Our mission, at Family Mental Wealth, is to enable families to help their children build mentally healthy lives.
Evidence shows that family-based self-help tools are particularly valuable for effective prevention and early intervention, as well as supporting treatment for children who are mentally unwell.
Equipping children and their parents/carers with appropriate knowledge, skills, and tools improves mental health outcomes for the child and their parents/carers, reducing the need for clinical interventions.
Thanks to government funding, over several years, we have been researching and developing Headway®, a suite of family-based, digital, self-help tools.
Find out more in the Headway® page.
In this short video Dr Elizabeth NcNaught and her father Nick Pollard (co-founders of Family Mental Wealth) describe how mental ill-health can develop, and how families can help at three key stages: turning risk into resilience, spotting the signs, and crafting the care: