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The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) has 130 members that support and advocate for mums, babies, and families, or represent the professionals who work with them in 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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The Birth Trauma Association

UK-wide

  • Helpline
  • Online support
  • Peer support
  • Birth trauma

The Birth Trauma Association (BTA) was established in 2004 to support women suffering from Post Natal Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or birth trauma. We are not trained counsellors or therapists or medical professionals. We are mothers who wish to support other women who have suffered difficult births and we aim to offer advice and support to all women who are finding it hard to cope with their childbirth experience.

The BTA is the only organisation in the UK which deals solely and specifically with this issue. We aim to tackle the problem with work which is focused on three main areas:

(1) Raising awareness of birth trauma

(2) Working to prevent it

(3) Supporting families in need

How to get help from The Birth Trauma Association

The Centre for Emotional Health

UK-wide

  • Training
  • Resources

Our mission is to promote an approach to life and relationships that equips and supports families and communities to be emotionally healthy.

Programme Summary

The Welcome to the World programme is an 8-week group for parents expecting a baby. Parents attend the group from approximately 24 weeks of pregnancy. Topics include empathy and loving attentiveness, infant brain development, healthy eating choices, breast-feeding, infant care, managing stress and difficult feelings, promoting self-esteem and confidence, and the couple relationship.
The programme focuses on the following areas:

  • Giving an opportunity to expectant parents to explore their roots, traditions, hopes and fears for the future
  • Developing strong communication between parents by sharing experiences and ideas
  • Increasing parent's reflective functioning and understanding of their baby: how he/she develops before and after birth, their physical and emotional needs, the importance of attunement, attachment and empathy
  • Increasing parents' understanding of their own emotional health and the need to nurture themselves to provide the best opportunities for the baby to grow and flourish
  • Enabling parents to think about their future as parents, a couple, a family
  • Increasing parents' understanding of the benefits of breastfeeding and the practical tasks of caring for a new baby

The Hearts and Minds Partnership

UK-wide

  • Local support
  • VCS

The Hearts and Minds Partnership is a collaboration of two England-based perinatal mental health charities and MMHA members: Acacia Family Support in the Midlands and Smile Group in the North West.

The Hearts and Minds Partnership focus on:

  • The creation of an England-wide interactive map of quality VCSE perinatal mental health services, to enable signposting to parents and healthcare professionals
  • The development of trusted spaces to share learning, make new connections and talk about the challenges we collectively face
  • The creation and delivery of dedicated training to support the practical realities of growing, developing and sustaining a VCSE perinatal service.

    How to get help from The Hearts and Minds Partnership

    The Human Milk Foundation

    UK-wide

    • Infant feeding
    • Research

    The Human Milk Foundation (HMF) is a charity that aims to ensure equitable access to milk bank services exist across the UK for families facing feeding challenges. The Hearts Milk Bank is now the UK's largest human milk bank, supporting over 50 neonatal units and hundreds of families in the community with access to specialist lactation support and donor milk after healthcare professional referral. The HMF also facilitates and supports research to create a truly evidence-based effective service.

    The International Marce Society

    Global

    • World maternal mental health
    • Research

    Dedicated to supporting research and assistance surrounding prenatal & postpartum mental health for mothers, fathers and their babies.

    The Marcé Society was formed at an International Conference in 1980. The purpose of that conference was to bring together different strands of research in puerperal mental disorders. It was recognised that there needed to be a forum to discuss puerperal mental illness in its broadest sense and a Society was formed. The Society was named after Louis Victor Marcé, a French psychiatrist who wrote the first treatise entirely devoted to puerperal mental illness, published in 1858.

    The principal aim of the Society is to promote, facilitate and communicate about research into all aspects of the mental health of women, their infants and partners around the time of childbirth. This involves a broad range of research activities ranging from basic science through to health services research.

    The Mental Health Hub by MeYouWellbeing

    UK-wide

    • Counselling
    • Information

    At The Mental Health Hub by MeYouWellbeing, our core belief is that mental health is just as important as physical health and that we all need mental health support. Whether that's because we're going through a mental health crisis or whether it's because we simply need to unpack things from our past. The Mental Health Hub by MeYouWellbeing prioritises mental health support which is accessible, trauma informed, culturally appropriate and free from financial, administrative or technical barriers.

    Our goal is to be the number one provider of equitable, free (or low cost) mental health support in the UK. We actively work to ensure we meet the needs of service users from diverse backgrounds and have multiple layers and strategies in place to capture potential vulnerabilities so that they can be addressed and accommodated. We understand mental health intimately with the majority of our team coming from direct lived experiences. Our service users come from all faiths, heritages and countries, and are matched with therapists within 10 days.

    For more information about The Mental Health Hub by MeYouWellbeing, to collaborate with us or for referrals and support - please get in touch with the team at hello@mywmentalhealth.org.uk.

    How to get help from The Mental Health Hub by MeYouWellbeing

    The Miscarriage Association

    UK-wide

    • Support groups
    • Helpline
    • Online support
    • Information

    The Miscarriage Association exists to provide support and information to anyone affected by the often deeply distressing experiences of miscarriage, ectopic or molar pregnancy, and to raise awareness of their impact.
    We achieve this through:
    - Our staffed support services, including our telephone and live chat helpline; email and social media direct messaging
    - Our comprehensive, evidence-based website
    - Our patient information leaflets – available for all free of charge, including for all healthcare settings throughout the UK
    - Online and in-person peer support groups
    - Our online communities (forum and private social media groups)
    - Offering training and learning for healthcare professionals in providing high quality care for patients experiencing pregnancy loss
    - Offering advice, guidance and training for workplaces on best practice in supporting employees
    - Contributing to research into and around the impact of pregnancy loss
    - Raising awareness of the facts and feelings around pregnancy loss and reducing the stigma and taboo often associated with it
    - Advocating for those affected and ensuring their voices and experiences are heard by policy and decision-makers.

    How to get help from The Miscarriage Association

    The Motherhood Group

    UK-wide

    • Policy
    • Inequalities
    • Counselling
    • Peer support
    • Doula
    • Legal support
    • Campaigning

    The Motherhood Group connects mothers through events, workshops and meet-ups. They create a safe space for mothers to share challenges, triumphs, questions and advice on their personal motherhood journey, and provide support and encouragement.

    How to get help from The Motherhood Group

    The Parent Rooms

    Northern Ireland

    • Classes
    • Peer support
    • Community

    The Parent Rooms (formerly We Are Pangs) aim to make sure every parent in Northern Ireland has access to support and services to help them improve and maintain their mental health.

    How to get help from The Parent Rooms

    The Patients Association

    UK-wide

    • Policy
    • Advocacy
    • Research
    • Campaigning

    The Patients Association is an independent patient charity campaigning for improvements in health and social care for patients.

    Uniquely for a charity with a remit covering all health and care issues, we work with patients directly: they are our members and supporters, and also the people who benefit from our help and advice services. Through our helpline we support thousands of people each year with their concerns and queries about the health and social care system.

    We also speak to government, the NHS and other stakeholders about patients' priorities and concerns, to ensure the patient voice is heard and acted upon.
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