Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC)
CORC is a learning collaboration between mental health professionals across the UK and Norway who work with children and adolescents.
Based in the Evidence Based Practice Unit (EBPU) at the Anna Freud Centre (homepage), CORC brings together a wide range of professionals working with children with psychological problems and their families.
These professionals have agreed a common approach routinely to evaluate the outcomes of their work and are committed to learning from this in order to improve practice.
The aim of CORC is to develop and pilot a model of routine evaluation of outcomes (i.e. to what degree certain courses of treatment are successful and for whom).
CORC can then use this to provide high quality information on the outcomes and value of therapeutic services for children, young people and their families, which can in turn be used service providers, commissioners and users.
Over half of all NHS services in the UK have staff who are members of this collaboration, with members from voluntary agencies also participating.
For more information about CORC go to www.corc.uk.net.