Family Hubs
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.
Solihull 2-Day Foundation training and Parenting Group Facilitator
2-Day Foundation training:
The aim of this training is to introduce practitioners to the Solihull Approach model with a focus on working with babies, young children, young people and their families. It includes:
- Baby brain development
- Sleeping
- Weaning
- Toileting
- Playing
- Emotional development
- Physical development
Parenting Group Facilitator training:
To be able to facilitate any of the Solihull Approach face to face groups for parents and foster carers.
Participants will:
- Have a better understanding of the nationally and internationally recognised Solihull Approach model
- Understand more about how children and young people's brains work
- Participate in 'Embedding the Solihull Approach' monthly support sessions
- Understanding trauma
- Understanding attachment
- Understanding brain development
- Train the Trainer (to deliver the 2-Day Foundation course)
This training is for anyone working with babies or young children, young people, parents or families; for example:
- Children's Centre workers
- 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
Date
17th January 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
31st January 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
21st February 2024 (10:00am - 4:45pm)
31st January 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
21st February 2024 (10:00am - 4:45pm)
This training is only available for practitioners who are connected to the Family Hubs programme. Please only apply to this course if your line manager has approved your attendance.
Venue
The Woolwich Centre
Tutors
Member of Solihull training team
Date
18th January 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
1st February 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
22nd February 2024 (10:00am - 4:45pm)
1st February 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
22nd February 2024 (10:00am - 4:45pm)
This training is only available for practitioners who are connected to the Family Hubs programme. Please only apply to this course if your line manager has approved your attendance.
Venue
The Woolwich Centre
Tutors
Member of Solihull training team
Date
20th February 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
5th March 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
20th March 2024 (10:00am - 4:45pm)
5th March 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
20th March 2024 (10:00am - 4:45pm)
This training is only available for practitioners who are connected to the Family Hubs programme. Please only apply to this course if your line manager has approved your attendance.
Venue
METRO GAVS
Tutors
Member of Solihull training team
Date
21st February 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
6th March 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
20th March 2024 (10:00am - 4:45pm)
6th March 2024 (10:00am - 4:30pm)
20th March 2024 (10:00am - 4:45pm)
This training is only available for practitioners who are connected to the Family Hubs programme. Please only apply to this course if your line manager has approved your attendance.
Venue
The Woolwich Centre
Tutors
Member of Solihull training team
iHV Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Awareness
Learn about:
- The concepts of perinatal and infant mental health
- The impact it can have for the developing baby, infant, parents, wider family and society
- What we can do to support good family mental health and wellbeing
Participants will:
- Be able to articulate the importance of good perinatal and infant mental health (PIMH)
- Have an increased awareness of available contemporary policy and research
- Understand and value the importance of adopting a relational and trauma-informed approach when working
- with families
- Appreciate the effects and impact of perinatal mental illness on parents and the developing baby/child across
- the life course
- Recognise how perinatal mental illness can affect the parent-infant and wider family relationships
- Know the range of perinatal mental health conditions and be able to recognise the clinical features of the most
- common perinatal mental health conditions
- Understand the impact of stigma in relation to perinatal and infant mental health
- Have an increased awareness of the risks associated with perinatal mental illness related to suicide and
- safeguarding
- Have an increased awareness of equity and inclusivity and the challenges in, and opportunities for, supporting all
- parents and their families experiencing, or at risk of, perinatal and infant mental health problems
- Have an appreciation of the range of interventions and help available (locally and nationally) along with knowing
- when and how to access these
- Understand the importance of wellbeing and resilience and feel confident to promote these concepts to
- colleagues
This training is for anyone working with babies or young children, young people, parents or families; for example:
- Children's Centre workers
- Health Visitors
- Family Support Workers
- Perinatal support services
- Family Courts
- Community Police
- Firefighters
Date
7th February 2024 (9:00am - 4:30pm)
This training is only available for practitioners who are connected to the Family Hubs programme. Please only apply to this course if your line manager has approved your attendance.
Venue
The Woolwich Centre
Tutors
Member of iHV training team
Date
29th February 2024 (9:00am - 4:30pm)
This training is only available for practitioners who are connected to the Family Hubs programme. Please only apply to this course if your line manager has approved your attendance.
Venue
The Woolwich Centre
Tutors
Member of iHV training team
iHV LQBTQI+ People and Perinatal Mental Health Awareness
Participants will:
- Learn how to improve the experience and mental health care that people who identify as LGBTQI+ and their families access and receive during the perinatal period.
Participants will:
- Develop an understanding and confidence in using appropriate language in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity
- Consider risk factors specific to perinatal mental health for people who identify as LGBTQI+ and their families
- Deepen understanding from the perspective of people who identify as LGBTQI+ and their experience of services in the perinatal period
- Increase awareness of some of the challenges/barriers for good MH and wellbeing for people who identify as LGBTQI+ and their families in the perinatal period (conception to 2 years)
- Gain knowledge and understanding of the routes to parenthood for people who identify as LGBTQI+
- Appreciate the experiences of people who identify as LGBTQI+ from a historical and current global context and how this relates to modern UK legislation
- Review contemporary policy and research related to perinatal mental health and people who identify as LGBTQI and their families, appreciating how it applies to practice at a local level
- Be aware of the challenges/barriers for practitioners and services in delivering high quality perinatal mental health care for people who identify as LGBTQI+ and their families
- Reflect on how inclusive their own practice/service is - and what they can do to improve it
- Practise skills required to effectively engage and successfully work in partnership with all people who identify as LGBTQI+ and their families
This training is for anyone working with babies or young children, young people, parents or families; for example:
- Children's Centre workers
- Health Visitors
- Family Support Workers
- Perinatal support services
- Family Courts
- Community Police
- Firefighters
Date
18th March 2024 (9:00am - 4:30pm)
This training is only available for practitioners who are connected to the Family Hubs programme. Please only apply to this course if your line manager has approved your attendance.
Venue
Online
Tutors
Member of iHV training team