The early years of a child's social and emotional development has a huge impact on the rest of their lives - and parents play a vital role in supporting their baby's mental health during that time.
But we know it takes a village to raise a child, and health visitors, midwives, social workers and other health and social care workers are part of it, helping parents to keep their babies at the forefront of their minds. As professionals working around infant and parental mental health, we've got a challenging job to do: making sure we're giving the right support to parents, we're looking after families, making systems work for vulnerable families, keeping babies safe, making the right choices and, importantly, that we're looking after ourselves when things get tough (and it does).
Join PSS, Everton in the Community, Family Hubs, Lighthouse parenting group and our guest speakers (to be confirmed) for a free conference to explore the ways in which we can make sure parents get the help they need - and that we, as professionals, can get support, too.
Through workshops and lectures, our conference will cover:
- How it feels to use social care services, from the perspective of parents we support
- How health visitors can support infant mental health
- How we help families to support infant mental health
- The importance of joint working between perinatal mental health teams, children's centres and charities like ours
- How we support ourselves and our teams through difficult challenges - for example, when children have been removed from their families
- What we can do to work together as professionals when systems don't always align with what's needed to support vulnerable families
Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please make sure you let us know if you have dietary requirements when you sign up.
