Parent Mental Health Day 2023 - 27th January 2023
Today is Parent Mental Health Day, it was established by the charity stem4 which supports teenagers and young adults to build positive mental health.
Parent Mental Health Day aims to encourage understanding and awareness of the importance of parent mental health and its potential impact on the whole family system with the theme ‘Balance’. The day aims to get parents and carers to take a moment to reflect on the balance they have in their lives, as well as how they balance looking after their family’s mental health and to take steps to make positive change and ‘balance out’.
Parent Mental Health Day is here to shine a light on the unsung heroes who have parented under changed circumstances throughout the pandemic, but now need some focus on themselves as well as their children and young people. By getting parents (and their employers) engaged in discussions about how to look after their own and their family’s mental health, PMHD breaks the stigma surrounding parent mental health and starts a discussion on how parents are coping too.
With a focus on encouraging balance, Parent Mental Health Day encourages parents, carers, and employers to acknowledge the difficulties parents across the world have and are facing and, through this sharing, develop ways to change.
There are many ways that employers can support parents in the workplace, below are just a few ways:
Encourage transparency and communication
Lead with empathy.
Focus on the quality of work over the quality of hours
Work with employees to find creative solutions
offer strong support programmes
If your business needs help supporting parents in the workplace, you can book a HR audit by contacting me at HRAdmin@KMHRSolutions.co.uk or visiting my website for more information.
