I was delighted to be contacted by a journalist from BBC Radio 1Xtra who was putting together a documentary on postnatal depression.
The documentary entitled Why's Mummy Sad will be played out live in two parts. The first part will go out at 1:45pm and the second part around 2:10-2:15pm on Wednesday March 31st.
Here is the link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/tx/documentaries/MummySad.shtml
Have a listen!
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Making a good start to family life
Publication of Maternity and Early Years - Making a good start to family life
The Government has published Maternity and Early Years - Making a good start to family life which aims to strengthen the 0-5 offer set out in Support for All: the Families and Relationships Green Paper to help families get off to the best start, even before the birth of their baby. It is available to download at
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_114023
The document has been developed jointly by the Department of Health, The Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, drawing on the views of parents, children's centre staff and local health practitioners.
"Maternity and Early Years - Making a Good Start to Family Life" makes clear the case for helping families to give their baby the best possible start in life and sets out a vision of renewed and more integrated maternity and early years services that put the excellent clinical care already available at the centre of a wider network of family support:
- with commitments to consult on new entitlements for women to access maternity services early in pregnancy and make important choices around where to have their baby;
- where local services will join up so that families have continuous care and support from early pregnancy to at least the child's sixth month
- with a named children's centre contact offered to parents early in pregnancy, who will invite them into the children's centre, and access to a health visitor for every children's centre;
- where families will also be offered more help to prepare for parenthood so they can give their baby the best possible start in life
- with new antenatal education opportunities rolled out in settings that suit parents and with a further focus on the opportunities for fathers to get more involved
- including an invitation for both parents to attend a Family Start meeting at their children's centre and an opportunity to agree a Parents' Plan together; and
- understanding that families will have very different needs, and that some may want more support in preparing for parenthood, with extra support for those families that need it
- for instance by expanding the Family Nurse Partnership to help young, vulnerable first time families.
Today Ann Girling and I are presenting our programme around maternal mental health to staff from Children's centres in Chester. Looks like we are doing our bit!
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
The Government has published Maternity and Early Years - Making a good start to family life which aims to strengthen the 0-5 offer set out in Support for All: the Families and Relationships Green Paper to help families get off to the best start, even before the birth of their baby. It is available to download at
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_114023
The document has been developed jointly by the Department of Health, The Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, drawing on the views of parents, children's centre staff and local health practitioners.
"Maternity and Early Years - Making a Good Start to Family Life" makes clear the case for helping families to give their baby the best possible start in life and sets out a vision of renewed and more integrated maternity and early years services that put the excellent clinical care already available at the centre of a wider network of family support:
- with commitments to consult on new entitlements for women to access maternity services early in pregnancy and make important choices around where to have their baby;
- where local services will join up so that families have continuous care and support from early pregnancy to at least the child's sixth month
- with a named children's centre contact offered to parents early in pregnancy, who will invite them into the children's centre, and access to a health visitor for every children's centre;
- where families will also be offered more help to prepare for parenthood so they can give their baby the best possible start in life
- with new antenatal education opportunities rolled out in settings that suit parents and with a further focus on the opportunities for fathers to get more involved
- including an invitation for both parents to attend a Family Start meeting at their children's centre and an opportunity to agree a Parents' Plan together; and
- understanding that families will have very different needs, and that some may want more support in preparing for parenthood, with extra support for those families that need it
- for instance by expanding the Family Nurse Partnership to help young, vulnerable first time families.
Today Ann Girling and I are presenting our programme around maternal mental health to staff from Children's centres in Chester. Looks like we are doing our bit!
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
Monday, 29 March 2010
Are you interested in improving performance through wellbeing & engagement?
Are you interested in improving performance through wellbeing & engagement?
Well the new www.wellbeing.ac.uk has arrived!
It is aimed at Higher Education institutions but has far wider implications.
The new website is the home of the two-year HEFCE and SFC funded Improving performance through wellbeing and engagement project which follows on from the successful 2009 pilot project, Creating success through wellbeing in higher education.
They aim to make www.wellbeing.ac.uk the go-to place for information, resources and advice on establishing, developing and improving your institution's wellbeing and engagement initiatives.
To celebrate the launch of the new website, there is a first issue of the new e-newsletter which includes news, views and updates on wellbeing and engagement topics as well as upcoming events, resources and more.
The e-newsletter is part of the benefits enjoyed by subscribers to the website which also include full access to all their case studies, toolkits and resources as well as mentoring through their expert panel.
Thanks to funding from HEFCE and the Scottish Funding Council, they are able to offer a free trial subscription to HEIs in England and Scotland which will give full access to the site until 31st August 2010. Sign up now at www.wellbeing.ac.uk
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
Well the new www.wellbeing.ac.uk has arrived!
It is aimed at Higher Education institutions but has far wider implications.
The new website is the home of the two-year HEFCE and SFC funded Improving performance through wellbeing and engagement project which follows on from the successful 2009 pilot project, Creating success through wellbeing in higher education.
They aim to make www.wellbeing.ac.uk the go-to place for information, resources and advice on establishing, developing and improving your institution's wellbeing and engagement initiatives.
