Inspiring day at PIMH Relationships Matters! Conference #iHVPIMH19

What an amazing day we had at iHV’s annual PIMH conference – Perinatal and Infant Mental Health: Relationships Matters! – #iHVPIMH19

Held on 10 September in London, the second annual iHV PIMH conference was in collaboration with the Maternal Mental Health Alliance. The conference created time to prioritise and place relationships at the heart of perinatal and infant mental health care. We shared, discussed and reflected together on the latest evidence, research and experiences of PIMH care in the context of relationships being fundamental to good parental and infant mental health.

Sold out several weeks ago, we had a full house of 200. “Inspiring, very interesting, thought provoking, insightful, really enjoyable, fantastic, hopeful, excellent” – just some of the feedback that we’ve received.

A big thank you to all our speakers, presenters and exhibitors for helping to make the day.

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Photos of the conference

We have made a short video of some of the photos taken during the conference:

Tweets from #iHVPIMH19

For those of you who could not either join us yesterday or could not follow the #iHVPIMH19 hashtag on Twitter, we’ve collected and made a little “Wakelet” collection of the day’s tweets so you can follow some of what was shared. Please see below.

MMHA collaborates with iHV on PIMH conference #iHVPIMH19

We are delighted to announce that this year’s iHV Perinatal & Infant Mental Health (PIMH) Conference will be held in collaboration with the Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA). Taking place on Tuesday 10 September in London, it will focus on the importance of good relationships in perinatal and infant mental health (PIMH) care.

Melita Walker, Mental Health Lead, iHV said:

“In the spirit of relationships, we are delighted to be collaborating with the MMHA to deliver the annual iHV PIMH Conference; Relationships Matter! We have a fantastic programme and we look forward to welcoming delegates to think together about the importance of relationships at every level of PIMH care.”

Together, we will share, discuss and reflect on the latest evidence, research and lived experiences in the context of relationships being fundamental to good parental and infant mental health.

The conference programme is designed to be of value to practitioners working alongside families across the care pathway, those working specifically in mental health, commissioners, local authorities and parents.

Clare Dolman, Vice Chair of the MMHA commented:

“We are delighted to collaborate with iHV on their second annual PIMH conference and look forward to welcoming delegates, hearing from those with experience of PIMH care and discussing opportunities to improve relationships and access to specialist services.”

Dr Alain Gregoire, Chair of the MMHA, will be discussing the importance of relationships in relation to policy, campaigning, practice and experience of PIMH care. There will also be a panel discussion with experts by experience hosted by MMHA’s Champion Network Manager, Maria Bavetta, about how good relationships with care providers can make a real difference to the lives of women and families.

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*Early bird rates are available until 7th July 2019, after which standard rates will apply.*

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PIMH Conference 2019 – bookings now open

During Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2019, we are delighted to open bookings for our annual PIMH conference “Perinatal and Infant Mental Health: Relationships Matter” being held in London on Tuesday 10 September 2019.

Achieving and enjoying good mental health for individuals, families, communities and societies relies on good relationships at every level. In the current context of perinatal and infant mental health (PIMH) care, there are many barriers and opportunities for this.

This is the must-attend event in 2019 for all organisations working alongside professionals to enable good family mental health and wellbeing.

The programme will feature high-profile leading speakers and experts in the fields of perinatal and infant mental health and offer peer-to-peer networking opportunities. The conference is designed to be of value to iHV PIMH Champions, parents, policy makers, health visitors, GPs, midwives, commissioners, local authority children’s service staff, specialist perinatal mental health practitioners and other practitioners working in mental health.

Find out what happened at last year's PIMH conference

Our last 2 iHV conferences were sold out, so we do anticipate that these places will sell very quickly as we’ve already had a huge amount of interest in joining us at this event.

Earlybird tickets (for iHV Champion Members, iHV members and non-members) are available until 7 July 2019, so don’t miss them! Limited student places also available.

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Go to our online booking system to book your place today

We always seek to ensure our activities comply with the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative – our events are not and never will be sponsored by the formula milk industry.

iHV Executive Director meets First Lady of Kenya at launch of GNPHN conference

iHV Executive Director, Dr Cheryll Adams CBE, met Margaret Kenyatta, First Lady of Kenya, at the launch of the 5th International Global Network of Public Health Nursing (GNPHN) conference in Nairobi, taking place 14-16 May 2019.

Lady Kenyatta is a GNPHN council member.

Margaret Kenyatta, First Lady of Kenya, with the GNPHN Council at GNPHN conference 2019

Margaret Kenyatta, First Lady of Kenya, at GNPHN conference 2019

Proceedings are well under way at the GNPHN conference in Nairobi! Please see below just a few videos from the first day!

