{"id":265,"date":"2019-12-11T09:08:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T09:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.gmintegratedcare.org.uk\/mental-health\/?page_id=265"},"modified":"2020-02-18T13:33:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:33:04","slug":"home-start-parent-infant-mental-health-partnership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hub.gmintegratedcare.org.uk\/mental-health\/home-start-parent-infant-mental-health-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Home-Start parent-infant mental health partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-221\" src=\"https:\/\/hub.gmintegratedcare.org.uk\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/IMG_2774-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hub.gmintegratedcare.org.uk\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/IMG_2774-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hub.gmintegratedcare.org.uk\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/IMG_2774-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hub.gmintegratedcare.org.uk\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/IMG_2774-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0Home-Start family<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why this matters <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many factors can affect how parents feel about their baby and themselves.\u00a0 Having a baby or young child can be difficult at the best of times. Sometimes it can feel hard to cope with a baby\u2019s feeding or sleeping patterns, or a baby who cries a lot.\u00a0 Depression and anxiety in pregnancy or after the baby\u2019s birth, a traumatic birth, mental health problems, events from the past or happening now, can affect how parents feel about their baby.\u00a0 Parents may feel worried about some of the thoughts and feelings they are having.<\/p>\n<p>These problems can affect anyone. We know the largest proportion of parents who struggle will fall into the group with mild to moderate mental health needs, and existing professional support for these parents is limited.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What we did <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We developed this partnership in Tameside with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.home-start.org.uk\/home-start-oldham-stockport-tameside\">Home-Start<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk\/our-services\/community-services\/early-attachment-service.htm\">Early Attachment Service<\/a> and health visiting<\/li>\n<li>Support is provided within the home and community to promote parental engagement, positive parent and infant relationships and positive wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>Developed a model of proactive parental engagement via weekly home visits from a volunteer so specialist resources are used more appropriately<\/li>\n<li>Set up a training programme to help volunteers support parents with their emotional well-being and mental health and enhance parental sensitivity<\/li>\n<li>Created a supportive ethos that has been integral to the success of this initiative meaning families have fully engaged with the support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis partnership has allowed us to see more closely the struggles and needs of families from many perspectives\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What the service provides <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The three different services that have come together draw on each other\u2019s expertise and experience and are able to work together to offer unique experiential training for home visiting support volunteers. The training draws on both psychoanalytic and attachment theory and the growing body of parent-infant mental health knowledge that has emerged over the past decade. The integration of the three services has ensured a \u2018shared language\u2019 and has kept this work \u201csafe\u201d through regular supervision and a joint passion for understanding early relationships across organisations. Volunteers can engage with the training at different stages and many have lived experience of a therapeutic journey. The training also supports them to think about their relationships with their own children and how they were parented.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What we\u2019ve seen so far<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The parent-infant mental health training is now in a manual and Home-Start have launched their Greater Manchester \u201cTrain the Trainer\u201d package. This has now been rolled this out to partners in Stockport, Rochdale, Trafford, Salford and Manchester with each area recruiting key staff from health visiting, Home-Start and psychological services. Feedback has been very positive and with national interest there&#8217;s potential to roll this out further afield. This work has been evaluated in many ways. A survey to all Home-Start families showed that the group receiving parent-infant mental health support had enhanced levels of confidence around a number of aspects related to parent infant mental help, with significant improvements across a range of areas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI am now much more relaxed and don\u2019t stress about all the little things I used too!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe volunteer helped me feel much better about myself and more able to care for my baby\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our resources page has<a href=\"https:\/\/hub.gmintegratedcare.org.uk\/mental-health\/resources\/\"> a range of resources for parent-infant mental health<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re working to improve parent and infant mental health and wellbeing as this is key to the overall future health and wellbeing of our communities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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