Family Hubs are a ‘one-stop-shop’ for children and young people aged 0-19 (0-25 with additional needs) and their families and are a new way of bringing together all the support you may need as a family from pregnancy through to young people turning 19 (or 25 if they have a disability).
Whether you are a mother or father, parent-to-be, a grandparent or a carer – whoever you are, you will be welcomed.
Royal Greenwich have a network of Children’s Centres, youth centres, libraries and other community buildings in the borough, all offering access to information, help and support delivered by staff working across a range of different services, including the council, health services and voluntary and community organisations. Our aim is to better coordinate these services, to make sure that all families know how to access the information and help they need, when they need it.
If you work for these organisations with Family Hubs, you are invited to attend training focused on parenting support and perinatal mental health. Please find further details about the courses available here.
- Supporting the PMH of parents whose babies were born preterm, sick or with a disability
- This new bite-sized learning event provide a very feasible and accessible mode of learning for busy practitioners. These are based on some current and interesting topics with fabulous national speakers sharing their experience and tools and tips to support practice with parents.

Health Visitors
Family Support Workers
Perinatal support services
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Family Courts
Community Police
Firefighters
Education Practitioners
Pastoral staff in schools

- Articulate the importance of good perinatal and infant mental health
- Articulate the effects and impact of perinatal mental illness on parents and the developing baby/child across the life course
- Describe the importance of a trauma-informed approach when working with families in the perinatal period
- Identify ways to promote reflective functioning and support parents to negotiate the emotional transition to parenthood
- Articulate the importance of trusting therapeutic relationships
- Identify a range of evidence-based approaches and tools that support effective identification, assessment and interventions of/for perinatal mental illness, infant mental health problems and parent-infant relationship problems
- Identify and manage risks of suicide, self-harm, extended suicide, and child safeguarding in the perinatal periodRecognise and advocate for those who may face barriers in accessing high-quality PIMH services
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Describe the impact of practitioner wellbeing on outcomes for families and identify a range of strategies to ensure personal wellbeing
- Articulate the role of the iHV PIMH Champion and identify local opportunities to build advocacy for perinatal and infant mental health
- Place-based leaders who seek opportunities to build advocacy for, and deepen understanding of, perinatal and infant
mental health.
- A passion for perinatal and infant mental health and opportunities to share this
- Skill in creating, facilitating and supporting a positive learning environment

11th June 2025 (12:00pm - 12:00pm)
