Porch Light Evaluation / Philadelphia Community Health Project

The Porch Light Evaluation/Philadelphia Community Health Project is a comprehensive, multi- level, evaluation of the impact of public murals on distressed neighborhoods and on the individuals who create them. The project is a collaboration with Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, artists, behavioral health consumers, service providers, family members, neighborhood residents, and community-based researchers from Yale University. The project embeds community-based participatory research within a comparative outcome trials across agencies and neighborhoods in Philadelphia.