This programme is designed for single or multi-agency audiences, across all UK nations, to improve the experience and mental health care that people who are LGBTQI+ and their families access and receive during the perinatal period. Our events are co-delivered by facilitators with lived experience, and joined by additional speakers who share their lived experience of perinatal mental health on the day.
The content of this programme will be delivered across the following modules:
- Ancient context, global perspectives and legislative milestones
- Routes to parenthood and infant feeding
- Vulnerability factors to perinatal mental health problems for LGBTQI+ people
- Voices of lived experience
- Making care safe, accessible and inclusive
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 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
Champion
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 LGBTQI+ People with PMH, become involved in supporting and progressing integrated care pathways/initiatives in their area, and promote evidence-based practice for the subject within their work.
Attributes of a Champion include: having an interest in LGBTQI+ mental health care perinatally, 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 the programme is to prepare participants to undertake a Champion role, to improve the experience and mental health care that LGBTQI+ people and their families access and receive during the perinatal period.
Who are iHV LGBTQI+ People and Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Champions?
iHV LGBTQI+ People and PMH Champions are place-based leaders who seek opportunities to build advocacy for and deepen understanding of the experiences and mental health needs of LGBTQI+ parents and families. They have relevant clinical experience and a robust knowledge of the latest evidence base relating to PIMH, sexual orientation and gender identity. They are equipped to deliver training, influence stakeholders and services around the needs of LGBTQI+ families, identify local gaps in services, and improve support available.
By the end of this training, practitioners will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding and confidence in using appropriate language in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity
- Identify contemporary policy and research related to PMH and LGBTQI+ people and their families, appreciating how it applies to practice at a local level
- Articulate the experiences of LGBTQI+ people from a historical and current global context and how this relates to modern UK legislation
- Describe risk factors specific to perinatal mental health for LGBTQI+ people and their families
- Demonstrate an understanding of the perinatal experiences of LGBTQI+ parents
- Identify some of the challenges/barriers for good perinatal mental health and wellbeing for LGBTQI+ people and their families
- Describe some of the routes to parenthood for LGBTQI+ people
- Articulate some of the challenges/barriers for practitioners and services in delivering high quality PMH care for LGBTQI+ people and their families
- Effectively engage and successfully work in partnership with LGBTQI+ people and their families
- Reflect on how inclusive their own practice/service is - and identify what they can do to improve it
- Articulate the role of the iHV Champion for LGBTQI+ people and PMH and identify local opportunities to build advocacy for the mental health and wellbeing of these families
- Access all LGBTQI+ People and PMH Champion resources (PowerPoint presentations, films, evaluations, certificates) to support them to deliver an awareness-level cascade
This training programme prepares participants to undertake a ‘Champion’ 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: £260 (iHV Member) / £290 (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 LGBTQI+ people and their families 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 LGBTQI+ People and PMH awareness training package (if agreed locally)
[Hyperlink to event]
No suitable scheduled dates?
Contact us to register your interest.
For more information, contact us.
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 LGBTQI+ People & PMH 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 LGBTQI+ people and PMH. 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. Note: there is no cascade of training associated with this format.
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.
