Armed Services Arts Partnership

Armed Services Arts Partnership

Armed Services Arts Partnership cultivates community and improves well-being for veterans, service members, military families, and caregivers through the arts. ASAP provides art classes teaching comedy, creative writing, improvisation, acting, drawing, and storytelling. A 2018 evaluation funded by BWF found that veterans and military family members who participate in ASAP programming experience increased social support, sense of purpose, resilience, and self-esteem. In 2020, NFL-BWF funding enabled ASAP to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing virtual arts programming to veterans in 45 states and five countries, and supported ASAP’s expansion into new geographic markets in San Diego and Indianapolis. This NFL-BWF Healthy Lifestyles and Creating Community (HLCC) grant will build upon that investment by delivering evidence-based arts programming to increase social support and wellbeing for 600 veterans, service members, military family members, and caregivers in Washington, DC, Hampton Roads, San Diego, and Indianapolis.