Learning and training routes for staff, for measuring children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing
CORC provide a range of ways in which you, and your staff, can engage with knowledge, key concepts and core competencies in working with outcome measures and feedback tools, and interpreting and using data to improve services.
Within our website here are free bitesize modules, in addition to our free e-Learning module in six easy to follow parts. All of which are a useful place to start.
We also design and deliver an online schedule of training across the year, providing you with an in-person [group] opportunity to meet one of our Regional Improvement Officers, and have input and discussion within the training. Each of these 90 minute webinars are just £25, or of course, if your organisation is a CORC member, these are free to staff, and just require you to sign up with your discount code.
Relevance of trainings
We have summarised the below to help you navigate which order to book and attend these in, for best relevance to you and your service or organisation that provides wellbeing or mental health support, or interventions for children and young people:
An Introduction to outcome measures is recommended for any setting providing support for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, and for those that are new to using outcome measures in their practice; as part of your organisation's induction process for new staff; or as a refresher. Attendees have told us “they are a very good introduction to routine outcome monitoring, and why they are used”, there is “lots of valuable information”, and whilst it is a “good overview of outcome measures, how to use them, and why, it also covers some of the challenges and perceptions around their use”, with “opportunities to discuss issues”.
We’d then recommend the next session to attend once you have this basis, is: Engaging young people in routine outcome monitoring, which is again suitable to all staff, and explores how young people can be meaningfully involved in the process and practice of outcome measurement; what young people think of them; and the importance of a right’s-based approach. This has helped attendees to have a “really clear rationale as to why routine outcome measures are important” for young people and is “informative, helpful, easy to follow and interesting”.
Improving your Practice, using Outcome Measures tools is the next step. This webinar focusses on using a combination of measures to improve your practice and getter better results. Facilitating you to practice more deliberately, with the specific goal of improving performance for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. It provides “useful examples of outcome measures and an emphasis on the importance of context and wider conversations with young people” and attendees have told us that this session has provided them with “lots to go away and think about, and try out”.
For those who are able to make decisions about which outcome measures to use within a support pathway, service or intervention, Choosing appropriate outcome measures for an intervention or service is recommended. You will explore the various types of outcome and feedback tools that are available, and how to follow a simple process to identify those that fit the needs of the support work you are providing. Previous attendees have reflected that this has given them a “clearer framework to guide decision making around evaluation, how to choose and how to implement”, with “lots of signposting to useful information available”. The “breadth of knowledge in this field” was demonstrated through being able to “answer any question” within the training session.
For Line Managers, Team Leaders and Supervisors, we also have a session that focusses on the Use of measures in supervision. Providing you with practical strategies and skills for embedding the use of measures data in supervision settings, including barriers and solutions, and using measures and feedback to be meaningful. This training “provokes thought and ideas around the development and structure of supervision”.
We always welcome feedback from those who attend our training, our members and network, and from recent feedback we have listened to what else may be beneficial to those working in various different settings. So in addition to the above trainings, which we deliver across the year, we will be adding in some new trainings soon too. More on that soon....
You can find the upcoming dates for each of these in our Training and Events section here:
2025 schedule of CORC training
Tailored training
If it works better for your service to have a more bespoke training, that could include elements of our scheduled programmes but also tailored specifically to your setting’s needs. This can be arranged for all sized organisations, making it relevant to your particular service and staff.
This can be delivered in person, online, or recordings created to be used repeatedly for staff.
Here are a few examples of tailored training CORC worked collaboratively with to deliver: 
We created and delivered an interactive online half-day staff training workshop for Children’s Society that was delivered at multiple times for multiple teams to engage in, ensuring that all staff had the opportunity to develop their capabilities. For more details on this, see here.
We created and delivered training for Noa that focussed on the individual measures, and also enabled open discussion about how the selected outcome measures could be integrated into their established system of routine outcome monitoring. For more details on this, see here.
We designed, developed and produced a routine outcome measurement training video for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust, who are long standing CORC members, to be embedded into staff training and new staff induction. To best engage staff with key pieces of information and make it easy to access all the resources and support they’d need. For more details on this, see here.
If you have any questions about outcome and feedback measures training, just get in touch.
Becoming a member is a cost effective way to ensure all of your staff can attend all of our training sessions. Do get in touch to discuss this as an option.