Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network - Share your practice examples
As part of its work on the Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network, SCIE will be developing practice guidance with the National Institute for Clinical Excellence for social care and health staff.
We need to know more about the things people are doing in their work that are making a positive difference for parents with mental health problems and their children, as well as the things that are not working so well or that hinder joint working. Examples of the materials we want to hear about include:
- locally-developed practice guidance or interagency protocols
- statutory or voluntary sector projects catering specifically for families where the parent has a mental health problem
- special interest groups or forums
- family group conferences
- parenting skills programmes
- psycho-social education programmes for parents and their children
- children visiting their parents in hospital
- training materials or evaluations
- specialist worker posts including job descriptions and job evaluations
- young carers' projects
- local research or research that has made a major difference to an individual, team or organisation's practice and
- barriers to delivering services or that hinder practice e.g local thresholds/criteria, particular national or local policy decisions, access to information, accessibility and take up of core services to support families with a parent with a mental health problem e.g. family therapy, family group conferences, family support workers, Sure Start, home care, etc.
Hard copies of resources will also be very welcome if they are not available in electronic format. SCIE will select a number of the submitted examples for further exploration via either the telephone or in a face-to-face meeting.
Please note that the people submitting examples do not have to be the ones who developed the work: our primary aim is to learn about the range of things happening at a local level.
If you have any questions please contact the Network administrator.
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