The arrival of First Lady Margaret Kenyatta to the conference venue, the Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi.

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta launches the conference by unveiling the quilt…

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta addresses the conference…

Fabulous day at Health for All Children Now Conference #iHVConf19

Wow – what an amazing and packed day we had yesterday at the iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference 2019: Health for All Children Now. Sold out a few weeks ago, we had a full house – 300 people including delegates, exhibitors and speakers!

Held on Thursday 9 May 2019 at King’s House Conference Centre, Manchester, it was the must-attend event in 2019 for those interested in evidence-based infant and family public health and health visiting to come together to hear the latest guidance and recommendations included in the newly-published fifth edition of Health for All Children.

With 4 concurrent sessions running during the morning and another 4 concurrent sessions in the afternoon, in addition to the morning and afternoon plenary sessions, there was plenty for the delegates to listen to and learn about.

See the conference programme

Photos of the conference

We have made a short video of some of the photos taken during the conference:

Tweets from #iHVConf19

For those of you who could not either join us yesterday or could not follow the #iHVConf19 hashtag on Twitter, we’ve collected and made a little “Wakelet” collection of the day’s tweets so you can follow some of what was shared. Please see below.

Health for All Children Now – Only 3 weeks to go!

Yes! How exciting! It’s only 3 weeks until the annual iHV evidence-based practice conference 2019 – Health for All Children Now. It’s very busy in the office finalising all the arrangements for the day – but we are really looking forwards to welcoming all our delegates, poster presenters and speakers to the event.

If you’ve not booked your ticket yet, then please do hurry as there are not many left! Our last conference was sold out, and nearly all the tickets are already sold for Health for All Children Now! The last few are remaining – so please do not miss out!

The conference programme is looking awesome, with inspiring and expert speakers giving updates. Our great line up of expert speakers includes:

Professor Alan Emond, Editor, Health for All Children 5th Edition and Professor of Child Health, Bristol University
Dr Paul Williams MP, Chair of the First 1000 Days of Life inquiry for the Health & Social Care Select Committee
Professor Helen Bedford, Professor of Child Public Health, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Professor Vivette Glover, Professor of Perinatal Psychobiology, Imperial College London
James McTaggart, Early Years Psychologist, Highland Council
Pauline Beirne, National Lead AHP CYP, Scottish Government
Dr Ollie Morris, General Practitioner
Joe McCulloch, Executive Producer – Language and Literacy, BBC Learning
Greg Fell, Director of Public Health, Sheffield
Siobhan Freegard, Channel Mums
Sophia Collins, Parenting Science Gang
Samantha Tucker, The Brain Tumour Charity

And we hope that Nadhim Zahawi MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families, will also join us.

Download the latest programme here

Join us on 9 May in Manchester for sessions on:

Nutrition
Supporting UPP families
Primary prevention
Secondary prevention and identification of impairments
Making services work for parents
Prevention of harm
Developing your research career
Children in special circumstances

With tickets almost all sold out, we would not want you to miss out on this super opportunity to come along and hear from some of the chapter authors, as well as the editor, of the newly published Hall for All Children 5th edition.

Go to our online booking to book your place today!

Stop Press – New Keynote speaker: Dr Paul Williams MP

Stop Press

Dr Paul Williams MP

The Institute is delighted to announce that Dr Paul Williams MP, Chair of the First 1000 Days of Life inquiry for the Health and Social Care Select Committee, is to address the Institute of Health Visiting conference – Health for All Children Now – on 9 May in Manchester.

Book early to avoid disappointment – and to get your earlybird ticket!

Earlybird ends 29 March 2019.

For more conference details and to book your place

iHV provides keynote addresses to National Home Visiting conference in Washington DC

Dr Cheryll Adams CBE, Executive Director, and Dr Karen Whittaker, Institute trustee, are invited keynote plenary speakers at this year’s National Home Visiting Conference in Washington DC this week. Their session takes place this afternoon (Fri 1 February) at 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. EST – Health Visiting in the United Kingdom: What Can We Learn? – note that Washington DC is on EST (Eastern Standard Time) which is 5 hours behind the UK time.

Dr Adams said:

“With 700 delegates, this is a unique opportunity for us to not only share the best of UK health visiting, but also to learn from the many different home visiting programmes established to support vulnerable babies across the States. We so often utilise the often better funded research programmes from the USA to inform our own developments.

“This week provides an opportunity to discuss and debate critical factors leading to delivering effective outcomes for families especially those with the greatest need where the research is particularly well developed.”

More about the plenary session:

Health Visiting in the United Kingdom: What Can We Learn?
12:00pm – 1:15pm Eastern

One of the challenges facing home visiting in the United States today is how to best create a service system that reaches the most people while still being able to effectively address the needs of those most at-risk. This plenary will present an overview of the health visiting system in the United Kingdom, a universal model of home visiting for all families with young children. The presenters will examine what universalism looks like as a system, including the challenges of offering these services.

Featured Speakers

Dr. Cheryll Adams CBE, Founder & Executive Director, Institute of Health Visiting
Jon Korfmacher, Associate Professor, Erikson Institute
Dr. Karen Whittaker, Reader/Associate Professor Child & Family Health, University of Central Lancashire, England

Livestreaming of the plenary sessions

You can watch live streaming of the plenary sessions free of charge.

Those who are not able to view the sessions live but are interested in receiving the recordings after the conference are also encouraged to register.

To register and access the live stream, please go to the Home Visiting Summit website (link below) and select “Livestream Information” from the menu on the right-hand side.

Go to Home Visiting Summit website

Bookings now open for iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference 2019

Bookings are now open, with member discounts and earlybird rates, for the iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference – Health for All Children Now – taking place in Manchester on 9 May 2019.

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We always seek to ensure our activities comply with the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative – our events are not, and never will be, sponsored by the formula milk industry.

This is a fantastic opportunity to attend the iHV’s evidence-based practice conference – Health for All Children Now.

This inspiring conference will include leading professionals and experts speaking on a number of different topics, including Professor Alan Emond, the new editor of Health for All Children 5th Edition.

Full programme details will be announced shortly.

This conference is the MUST-ATTEND event in 2019 for those interested in evidence-based infant and family public health and health visiting to come together to hear the latest guidance and recommendations. This will include but not be limited to health visitors, NHS employers, local authority commissioners and employers, government officials, third sector organisations, GPs, midwives, obstetricians, paediatricians, researchers and parents with lived experience. A limited number of places will also be made available to SCPHN students.

Date: 09:30 – 16:45, Thursday 9 May 2019
Venue: King’s House Conference Centre, King’s Church, Sidney Street, Manchester M1 7HB

Delegate prices

With special member rates and early bird prices, please book your place today to avoid disappointment!

	Earlybird Rate (until 29 March 2019)	Standard Rate (from 30 March 2019)
iHV Member	£95.00	£125.00
Non Member	£125.00	£165.00
SCPHN Student	£75.00	£75.00

Conference rate includes full attendance at the conference and includes all refreshments, lunch and delegate materials.

DON’T MISS OUT!! Book today to take advantage of our early bird rates – available until 29 March 2019.

ORGANISATIONAL DISCOUNT: Buy four delegate places for your organisation and get a fifth free! See our conference page for further details

For payment details (including options to pay by debit/credit card or by cheque/invoice), how to book and our Terms & Conditions, please see all details on our online booking system.

Book your place online today

Call for Abstracts

We are delighted to offer the opportunity to present your practice development or research at our evidence-based conference – Health for All Children Now.

Abstract submission deadline is 28 February 2019.

See call for abstracts on the conference page for further details

Live Plenary Streaming at the 2019 US National Home Visiting Summit

Ounce Home Visiting Summit – USA

The Eighth National Home Visiting Summit on Quality in Home Visiting Programs takes place this week in Washington DC, USA (30 January – 1 February 2019) – and they are live streaming all four plenary sessions free of charge.

Dr Cheryll Adams and Dr Karen Whittaker (iHV Trustee) are delighted to be invited to give keynote presentations to this Home Visiting Conference – it’s very exciting that the Americans are keen to learn about our model!

The conference organisers hope that networks will take advantage of this exciting learning opportunity of the live streaming of the plenary sessions.

To watch the live streaming – please register today. Please note that Washington DC is on EST (Eastern Standard Time) which is 5 hours behind the UK time. The live streaming starts on Thursday, 31 January.

Take a moment to review the plenary sessions:

31 JANUARY 2019

8:30 – 9:45 a.m. EST – The New Network Leader: How You Can Grow Your Impact
12:15 – 1:30 p.m. EST – Innovation Toward Precision Home Visiting

1 FEBRUARY 2019

8:30 – 9:45 a.m. EST – Promoting Maternal Wellbeing and Resiliency in the Face of Trauma: The Science, Interventions, and Policy Implications for the Field of Home Visiting
12:00 – 1:15 p.m. EST – Health Visiting in the United Kingdom: What Can We Learn?

Those who are not able to view the sessions live but are interested in receiving the recordings after the conference are also encouraged to register.

To register and access the live stream, please go to the Home Visiting Summit website (link below) and select “Livestream Information” from the menu on the right-hand side.

Go to Home Visiting Summit website