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.
- 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
- 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
- Children's Centre workers
- Health Visitors
- Family Support Workers
- Perinatal support services
- Family Courts
- Community Police
- Firefighters
