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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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Maternal OCD

UK-wide

  • OCD

Maternal OCD is a charity co-founded by two mothers, Maria Bavetta and Diana Wilson, who have experienced and recovered from severe perinatal OCD. Maternal OCD aims to reduce stigma, provide support services, raise awareness of perinatal OCD and campaign for improved specialist services. Recent projects include a new online support group, working with the Royal College of Psychiatrists to create up to date literature, providing support resources for recovery and supporting researchers in this field. Follow us: @maternalocd

Maternity Action

UK-wide

  • Training
  • Maternity rights

Maternity Action is the UK’s leading charity committed to ending inequality and improving the health and well-being of pregnant women, partners and young children – from conception through to the child’s early years.

  • The Maternity Rights Advice Service delivers telephone and email advice to pregnant women and new parents on employment rights, maternity pay, maternity benefits and breastfeeding rights. We deliver a national service and regional services in partnership with the NHS.
  • The Employment Casework service, delivered in partnership with YESS Law, provides free legal casework and peer support for more complex cases or where women are in need of further support.
  • The Maternity Care Access Advice Service delivers advice and casework on charging for NHS care to migrant and asylum seeking women, midwives and advisers.
  • The Migrant Women’s Rights Service provides advice and training to midwives and voluntary sector workers on housing, income and healthcare for migrant, refugee and asylum seeking women.

How to get help from Maternity Action

McPin Foundation

UK-wide

  • Policy
  • Research

The McPin Foundation exists to transform mental health research by putting the lived experience of people affected by mental health problems at the heart of research methods and the research agenda.

Mellow Parenting

UK-wide

  • Training
  • Partners
  • Dads
  • Antenatal classes
  • Pregnancy

Mellow Parenting trains practitioners in a range of parenting programmes. Mellow Bumps is an antenatal programme, reducing anxiety in pregnancy and promoting bonding with the baby. Mellow Babies and Mellow Toddlers groups are offered to mums or dads and their children. These programmes have been shown to improve parental mental wellbeing and perceived child behaviour. Mellow Futures combines the Bumps and Babies programmes for mothers with learning difficulties or disabilities, aiming to meet the needs of a group of parents who are often missed by mainstream services.

Mental Health Foundation

UK-wide

  • Policy
  • Advocacy
  • Research

Our vision is for a world with good mental health for all. Our mission is to help people understand, protect, and sustain their mental health. Prevention is at the heart of what we do, because the best way to deal with a crisis is to prevent it from happening in the first place.

We have successfully worked with MMHA to deliver Babies in Mind a, a 3-year Big Lottery funded project to improve the provision of mental health services to mothers in pregnancy and in the first year of their baby. More recently, we partnered on Amplifying Maternal Voices project, a 2-year project which aims to spotlight the perinatal mental health experiences from seldom heard communities.

The Foundation also delivers Young Mums Connect which promotes and co-produces peer support for mothers aged 25 and under in Nottingham and Southwark.

Mental Health Foundation recently secured funding from Department for Health and Social Care called Creating Connections which is a suicide prevention project promoting confident conversations for those working with young mothers and care experienced young people.

Mind

UK-wide

  • Helpline
  • Online support
  • Peer support
  • Information

Mind is a leading mental health charity working in England and Wales. We provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem and we campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding. Work relating to maternal mental health continues across our network of 147 local Minds, including delivering the ‘Mums Matter’ service. In Wales, we were involved in the Children, Young People and Education Committee’s inquiry into perinatal mental health during the last Senedd term. Mind’s information pages include info about postnatal depression which was updated in 2020.

How to get help from Mind

Mindwise

Northern Ireland

  • Training
  • Policy
  • Advocacy
  • Campaigning

MindWise are a leading mental health charity in Northern Ireland who support people affected by mental illness in their journey from recovery to discovery.

Mothers at Home Matter

UK-wide

  • Policy
  • Research
  • Campaigning

Mothers at Home Matter provides support to mothers through campaigning activities that span a broad spectrum of policy areas from Health to Taxation and Welfare. MAHM calls for policies to better support family life, childhood and parental wellbeing and that recognise the importance of relationships and caregiving.

Mothers for Mothers

England

  • Charity
  • Peer support

We offer maternal mental health and wellbeing support, advice and information to women, birthing people and their families. As mothers who have lived experience of depression, anxiety and isolation during pregnancy or after the birth our one or more of our babies, we understand how hard early parenthood can feel and how difficult it can be to ask for help.

How to get help from Mothers for Mothers

Mothers Matter

Wales

  • Counselling
  • support

A not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing Pre- and Postnatal Mental Health support services to women, men and their families. Our offerings encompass one-2-one support and holistic well-being for women and men throughout pre conception, pregnancy and in the postnatal period.

Our comprehensive range of free services includes community-based home support, Integrative one-on-one counselling, enriching community groups, well-being hubs, supportive befriending groups, and enlightening education classes. These services are meticulously designed to proactively address perinatal mental health challenges among new parents. In addition to our mental health services, we extend our support by offering clothing banks and nappy banks, ensuring that basic needs are met. Above all, we provide a non-judgmental space where the simple act of being heard and understood can make all the difference.

How to get help from Mothers Matter

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