Arts and Healing: Creative Forces at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Hospital

“The goal of everything that we do as a military medical service is to support a member in doing their job effectively. It’s critical that we provide evidence-based, safe, effective patient care … Here at JBER, we know that music and art facilitate healing in a very powerful way … You can see the brain waking up as the patients are engaged in these therapies and regaining their capabilities substantially over time." 

~ Major Jonathan Brown, Mental Health Flight Commander
673RD Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, U.S. Air Force
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson 

In this video from the Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, we travel to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, to learn how art therapy and music therapy are transforming the lives of service members at JBER’s Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic. 

The program has extended clinical treatment into the community by partnering with Anchorage Concert Association, giving service members and veterans additional tools for lasting recovery.