Capabilities Framework
Our Capabilities Framework for Evaluation provides a structured approach to gathering and evidencing creative health impacts by aligning qualitative and quantitative evidence to four interconnected domains: work and learning, health and vitality, relationships, and community. The framework is designed to gather stories of lived experience, practice, impact and change generated through creative health activity, and to curate these into coherent, comparable narratives that can operate at multiple scales.
Capability domains
Work and Learning
Captures shifts in skills, productivity, employment readiness, and purposeful daily activity.
Health and Vitality
Measures changes in mental health, physical wellbeing, and overall personal resilience.
Relationships
Evaluates improvements in social connections, reduced loneliness, and family or peer bonding.
Community
Assesses local pride, civic participation, and the strengthening of neighbourhood support networks