Why join CORC?

CORC helps services and organisations from across statutory and voluntary, community and charity sectors, that support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in a variety of ways: 

• To measure and demonstrate impact  

• To analyse and report on outcomes data so that it is relevant and useful to different stakeholders or audiences 

• To use outcomes data with service users, in teams and at service level to improve the quality and effectiveness of support  

• To develop staff competence and confidence with outcome measures and data  

• To developing best practice implementation of outcome measures and data 

CORC members believe that using evidence in a meaningful way will enable us to make child and youth mental health support more effective, responsive, and focussed on the outcomes that are important to children and young people. In joining CORC you become part of a learning collaboration whose members are committed to helping to achieve this goal by pooling their data, sharing their learning and insight, and reflecting together to benefit those in need of support.

Our members come from a wide range of contexts, including voluntary and public sector mental health service providers, schools and councils, professional bodies and research institutions from across Europe and beyond. This makes our network a rich, informed and stimulating hub for debating the latest developments and findings in the field.  Bringing together different perspectives and sectors offers us great opportunities to strengthen approaches and learn from one another.

We have a number of different types of membership to suit organisations’ varying sizes and levels of activity in this area. Membership provides opportunities to engage in events and training, receive advice and support tailored to your needs, and to share your outcome data to contribute to, and benefit from, CORC analyses, benchmarking and research. Our team are specialists in outcome research and in using feedback and evidence to improve provision.

Of course, if membership is not quite right, or now is not the right time to join, you can work with us on a particular project through our consultancy offer. 

What could membership provide for you? 

• Support from a named Regional Officer tailored to your organisation's needs

• Analysis of your service data and a bespoke annual report

• Free or discounted places on training courses and at CORC events.

• Online resources to support the use of outcome and feedback measures

• Access to a Best Practice Framework Self-Assessment tool leading towards CORC Accreditation 

• Opportunity to contribute to CORC's research findings and shape policy recommendations at a national and local level 

Members commit to:

• focus on outcomes that are important for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing

• use outcome data to inform direct clinical work

• share learning with other members of the collaboration

How to join 

For further information on the different types of membership:

Full membership details

Associate membership details

If you'd like to arrange a free 20-30 minute conversation with one of our friendly CORC Regional Improvement Officers to discuss your organisation’s needs and how we can help, please get in touch at CORC@annafreud.org to let us know some dates and times that work for you. No obligations, just an exploratory and informative opportunity to chat.

Not ready to join yet

If you’re interested in receiving CORC updates, research findings and advance information about forthcoming events, join the free CORC Network and receive our newsletter updates.

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Resources for schools are available in the Wellbeing in education section of our website, including details about how to survey staff with our Wellbeing Measurement for Schools service, and access to our free modular resources to survey pupils. 

Participate in Wellbeing Measurement for Schools

Read more about how organisations have used their membership to improve their services

• Developing an online data collection portal at Place2Be

• Seeing the whole picture: Childhood First reflect on their approach to integrating different types of data about a child's progress

• Bringing CORC to Canada: IWK Health Centre implements routine outcome monitoring

• Using the CORC Best Practice Framework - Interview with Hackney Children and Families Service (CFS)

• Supporting community providers in the South West to collect and manage data

• Interpreting outcomes with commissioners: Homerton University Hospital rethinks quarterly reports