This programme is designed for single or multi-agency audiences, across all UK nations, to build advocacy for paternal mental health. It equips all those working with families in the perinatal period to develop the knowledge and skills required to work effectively with fathers, promoting good family emotional health and wellbeing and offering appropriate support. Our events are co-delivered by facilitators who are experts by experience, and joined by additional speakers on the day.
Engaging in this programme equips participants to develop the mindset and skills required to work effectively with families in the perinatal period to promote good paternal emotional health, offer evidence-based assessment and support, and know when to refer on to other services.
Content of the programme includes:
- Setting the context: fathers and families
- Policy and research
- Transition to fatherhood
- Fathers’ perinatal and infant mental health: risk factors, and signs and symptoms of common conditions
- Voices of lived experience
- Assessment of paternal mental health
- Ensuring inclusivity: reaching all fathers
Multi-agency training
An integrated training approach through multi-agency training is central to the future of coordinated and integrated perinatal care for families. We offer our Perinatal Mental Health training programmes across the workforce, including health visiting, maternity and neonatal care, mental health professionals, social care, early years and voluntary organisations supporting parents and carers.
Types of training
Champions
The Champions model of training is excellent for sustainability and growing the capacity of a workforce to meet its own needs for future training. Following training the Champions can use resources provided to undertake a cascade of awareness training to colleagues (where agreed locally).
The Champions programme also aims to support informal leadership and advocacy for the subject. Champions are intended to be advocates for families impacted within their local area, be a resource for colleagues around the subject (in line with their scope of practice) and empower colleagues to promote parity of esteem for PIMH, become involved in supporting and progressing integrated care pathways/initiatives for fathers in their area, and promote evidence-based practice for the subject within their work.
Attributes of a Champion include: having an interest in the care of Fathers’ PIMH, being a good communicator and having the confidence to promote the subject with others (or train from a lesson plan and resources), and being organised and able to contribute to initiatives being developed in their workplace or deliver small groups of awareness training (where agreed locally).
The aim of this programme is to enable practitioners to become Fathers’ Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Champions
Who are iHV Fathers’ Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Champions?
iHV Fathers’ Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Champions are place-based leaders who seek opportunities to build advocacy for, and deepen understanding of, the experiences and perinatal mental health needs of fathers and their families. They have relevant clinical experience and a robust knowledge of the latest evidence base relating to fathers and PMH. They are equipped to deliver training, influence stakeholders and services around the needs of fathers, identify local gaps in services, and improve support available.
By the end of this training, practitioners will be able to:
- Increase awareness of the context of fatherhood in the UK
- Increase knowledge and understanding of the factors impacting on a man’s transition to fatherhood and the implications for his own, his baby’s and his family’s emotional wellbeing
- Explore strategies to identify, assess and support fathers’ perinatal mental health needs
- Identify steps towards more father-inclusive practice
- Support practitioners to become place-based leaders, with tools and learning resources to:
- cascade awareness level training to colleagues
- continue professional development to support them to deliver an awareness-level cascade
This training programme prepares participants to undertake a ‘Champions’ role, equipping them with materials to deliver a cascade of multi-agency 1-day awareness level training for colleagues using materials we provide.
In addition, all participants have access to iHV Champions’ quarterly virtual Forums and Bulletins to maintain their confidence and competence. Access is granted for 2 years following training and can be renewed for a small fee following this period.
The programme is delivered as:
- Private events
- iHV hosted events
🏷️ Cost: £275 (iHV Member) / £300 (Non-member)
🕒 Duration: 1 Day
👥 Suitable for anyone with:
- A passion for perinatal and infant mental health and opportunities to share this
- A desire to improve the experiences and mental health care that fathers receive in the perinatal period
- Existing knowledge of perinatal and infant mental health (through completion of iHV PIMH programme ideally)
- Skill in creating, facilitating and supporting a positive learning environment
- Ability to organise and deliver a cascade of the Fathers’ PIMH awareness training package (if agreed locally)
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Awareness
The Awareness format of training is excellent for growing knowledge and confidence across the workforce. The Awareness training aims to offer the same high quality learning experience as our Champions training, to support participants to develop the mindset and skills required to work effectively with families in the perinatal period, to promote good emotional health, offer evidence-based assessment and support, and know when to refer on to other services.
Following training the participants receive access to resources for consolidation of their own learning only, and there is no access to materials to support a cascade of Awareness training (see Champions for this format of training).
The Fathers’ PIMH Awareness programme is recognised as Level 1 learning for the Start for Life Family Hubs initiative and is suitable and currently used to support learning across a wide range of professional disciplines.
This training programme is designed for participants’ own Continuing Professional Development around fathers’ mental health care perinatally. It covers the content described in the main page with a pace of delivery, activities and depth of discussions that vary from our Champions format for this popular training.
The programme is delivered as:
- Private events - costs available on request
(note we are not currently offering iHV hosted events with individually bookable places for this training)
🕒 Duration: 1 Day
👥 Suitable for: Multi-Agency
For more information, contact us.
