to promote mental wellbeing and connection. That’s why we started Future Reset.