Lunch & Learn: Parental Mental Health & Returning to Work

🧠 Parental Mental Health & Returning to Work – Lunch & Learn (Taster Session)

Hosted by The Happy Mums Foundation

Duration: 30 minutes

Location: Online via Microsoft Teams

Ticket Price: Early Bird: Free, General Admission: £5 per person
Early Bird tickets are available for the initial 5 tickets.

How often do you ask: How are you, Mum? How are you, Dad?

Returning to work after having a baby can be one of the most emotionally complex transitions in a person’s life. Yet, parental mental health is often overlooked in workplace wellbeing strategies.

This taster session offers a powerful introduction to perinatal mental health and its impact on employees returning to work.

Who Should Attend?

• HR professionals
• Line managers
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Diversity & Inclusion leads
• Anyone passionate about workplace wellbeing

What You’ll Learn

• Key statistics on parental mental health and the workforce
• What perinatal mental health really means—and how it affects families
• Real-life stories from parents navigating the return to work
• How mental health challenges can show up in the workplace
• Practical ways to support colleagues and create a more inclusive culture

Why Attend?

• Gain insight into a topic that affects 39% of the workforce
• Understand how to spot signs of struggle and respond with empathy
• Learn how your organisation can remove barriers to support
• Discover how Happy Mums Foundation can help your team and your workplace

Interactive Q&A

This session is a taster and we want your input! Join the Q&A to help shape future workshops and resources.

Reserve Your Spot

First 5 tickets are free — book early to secure yours! After that, tickets are just £5 to support our work as a social enterprise.

Why Happy Mums Foundation?

We’re not just talking about parental mental health — we’ve lived it.

Happy Mums Foundation is a Cumbrian-based social enterprise with over 10 years of experience supporting mums, dads, and families through the perinatal period. Our team includes parents with first-hand experience of maternal mental health challenges, return-to-work struggles, and the power of peer support.

We’ve supported hundreds of families through:

• Weekly peer support groups
• Community outreach
• Advocacy and training for workplaces

Our approach is judgement-free, trauma-informed, and rooted in lived experience — making us uniquely placed to help organisations understand and respond to the realities of parental mental health.