Brighton Parent Infant Psychological Therapy (BrightPIP) has a vision to change the future, one baby at a time. We want every baby in our community to grow up feeling safe, secure and loved. Our mission is to intervene at the earliest time with families to prevent maltreatment and support parents to have positive relationships with their children.

Every year, over 400 babies born in Brighton, are at risk of having 'insecure attachment'. This means that sadly these babies do not feel safe with their parents. This can be due to, for example, psychological impact of a premature baby, perinatal depression or anxiety, OCD, post-traumatic stress disorder following traumatic birth and many more types of trauma mums and dads can experience during pregnancy and beyond. Our families’ lives are often extra hard due to domestic abuse, poverty, poor quality parental relationships and unstable housing. Often parents have experienced high levels of childhood trauma in the form of abuse or neglect. They are not able to respond to their child’s needs as they have no experience of good parenting or were themselves in Care as children.

Kerry:

Trustee, Suzie Van Der Westhuron and Kerry Taylor will be running 10K on the Brighton marathon weekend. 850 pounds will help pay for the cost of running a Mellow Bumps group for vulnerable mums to be across the city. This will be held at a Children's Centre.