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Chaired by Elaine Hanzak, Author, Advocate and Speaker on perinatal mental health (with lived experience), this National CPD Certified conference will provide you with practical guidance for improving perinatal mental health crisis services for women, and reducing maternal suicide.
“Suicide is a leading cause of death for women during pregnancy and the first postnatal year”
Maternal Mental Health Alliance 2019
“Maternal suicide is the third largest cause of direct maternal deaths occurring during or within 42 days of the end of pregnancy. However, it remains the leading cause of direct deaths occurring during pregnancy or up to a year after the end of pregnancy, with 1 in 7 women who die in the period between 6 weeks and one year after pregnancy dying by suicide"
MBRRACE UK Saving Lives, Improving Mothers Care
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improve perinatal mental health crisis services and support
- Learn from outstanding practice in delivering crisis support
- Reflect on the lived experience, national developments and learning
- Improve accessibility and responses to perinatal mental health crisis
- Develop your skills in crisis prevention and intervention
- Understand how you can improve emergency assessment during mental health crisis
- Identify key strategies for improving care and support for vulnerable women
- Ensure effective support for people with pre-existing current or past mental health conditions
- Ensure fathers are supported
- Understand high risk factors, warning signs and red flags including previous mental illness, learning from suicides after a pregnancy or postnatal loss, after birth trauma or after removal of their infant into care
- Implement best evidence in maternal suicide prevention
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence
