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The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) comprises over 130 members who support and advocate for women and birthing people, babies, fathers, partners, and families, as well as professionals who work with them during the perinatal period. MMHA members are essential to who we are, our collective voice.

Find out how to become a member, or email membership@maternalmentalhealthalliance.org if you have any questions.

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Aberlour

Scotland

  • Financial assistance
  • Addiction

Based across the Forth Valley region, Aberlour help mums struggling with anxiety and depression in pregnancy, and after their baby is born. They match them up with highly-trained volunteer befrienders. They offer emotional support in order to help tackle poor mental health and wellbeing.

Aberlour befrienders are there for them while they are pregnant, and until baby is one. This friendship helps mum, her partner and immediate family as a result. Aberlour aims to improve parents’ mental health and promote healthy attachments between baby and parents.

How to get help from Aberlour

Acacia Family Support

Birmingham

  • Health visiting

Acacia provides, free of charge, a wide range of individual, group-based and peer support services to help women recover from the symptoms associated with pre and postnatal depression and anxiety. Their services are delivered across Birmingham by a team of 40 trained volunteers and a small staff team and they include telephone befriending, individual listening/befriending, CBT based group workshops, telephone support and practical in-home support. Acacia's staff and volunteers have themselves experienced maternal mental health or other mental health problems. This helps them to better understand how women are feeling and to show them that this is a temporary illness and that they can get through it.

How to get help from Acacia Family Support

Action Mental Health

Northern Ireland

  • Counselling

Action Mental Health changes the lives of those living with mental ill health and promotes resilience and well-being to future generations.

How to get help from Action Mental Health

Action on Postpartum Psychosis

UK-wide

  • Dads and partners
  • Grandparents

Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP) is the only UK charity dedicated to supporting women and families affected by postpartum psychosis (PP). PP is a severe form of postnatal illness that affects 1-2 in every 1,000 new mums. Symptoms begin in the days following childbirth and include hallucinations, delusions, elation or depression, and extreme confusion.

APP runs an award-winning peer support service, connecting women and families to recovered volunteers; develops patient information; raises awareness; dispels myths and stigmas; campaigns for improved perinatal mental health services; trains health professionals; and facilitates vital research into the condition.

APP is run by academics, health professionals and women and families who have been affected by PP.

How to get help from Action on Postpartum Psychosis

Action Trauma

UK-wide

  • Trauma

Action Trauma is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to changing lives for the better by promoting awareness of trauma and trauma recovery. Action Trauma create and deliver international and local conferences and events addressing all aspects of trauma, anxiety and stress, and recovery.

Action Trauma Network has now been launched. The network will provide a space to connect like-minded professionals, working with clients/patients affected by trauma, to bring hope, recovery, resilience and healing by having direct resources and contact information to reach out to each other and learn from each other’s expertise and knowledge.

Active Partnerships

UK-wide

  • Exercise

The network of 43 Active Partnerships cover the whole of England, bringing together people and organisations to increase physical activity levels.

With a particular focus on those who face the most difficulties in being active, we believe in the power of physical activity and sport to change lives, improve mental and physical wellbeing, bring communities together and tackle inequalities. The Active Partnerships connect and support a vast array of organisations, using their position to influence systems, policies and strategies that can make it easier and more attractive for people to be active in their day to day lives.

Active Pregnancy Foundation

UK-wide

  • Exercise

The Active Pregnancy Foundation (APF) is a registered Charity, set up in 2020, to break down barriers to engagement in physical activity during preconception, pregnancy and postnatal periods. The APF’s vision is to create a society where all women are empowered to be physically active during their childbearing years in a way that works for them.

The APF works with women, healthcare and fitness professionals, researchers and a wide range of key stakeholders to: change the narrative around being active during the childbearing years, through research, education, and advocacy; increase visibility and representation of active women, thereby increasing the number of role models who influence and motivate; create a support network for women and professionals, where experiences and learning can be shared; work collaboratively across physical activity and health systems to ensure high quality provision and access to knowledgeable qualified professionals; empower women to take ownership of their health, to make informed decisions and encourage meaningful conversations.

Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families

UK-wide

  • Charity

Our vision is a world where children and families are supported effectively to build on their strengths and to achieve their goals in life. We will continue to promote resilience and wellbeing in children, young people and families, as we have for over 60 years.

Antenatal Results & Choices

UK-wide

  • Helpline
  • Resources
  • Information

Charity providing information and support around testing and diagnosis in pregnancy.

How to get help from Antenatal Results & Choices

Approachable Parenting

UK-wide

  • Mentoring

Approachable Parenting CIC is a registered company which is also a non for profit organisation that provides parenting courses and coaching to BAME families especially Muslim families within the UK. The organisation was developed because Muslim parents wanted help with parenting issues form an organisation who understood their background, culture and faith.

The evidenced based '5 Pillars of Parenting' programmes are culturally sensitive tailored for the Muslim communities, which integrating psychological models within an Islamic framework consistent with parental attitudes, forming a basis for motivational change within parenting.

We work with parents, both mums and dads over 4 weeks ‘Pregnancy and Beyond’ or 8 weeks ‘Pregnancy to 3 years’ which are delivered by qualified trainers.

Approachable Parenting is based in Birmingham, however we also work in London, Manchester and Bradford.

How to get help from Approachable Parenting

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