Infant and family mental health: Integrating lived experience expertise into your practice

This webinar explores how lived experience workers are incorporated into infant mental health care, and how peer perspectives can be integrated into multidisciplinary practice when supporting infants, toddlers and their families.

The second in a two part series, this session provides insight into how lived experience approaches can strengthen engagement, build stronger relationships, and improve outcomes in infant and toddler mental health care.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe how peer workers support parental confidence, and promote caregiving that nurtures infants’ emerging autonomy, emotional security, and developmental wellbeing.
• Outline how lived experience peer roles support parents in early parenting and the developmental changes experienced in first three years.
• Identify organisational actions that support lived experience peer work roles, including role clarity, supervision structures, wellbeing supports, and co production practices.

Led by Vicki Mansfield (Practice Development Officer, Emerging Minds), the expert panel includes:

• Ash Allen (Perinatal Lived Experience Worker)
• Jess Jackson (Carer Peer Support Worker)
• Viv Kissane, OAM (CEO/Founder, Peach Tree)

For more on how lived experience expertise can support the transition to parenting, explore the first webinar in the series: