In addition to the resources available on the CORC website, your organisation has access to further resources. Your attendance at CORC training and events is also free. Depending on your membership, a number of people from your organisation can attend each training and event publicised.
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eLearning Module: Measuring mental wellbeing
This eLearning aims to increase the awareness, understanding and confidence of non-specialist and school staff who support the wellbeing and mental health of children or young people to access the benefits associated with measuring mental wellbeing. This free interactive short course aims to demystify and simplify the whole process of using outcomes and feedback measures to monitor mental wellbeing and is laid out in six easy to follow parts.
This course features engaging activities and quizzes to illustrate how staff can choose and use measures to monitor wellbeing and how to analyse wellbeing information to drive improvement and demonstrate effectiveness.
Participants told us:
"Mental health is always an area that can be complex so I am feeling much more confident in understanding wellbeing issues and how to support."
"The module gave a good understanding of how to introduce measures. the interactive aspect was also useful to help me see what knowledge I have gained."
"Thank you for providing this. I will share it with my colleagues."
To access the eLearning module please download these instructions and go to elearning.corc.uk.net
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Outcome and Experience Measures Hub
We list a variety of different outcome and experience measures on our website. The measures and supported information displayed on our website are intended to serve as an easily accessible resource for individuals looking for information on how to measure children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Unless otherwise stated, CORC is not the developer or copyright holder of these measures.
Please visit our Outcome and Experience Measures Hub.
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Mental healthy toolkit for schools
This toolkit aims to raise awareness amongst school and college staff of the range of validated tools that are available to help measure subjective mental wellbeing amongst the student population. This, in turn, will help school and college leaders make use of school and college level data to identify the mental wellbeing needs of students and determine how best to address these. Efforts taken by schools and colleges to promote the physical and mental health of the student population creates a virtuous circle, reinforcing attainment and achievement that in turn improves student wellbeing, enabling students to thrive and achieve their full potential.
To help school staff use the toolkit effectively, CORC Regional Officer Lee Atkins is delivering 'Measuring and Monitoring Children and Young People's Mental Wellbeing' training as part of on-going support for schools. The video can be found online below.
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Training Videos: Use of goals, outcome and experience measures
Using service user feedback and outcome tools - training videos
CORC have developed the following videos to be used in training on the use questionnaire outcome measures used in CORC+ and CYP IAPT. They are not intended to present perfect practice but rather to stimulate discussion. How might you do it differently or better? The scenarios are based on real clinical examples although the young people are played by actors in the videos. Copyright is owned by CORC and the therapists jointly who all give permission for the videos to be used in non-commercial training and CPD events.
The whole playlist of videos can be found on our YouTube Channel and on our website.
Goal Based Outcomes Training Videos
Another series of videos has been developed by the Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) Programme in conjunction with the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and the London and South East CYP-IAPT Learning Collaborative. The videos show examples of ways that practitioners and young people might work together to set and review collaborative goals. These videos are intended to provide examples of good practice and areas that could be improved; with the intention that they will facilitate discussions around goal setting.
The whole playlist of videos can be found on our YouTube Channel or our website.
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CORC Forum
Annual CORC Forum
Each year we bring together members and colleagues from the research, mental health and education sector, our annual CORC Forum, which features inspirational speakers, exciting topics and discussions. It is the ideal event to expand yours and your staff's knowledge of mental health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people.
Attendance is free to CORC members, numbers of attendees per organisation are dependant upon your membership.
Access to past recording and/or presentations are available for you to review:
2022 CORC Forum content
You can access the below recorded talks here as 6 individual recordings
You can click on each of the speakers below for their presentation slides.
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Peter Fonagy Talk: Child mental health is too important to be left to child mental health services: The implications of our changing understanding of the nature of mental health to service design and the measurement of the effectiveness of service. To access Peter Fonagy's slides, please contact us at corc@annafreud.org.
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Kate Dalzell Talk: Developments from the Child Outcomes Research Consortium
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Julian Edbrooke-Childs Talk: My Story and Me – a public mental health story telling intervention for young women and non-binary or questioning young people who have experienced high levels of mental health difficulties. (this is not yet public, so please do not share)
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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust Talk: What does it look like to lead change? Service journeys in embedding routine outcome measurement.
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IWK Healthcare Talk: What does it look like to lead change? Service journeys in embedding routine outcome measurement
Previous CORC Forums
To access previous CORC Forum content, see below:
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Training and Events
CORC Training Schedule
CORC designs and delivers a range of courses to meet the needs of individuals and organisations working to improve children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Our training programme supports professionals to build their knowledge and expertise in using outcome measures and outcome data to improve the services they provide for children and young people.
Our training schedule is regularly updated, and can be found here. As a member you can attend these for free. Depending upon your type of membership, there is an allocation enabling more than one member of staff in your organisation to attend for free.
CORC can deliver training courses designed around the specific interests or needs of your service or group of services/ practitioners. If you are interested in exploring this option please do get in touch with us: corc@annafreud.org.
CORC has worked with many organisations from the mental health sector to build awareness and knowledge-based capacity of their staff to be able to use outcome measures effectively. We can offer a range of training courses to suit the needs of your organisation or partnership, and work closely with you to develop a training programme which will be highly effective and applicable to the context in which the participants are working in.
Developing tailored training
All CORC courses can be tailored for the specific needs of an organisation, or new courses can be developed for organisations based on established and tested tools and theory. Typically, a tailored course would be developed in consultation with the organisation and key personnel. CORC will research and review the organisation's current activity, available materials, objectives, challenges faces and specific skills needs. We will then be able to design a training course and accompanying material most appropriate to the needs of the participants and the organisation's objectives. For sections of the training which use case studies or role plays, material will be developed which either uses current examples of the organisation’s partnerships, or is adapted to ensure direct relevance to the participants work.
CORC Events
CORC run in person and online events. These are focused on current research findings and in some cases these seminars are lead and/or co-produced by CORC members or young people. And they are a great opportunity to network.
This includes the CORC Forum and other bespoke seminars. As a member you will be notified of these events and attendance to these is free.
As a member you can attend these for free. Depending upon your type of membership, there is an allocation enabling more than one member of staff in your organisation to attend for free.
If you'd like your organisation to contribute to an event, please let us know:
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CORC Comparators
Drawing from the data that members have shared through CORC, we have developed a set of CORC Comparators for commonly used outcome measures. These tools provide the change reported by children and young people in the CORC dataset for each measure, allowing you to compare this with your own organisation’s data. This can help you to think about whether the outcomes in your service are in line with your expectations.
As members you can download these measures:
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Best Practice Framework
The Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC) Best Practice Framework is a set of standards, tools and guidance for ensuring the highest quality use of outcome and feedback measurement in organisations supporting children and young people’s mental health.
CORC members can request a copy of the interactive framework and bespoke implementation support free of charge or at a reduced rate depending on their level of membership. You can view a copy of this here.
As a result of implementing the Framework, organisations:
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improve outcome and feedback measurement, and ensure meaningful use of data to enhance service delivery
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develop their ability to demonstrate best practice in outcome and feedback measurement
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develop their ability to demonstrate effective use of data to improve service delivery and service user experience
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encourage/foster staff and service user participation in meaningful use of outcome and feedback measures and resulting data
For more information, please visit this section of the members area
Best Practice Framework
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Resource Hub
CORC provides a collection of resources including support for data submission, research reports, toolkits, case studies and presentations from the CORC team and events. Use the filters to select the type of resource you're looking for.
To access our free resources please visit our Resource Hub.