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Lunch and Learn

A session around mental health for new parents

Thank you to everyone who attended our Lunch and Learn session yesterday. Our guest speaker, Mark Williams, fatherhood and mental health campaigner and author, shared his experiences of fatherhood and mental health and talked passionately about his work.

If you missed the session, you can watch the session recording here (please use your LSCFT email to access).

A copy of each of Mark’s books Daddy Blues and Fathers and Perinatal Mental Health will soon be added to library stock, please email us academic.library@nhs.uk if you would like to borrow these or any of our books on perinatal mental health.

A copy of Mark’s report, Fathers Reaching Out -Why Dads Matter: 10 years of findings on the importance of fathers’ mental health in the perinatal period, can be downloaded here.

In the meantime we would really appreciate any feedback on these sessions. If you have a few spare minutes we kindly ask you to complete our survey- which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete: https://www.surveymonkey.com

Covid 19

Current awareness updates

Impact of Covid-19 on new parents: one year on: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report.
Petitions Committee; 2022.
[The government’s response points to the £500 million investment announced in the 2021 Autumn Spending Review for family and early years services. This report concludes that this goes some way to addressing the ‘baby blind spot’ in Covid-19 recovery spending identified in the Committee’s report but the response contains no new commitments in response to the concerns raised and recommendations made in the report.]

Volunteering and helping out in the COVID-19 outbreak.
Centre for Ageing Better; 2022.
[This report, based on research conducted by NatCen Social Research, aims to understand the patterns of formal volunteering and informal support that emerged in, and between, July 2020 and November 2020.]

Community connectedness in the COVID-19 outbreak.
Centre for Ageing Better; 2022.
[This report investigates how people across England related to their neighbourhoods as the COVID-19 pandemic challenged individuals and communities while reducing their access to traditional mechanisms of support.]

Lunch and Learn – Reminder

A session around mental health for new parents

This is just a reminder that the next Lunch and Learn session will be held via Teams on Thursday 17th March between 12pm and 1pm.

This session will feature Mark Williams, fatherhood and mental health campaigner and author, talking about mental health for new parents, with a particular focus on men.

Teams invites have been sent to all our Library registered users. If you would like an invite to be extended to you or your team please email: carmel.finley@lscft.nhs.uk

Emotional Support

Online resources – Mental Health Family Hour

Today’s resource is the hugely popular Mental Health Family Hour with Sam Tyrer (Change Talks), and Dave Cottrell (Mindset by Dave) and this episode is about becoming a new parent.