Supporting Parents with Learning Disabilities/Neuro-diversity to Build Bonds & Break Cycles with Their Babies Webinar Recording

In this webinar, we are joined by Dr Lisa Marsland (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, BABS Lead & Associate Director for Vulnerable Complex Families) and Mrs Andrea Sissons (Mental Health Practitioner and BABS Learning Disability/ Neurodiversity Champion) who talk about the ground breaking BABS (Building Attachment and Bonds Service) strengths-based, psycho-social support and interventions that are offered to vulnerable parents and babies, which helps them to build good bonds, attachment relationships, break negative cycles, along with stigma and risk-aversive practice.

Reflecting on a family’s story/journey and the work of Sefton BABS – we will understand the impact, outcomes (health, social and economic) and huge difference that parent infant mental health services can make in particular, to the lives of parents with Learning Disabilities/Neuro-diversity and their babies.

Lisa and Andrea, along with the rest of the BABS Workforce are passionate and committed to ensuring that the most vulnerable, marginalised families with the highest health, social and economic inequalities in the community are offered the right support at the right time by the MDT system, which will equip and set them up as parents to ‘succeed’ – not ‘fail’.