The CORC Forum is CORC's flagship event each year, which runs for half a day and with a large amount of attendees. It brings together members and colleagues from the research, mental health and education sector, featuring inspirational speakers, exciting topics and discussions and is the ideal event to expand your knowledge of mental health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people: based on experience and research.
This year the CORC Forum takes places on Thursday 21 November 2024, 09:30 to 13:00.
Attendance is free to CORC members, with a fee for non-members. Many of you attend each year, and we of course welcome anyone who hasn’t been before too. This will be an online event, making it easily accessible to those across the UK and in other countries, with opportunity for networking during the event.
[Reflections from last year’s forum can be found here].
2024 CORC Forum
We look forward to welcoming Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou, Strategic Co-Lead and Programme Director, Anna Freud and University College London, as our keynote speaker (see bio below), who will explain the importance of a neurodiversity affirming and informed approach to measuring emotion regulation in neurodivergent students and the concept of resilience. She will also share development of a new self-report questionnaire co-designed with young people with a diagnosis of autism and/or ADHD – the My Emotions in School Index (MESI).
Kate Dalzell, Head of CORC will provide an update of our work across the last year, and areas of focus. Rachael Stemp, our Participation in Research Officer will lead a discussion alongside peer researchers and young research advisory group members to explore what meaningful participation means in the context of mental health, drawing on examples from the Kailo project.
The event will also feature a presentation from Francesca Speakman, Project Manager for #BeeWell in the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, sharing great work taking place there to act on young people’s feedback about their wellbeing at a regional level. Plus we will have a session on recent research findings about what works to support mental health in education settings, and insight from CORC member: Barnardo's about their journey to develop their outcomes framework, within their multiple services framework.
The full agenda with times will be provided in our October newsletter.
Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou bio:
Georgia is a neurodivergent academic who has a PhD in Developmental Psychology and Mental Health, is the Founder of the University College London (UCL) Group in Research in Relationships and an Associate Professor at UCL. She is the Co-Strategic Lead and Programme Director of National Autism Trainer Programme at Anna Freud, commissioned by NHS England, which aims to improve service delivery across inpatient, community and youth justice mental health services.
She has 20 years’ experience working with autistic people and their family members and has felt the benefits of involving them at the heart of clinical and educational decision making. She has been holding therapeutic and non-therapeutic consultation roles in educational and clinical settings. Georgia has also led national and international short courses for mental health practitioners working in educational and NHS systems with young people with atypical development.
She is passionate about working with marginalised groups, service users, scholar activists and mental health services to facilitate service transformation and advance mental health practice through better cross-agency collaboration, translational research and service user participation.
CORC Members will need to book their free place(s) by emailing corc@annafreud.org.
Non-members can book using the 'Book places' link below.
Cost
| Full members | Associate members | Non-members |
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Free
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Free
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£50
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