CORC Newsletter Archive
2021
January 2021
Latest CORC news
- CORC and the Anna Freud Centre: working as one organisation
- New project to understand and improve wellbeing of school pupils in Greater Manchester
- Emerging evidence: Coronavirus and children and young people’s mental health – Issue 5 now available
- Recommendations from ICHOM on a set of measures for anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder in young people
- A free virtual workshop for people working with children and young people with learning disabilities, their families and networks: 12th February
- i-THRIVE Community of Practice Webinar: Developing a THRIVE-aligned Outcomes Framework, 11th February
- What’s the big idea on mental health? The Anna Freud Centre Transformation Seminars series is back!
- 5 Steps for Schools: upcoming free seminars for education providers
Our collaborations
- New briefing explores what school staff think about delivery of the HeadStart programme
- We Can Talk Video: How co-production can turn negative experiences into positive change
2020
December 2020
- Highlights from the CORC Forum 2020
- New CORC video: young people and practitioners talk about how outcome measures should be used in youth mental health
- New CORC research: exploring goal‐based data in online counselling
- New HeadStart Learning resource collates experiences of young volunteers from HeadStart partnerships during the coronavirus pandemic
- For young people: the mental health and wellbeing of boys and girls aged 11 – 14
- New booklet from the Evidence Based Practice Unit shares key research findings from the last year
- What impact does the UK Trauma Council have on the support provided for children and young people who have experience traumatic events?
November 2020
- Using outcome measures with young people from different ethnicities and in different countries
- New paper examines problem severity and waiting times for young people accessing mental health services
- Emerging evidence: coronavirus and children and young people's mental health - Issue 4 now available
- Considering a broader range of outcomes and perspectives of young people, parents, and therapists after psychotherapy for adolescent depression
- Exploring clinicians’ perspectives on harm in psychotherapy with children and young people
- Learning from HeadStart: does cross-age peer mentoring help young people with emerging mental health difficulties?
Latest CORC news
Training & events
- Looking for information on how to measure mental health? CORC offers bitesized online training modules
- 5 Steps to Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools: Understanding Need Seminar, 19th November
- New animation explaining the THRIVE Framework for system change
September 2020
- We invite you to our annual CORC Forum, 19th November
- Please help us improve: share your views about CORC
- 5 Steps for Schools: a free, evidence-based whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing
- Using the Current View Tool to inform transformation of child and youth mental health services in Norfolk and Waveney
Training & events
Our collaborations
- Mental health and the coronavirus research bite #5: supporting pupil mental health and wellbeing during the return to school
- Learning from two school-based pilot projects: children and young people's experiences of completing mental health and wellbeing measures for research
- Launch of the UK Trauma Council
- New paper: A retrospective case note review of young people in transition from adolescent medium secure units to adult services
August 2020
- The latest research on coronavirus and young people’s mental health: read our summary of the emerging findings
- How can we engage children and young people in evaluation and research? Ideas and learning from HeadStart
- We are hiring: become CORC's new Youth Engagement Officer
- We are looking for experts for co-developed videos with young people
Training & events
Our collaborations
- CORC partners with the Evidence Based Practice Unit in its commitments to promote equity, diversity and an anti-racist stance in research
- CORC team share their favourite selfcare activities for #SelfcareSummer
- How better data presentation can improve staff engagement: study by CORC member, Childhood First
- New systemic review: engaging children and young people in digital mental health interventions
July 2020
- Black Lives Matter: CORC's statement of support
- Resources for remote service delivery: questionnaires that can be filled in electronically now available on CORC website
- Improving communication between service users and services: interview with Young Champion Sophie about co-developing videos
- Common metrics for mental health?
- Outcome Research Lowdown, July 2020: Dr Jenna Jacob reflects on the latest news on the SDQ
- Supporting the Creative Youth Network to establish a measurement framework
- CORC Board Member Beth Ingram receives Diana Award
Training & events
Our collaborations
- Issue 2, Emerging Evidence briefing on Coronavirus and children and young people’s mental health
- HeadStart Heads Up: supporting young people at home: what helps young people with their mental health and wellbeing?
- Blog: the importance and challenges of measuring wellbeing in schools and colleges
- #SelfcareSummer packs for primary and secondary students
- Short survey: what do you think is important about screen time and young people’s mental health
June 2020
- How are you adjusting to using outcome & experience measures in remote work? New CORC guidance
- Responding to lockdown: colleagues from Belfast Health and Social Care Trust share their journey and reflections on service change, outcome monitoring, and future outlook
- Does completing an online wellbeing survey change how pupils are feeling?
- From the CORC team: Luís Costa da Silva reflects on his role as Research Associate at CORC
- For CORC members: data submission and reports sign-up for 2020-21
Training
Our collaborations
- Emerging evidence: Coronavirus and children and young people’s mental health
- Universities UK and CORC launch new mental health self-assessment tool to better support staff and students
- Thriving Plus: a useful resource during the coronavirus pandemic
- New EBPU research bite: supporting children and young people with unplanned endings
- Scoping review investigates essential elements of shared decision-making in parent-involved interventions
- Exploring contextual influences on teachers' self-management of stress and use of digital support
April 2020
- CORC in a context of coronavirus
- CORC and AFC young champions co-develop videos about the meaning and use of outcome measures
- We welcome Olivia Wild – please reach out to CORC’s first Youth Engagement Officer
- Project update: best practice in gaining meaningful feedback from CYP-LD
- Call Out: what type of interventions do you deliver? Get in touch with us!
Our collaborations
- New Anna Freud Centre coronavirus resources to support mental health
- Are you delivering attachment interventions? Please complete this survey to inform new research
- New meta-analysis on the effectiveness of psychological interventions in improving emotional regulation in youth
- New study suggests promising effects for young people accessing internet-based version of psychodynamic therapies
- Evidence review: social prescribing in children and young people
Training
February 2020
- We need your feedback on outcome measures you use with 18-25 year old mental health service users
- Assessing projected savings from CAMHS services - new exploration using CORC data
- Jenna Jacob blog: how should we define 'recovery' in mental health?
- We welcome new Research Assistant (Data) - Rosie Singleton
- New paper - outcomes of routine mental health care: meta-analysis based on 38 studies
- Exploring "precision medicine" approaches to child and adolescent mental health: predicting treatment outcome and getting to big data
- Shining a light on risk and protective factors: young people's experiences
- New Anna Freud Centre animation and resources for schools and colleges
- 50% CORC member discount for the annual Mental Health Conference 2020 at Royal Society of Medicine in London
- CORC Training Session: Understanding your data from outcome measures, 5th March 2020
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