Publish date: 14 August 2025

Building Attachment and Bonds Service (BABS)

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Introduction to attachment and developmental trauma

We’re pleased to offer specialist training, focused on parent infant mental health, for all staff and professionals supporting families in the community.

Date: Monday 22 September 2025
Time: 9.30am to 12.30pm
Location: Sutton Family Hub, Ellamsbridge Road, St Helens WA9 3PY

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This specialist evidence based training will equip professionals with an understanding of parent infant mental health and importantly how we can work together to support parent infant mental health. You will learn:

  • The importance of relationships and parent infant mental health in the first 1001 critical days
  • Parent infant bonding and attachment
  • Attachment based assessments, interventions and support for families
  • Trauma informed approaches to supporting families
  • How professionals can support families to build bonds and break difficult cycles.

To attend, please request an invitation: cmicb-ss.merseycare.babs@nhs.net