To celebrate the launch of the new website, there is a first issue of the new e-newsletter which includes news, views and updates on wellbeing and engagement topics as well as upcoming events, resources and more.
The e-newsletter is part of the benefits enjoyed by subscribers to the website which also include full access to all their case studies, toolkits and resources as well as mentoring through their expert panel.
Thanks to funding from HEFCE and the Scottish Funding Council, they are able to offer a free trial subscription to HEIs in England and Scotland which will give full access to the site until 31st August 2010. Sign up now at www.wellbeing.ac.uk
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
Friday, 26 March 2010
Health Visitor Direct
As a new parent you are often faced with daily dilemmas about what to do with your new baby. In days gone by we could rely on a regular health visitor - sadly those days are going, much to my disappointment and disgust. So who can help?
Health Visitor Direct is the leading Online Health Visitor Free service dedicated to advising parents regarding any parenting matter. We are aware that your named Health Visitor offers an invaluable service. However her role does not continue into the evenings and weekends, therefore we are here to bridge that gap.
Our team of qualified Health Visitors will aim to answer your question within 24 hours. At Health Visitor Direct we are a dynamic team of Health professionals each with our own young families. Our advice is up to date, research and evidenced based. http://www.healthvisitordirect.com
Here is a link to their article in Every Child Journal
http://www.scribd.com/doc/28901635/Ecj-Health-Health-Visitor-Direct
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Want to know about CHaMP?
At the ChiMat event last week http://www.chimat.org.uk/ I also learnt about CHaMP.
It acts as a vehicle for consultancy and capacity building for service improvement with particular expertise in integrated working across health and social care. This offers it a unique position in the innovation and improvement field as it is able to provide support for service delivery, joint commissioning ,and knowledge sharing across multiple stakeholders and strengthening partnership arrangements. It should be acknowledged that CHaMP is at present a small resource with finite capacity but is one of the few resources available that exclusively focuses on child health and maternity services.
Visit their website here http://www.camhs.org.uk/
Any service and resource that brings child and maternal mental health together has to be a good idea! I look forward to this one growing.
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
What is CHaMP? (Child and Maternity Partnership)
A national service improvement resource for Child Health and Maternity Services funded and supported by the Office of the Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) Chief Executives and the Department of Health (DH).It acts as a vehicle for consultancy and capacity building for service improvement with particular expertise in integrated working across health and social care. This offers it a unique position in the innovation and improvement field as it is able to provide support for service delivery, joint commissioning ,and knowledge sharing across multiple stakeholders and strengthening partnership arrangements. It should be acknowledged that CHaMP is at present a small resource with finite capacity but is one of the few resources available that exclusively focuses on child health and maternity services.
Visit their website here http://www.camhs.org.uk/
Any service and resource that brings child and maternal mental health together has to be a good idea! I look forward to this one growing.
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
Postnatal depression - a useful blog for Mums and Dads
Mental health difficulties after birth are a global problem and maternal mental health is one of the Millennium goals set by the United Nations. /http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
As such I try to keep a eye out for useful resources across the globe. In the light of recent progress in the US for maternal mental health I came across a blog by Lauren Hale, who is based in Georgia.
She links to some useful resources especially for Dads.
Have a look at http://unexpectedblessing.wordpress.com/
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
As such I try to keep a eye out for useful resources across the globe. In the light of recent progress in the US for maternal mental health I came across a blog by Lauren Hale, who is based in Georgia.
She links to some useful resources especially for Dads.
Have a look at http://unexpectedblessing.wordpress.com/
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network Study Day
You may be interested in a study day run by Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network to be held on April 30th in Birmingham.
The Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network /http://www.pmhcwn.org.uk/ is a development Network set up to promote joint working between social care and health staff working with parents with mental health problems and their children. This includes encouraging joint understanding across adult mental health and children’s services and raising awareness of good practice in whole family thinking and working.
The Network is led by a steering group of representatives from leading mental health, family, children's and carers’ organisations and networks as well as service users who are parents. It is coordinated by the Social Perspectives Network and supported by the Department for Children Schools and Families. We aim to involve service users and carers in every aspect of the Network development and evaluation to make sure that the Network's activities are user-focused.
Have a look at the draft programme of the day here http://www.scribd.com/doc/28792347/Think-Family-April-2010-Flyer-and-Draft-Programme
I have been to events by this group before and would recommend it.
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
The Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network /http://www.pmhcwn.org.uk/ is a development Network set up to promote joint working between social care and health staff working with parents with mental health problems and their children. This includes encouraging joint understanding across adult mental health and children’s services and raising awareness of good practice in whole family thinking and working.
The Network is led by a steering group of representatives from leading mental health, family, children's and carers’ organisations and networks as well as service users who are parents. It is coordinated by the Social Perspectives Network and supported by the Department for Children Schools and Families. We aim to involve service users and carers in every aspect of the Network development and evaluation to make sure that the Network's activities are user-focused.
Have a look at the draft programme of the day here http://www.scribd.com/doc/28792347/Think-Family-April-2010-Flyer-and-Draft-Programme
I have been to events by this group before and would recommend it.
Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com
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