Resource library
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Understanding why young people participate in the Voices competition
Through eleven interviews with young people who entered the Voices competition, Coram found out why young people decided to apply and if their experience of the competition helped them.
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Investigating the Efficacy of Art and Music Therapy with Vulnerable Children and Young People: A Systematic Review
Sharing learning Professionals Evaluation Creative Therapies | Wednesday 25th October 2017 | Anna Ponomarenko, Jade Yap, Uzma Peeran | 58 DownloadsHow effective are art and music therapy in supporting vulnerable children and young people?
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Changing children’s lives: Coram Group Digest 2016
This year, Coram benefited more than one million children, families and professionals. Work also commenced on the creation of The Queen Elizabeth II Centre, which will open in 2018 as we celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Coram, our founder and key historic champion of children’s rights.
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Parent Champions final report
Coram evaluated Family and Childcare Trust’s Parent Champions programme aimed at encouraging the use of early years services and particularly the take-up of available childcare. The programme involved volunteers acting as Parent Champions talking to parents in the community signposting them to services.
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My Space evaluation report
Coram evaluated Welcare’s My Space, a project developed by Against Violence and Abuse (AVA) and delivered by Welcare in Bromley, London. The project worked with 7-11 year olds who had been identified as having behavioural and emotional problems and also had experienced domestic violence at home.
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Relative Experience North East Pilot: final evaluation report
Evaluation | June 2014 | Dr Roland Marden and Rebecca Bellew, Policy Research Team, Coram | 38 DownloadsThis report represents findings of an independent evaluation of the Relative Experience North East pilot kinship carer support programme, delivered by Grandparents Plus, Family Lives and the Family and Childcare Trust and funded by the Silver Dreams Fund administered by the Big Lottery Fund.
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Family Lives befriending pilot: final evaluation report
Sharing learning Professionals Evaluation | Saturday 1st June 2013 | Roland Marden, Rumi Rabindrakumar and Sophie Laws | 32 DownloadsCoram offers specialist consultancy evaluation services to a variety of institutions providing research and policy analysis, support for service evaluation, and participatory research with children, young people, parents and staff
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Community cohesion through schooling
Sharing learning Professionals Evaluation | Saturday 1st June 2013 | Dr. Kairika Karsna, Dr. Sophie Laws and Jaspreet Hayre | 29 DownloadsCoram has worked effectively in inner-city communities for many years, and aims to share what it has learnt about effective outreach to diverse populations