AIMH UK Infant Mental Health Awareness Week Conference: Who is Holding the Baby?
We are delighted to welcome you to this year’s online Infant Mental Health Awareness Week Conference, where we will reflect on a critical question: Who is holding the baby?
This theme encourages us to think deeply about the relationships, systems and networks surrounding infants and their families – and most importantly, what we can do as professionals to keep babies at the centre of safe practice and at the heart of thinking for parents, within teams and across communities.
This year’s programme brings together leading voices in infant mental health, social work, and perinatal care. Our speakers will explore the emotional and developmental needs of babies, the crucial role of co-regulation, and the importance of safeguarding and collaboration across services. From understanding the real-world challenges faced by families and professionals, to examining how we can better hold babies in mind in both policy and practice, this conference invites us to connect, learn, and advocate for approaches that truly hold babies in mind.
We hope you leave this conference with your mind opened wide as to how you can further meet the emotional needs of babies in your practice and better advocate for babies within multi-disciplinary teams and across the professional network.
Conference Programme:
9 am to 10 am Keynote Speaker Claire Le Quesne, Parent Infant Psychotherapist, Jersey CAMHS:
Who is Holding the Baby: Co-Regulation: seeing and meeting the needs of parents, their babies and young children.
10:00 to 10:45 Jane Wiffin, Social Worker & Serious Case Review Autho, CSA Centre:
The Vulnerability of Babies. What do Local Child Safeguarding Reviews tell us?
Break
11:00 to 11:45 Joanna Chapman, Head of Training, OXPIP:
Baby in Practice: Clinical Paper Jo will be exploring why babies so often fall out of the minds of professionals.
11:45 to 12:30 Viv Allen & Members of the DorPIP Team – (current holders of the AiMH UK-Together Team Award)
Holding Baby Together: A Baby-Focused Approach Connecting Teams, Families & Communities
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NON-MEMBERS TICKET: £40
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