Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network - Network events
Network study day: Beyond the Smile (18 March 2008)
Tuesday 18th March
2008
10.00am – 4.00pm
King's House, Sidney Street, Manchester
Tel: 0161 273 2168
The study day 'Beyond the Smile: Working Together for Positive maternal Mental Health' aims to explore how family approaches and cross sector working are being used to improve mental health and well-being for new mothers, fathers, babies and families where one or both parents have experienced mental health problems.
Keynote speakers
- Naomi Eisenstadt (Director, Social Exclusion Task Force)
- Elaine Hanzaak (Survivor of postnatal depression and professional speaker)
Workshops included
- Social aspects of wellbeing in mothers, fathers and babies; engaging fathers in protective role - Judy Foster and colleages from St Michael's Fellowship, London
- Flexible care pathways: mother and baby units and beyond - Caroline Carr, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Brockington Unit
- Models of Intervention from the Voluntary Sector - Home Start/Newpin
- Supporting women in practice - Jan Cubison, Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service
- Nurse/Family Partnerships - Learning from the Pilot Sites. Kate Bellingham, Director, Health led parenting and 1st years of life programme, Department of Health
