Presenters: Lyndsay Healy, Viv Kissane, Amy Parker and Vicki Mansfield
Partner: Emerging Minds
Date & time: Wednesday 3 April 2024, 1:00 – 2:00PM (AEDT). Find your time zone
Supporting infant and child mental health can be both extremely rewarding and challenging for practitioners working with families.
Many different factors influence infant and toddler mental health, including their relationships, their community and the broader social context in which they live. While having limited social supports can contribute to poor mental health in children and their parents or carers, having a rich social support system, or a ‘village’, can promote mental health and wellbeing. This ‘village’ can include family members, friends and other trusted community members such as educators, community leaders and healthcare providers. Practitioners can offer families more effective support by understanding their ‘village’ and what might be stopping families from reaching out for emotional or practical support. This webinar will discuss how to work collaboratively with families to engage with their ‘village’ and how this approach can influence infant and toddler mental health. Panellists will explore practice strategies that promote infant and toddler mental health and explore how asking questions about the family’s ‘village’ can help you better understand a family’s needs and strengths. This webinar will help you:
This webinar will interest practitioners who work with infants, toddlers and their families, such as allied health workers, child and family health nurses, perinatal and infant mental health providers, mental health services, child and family services and parenting support, lived experience workforce, GP’s, and paediatricians. While you will begiven a chance to ask questions during the webinar, we encourage you to send through questions in advance in the registration form. This webinar is co-produced by CFCA and Emerging Minds in a series focusing on children’s mental health. They are working together as part of the Emerging Minds: National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, which is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care under the National Support for Child and Youth Mental Health Program. |