Gallery visits do good for youth mental health

Significant improvements in youth mental health have been recorded through AGNSW’s Culture Dose for Kids program.
Participants in Culture Dose for Kids youth mental health program at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. A group of kids sitting on the floor of a gallery looking up as a guide points at an artwork.

A Culture Dose for Kids session delivers positive impacts on youth mental health and has been shown to significantly reduce anxiety in children aged nine to 12, finds the latest research conducted by Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) and the Black Dog Institute.

The free program has been designed to help children experiencing anxiety (without a clinical diagnosis), and delivered to more than 540 parents and children at AGNSW and across 14 galleries in regional NSW, including Lismore Regional Gallery, Murray Art Museum in Albury and Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_