Led by Rochelle Hine

Members: Violette McGaw, Scott Yates, Andrea Reupert.

Lived and living exprience members: Harlequin Goodes, Jessica Coburn and Kc McEwan

Industry Partners: Rose Cuff and Leanne Vuong (Satellite Foundation) and Lotti O’Dea (community member)

Goal: Explore the experience of stigma for families where a parent has mental health challenges

Publications:

Hine, R., Gladstone, B., Reupert, A., O’Dea, L., Cuff, R., Yates, S., ... & Foster, K. (2024). StigmaBeat: collaborating with rural young people to co-design films aimed at reducing mental health stigma. Qualitative Health Research, 34(6), 491-506. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323231211454

Reupert, A., Gladstone, B., Helena Hine, R., Yates, S., McGaw, V., Charles, G., ... & Foster, K. (2021). Stigma in relation to families living with parental mental illness: An integrative review. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 30(1), 6-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12820

Yates, S., Gladstone, B., Foster, K., Silvén Hagström, A., Reupert, A., O’Dea, L., ... & Hine, R. (2024). Epistemic injustice in experiences of young people with parents with mental health challenges. Sociology of Health & Illness, 46(4), 702-721. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13730

Other output: a series of short films

Co-led by: Darryl Maybery and Gavin Davidson

Members: Anne Grant, Genevieve Piché, Scott Yates, Iryna Culpin, Brad Morgan

Goal: International program of research seeking to determine and achieve a consensus on the most important research aims, outcomes and instruments to measure outcomes for families where a parent has a mental illness.

Publications:

Maybery, D., Grant, A., Piché, G., Yates, S., Rudd, T., Dunkley-Smith, A., & Davidson, G. (2024). Summarising quantitative outcomes in parental mental illness research. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13385

Piché, G., Davidson, G., Dunkley-Smith, A., Grant, A., Yate, S., and Maybery, D. (2024). Exploring past research to move forward: a scoping review of aims, outcomes, and recommendations in parental mental illness qualitative research. Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi.10.3389/fpubh.2024.1427432

Led by: Becca Allchin

Members: Joanne Nicholson, Kurt Albermann, Karin van Doesum, Lina Gatsou, Rochelle Hine, [Previous members: Kate Blake-Holmes, Sophie Isobel]

Goal: To build an explanation as to what enables spread and sustainability in Family Focused Interventions

Publications:

Allchin, B., Albermann, K., Blake-Holmes, K., Gatsou, L., Hine, R., van Doesum, K., & Nicholson, J. (2024). Sustaining efforts to improve family well-being with parents with mental ill health and substance (mis) use. Frontiers in psychiatry, 15, 1376409. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1376409

Led by: Kate Blake-Holmes

Members: Claire McCartan, Anne Grant, Emma Maynard, Emma Loudon, Gavin Davidson, Susan Langdon, Joanne Nicholson, Andrea Reupert, Becca Allchin, Scott Yates, Lina Gatsou

Goal: To explore service usage of parent with mental illness in particular, how services are navigated. Following the publication of the first publication (Supporting service users to navigate complex service recipients to navigate complex service systems: An interdisciplinary scoping review - see details below) a further scoping review has been completed and is under review on existing literature on multiple service use. The group is also exploring funding opportunities to carry out research in this area.

Publications:

Davidson, G., Allchin, B., Blake-Holmes, K., Grant, A., Lagdon, S., McCartan, C., Maybery, D., Nicholson, J., & Reupert, A. (2023). Supporting service recipients to navigate complex service systems: an interdisciplinary scoping review. Health and Social Care in the Community, Article 8250781. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/8250781

Blake-Holmes, K., McCartan, C., Allchin, B., Bagge, S., Davidson, G., Grant, A., Harris, J., Lagdon, S., Loudon, E., Maynard, E. and Reupert, A., 2026. Parental Mental Ill‐Health: Experiences of Navigating Multiple Services—A Systematic Review Conducted by Learnt and Lived Experience Researchers. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2026(1), p.3187904.

https://doi.org/10.1155/hsc/3187904

Led by: Emma Maynard

Members: Kate Blake-Holmes, Emma Loudon, Anne Grant, Iryna Culpin, Scott Yates, Andrea Reupert, Kurt Alberman, Lina Gastou, Sinead McGilloway, Abby Dunn, Bente Weimand

Goals:

Looking back at school - empirical project using seedcorn/existing funds to collect data in England, Norther Ireland, Irish Republic, Norway and Australia, interviewing 8-12 COPMI now aged 18-25 about their past school experiences - what support did they receive, in what way could it have been better. Lead – Emma Maynard 

Policy review - scoping international policy for identifying and supporting COPMI and PMH in schools. Lead - Scott Yates

Led by: Samantha Cartwright-Hatton

Members: Iryna Culpin, Chris McCree, Abby Dunn, Sinead McGilloway

Goal: To develop a database of policies on family-focused practice in mental health settings around the world.

Data collection in progress: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKHjWiMY6fremO2RWFgc1bLn-waPoiDZtWYctPRjPhgwdR4A/viewform?usp=sf_link

New Group Led by Adele Parkinson

Members: Rochelle Hine, Bente Weimand

Consultant: Grant Charles

Goal: see Indigenous representation and leadership within the Prato International group and the associated field of research. 

New Group Led by: Jean Paul

Members: Jean Paul, Melinda Goodyear, Joanne Nicholson, Irene Casey, Caroline Walters, Melissa Petrakis, Anne Ranning, Zhou Tian Hang

In progress…

New Group Led by: Katy Kaplan

Members: Jean Paul, Melinda Goodyear, Brad Morgan, Anne Dorothee Müller, Irene Casey, and Caroline Walters

Goal: To explore key ingredients of digital interventions for parents with a mental illness and their children.

In progress…

Led by: Kim Foster

Members: Abby Dunn, Sinead McGilloway, Violette McGaw, Andrea Reupert, Darryl Maybery, Sini Jacob, Johanna Boardman, Sophie Isobel, Genevieve Piche, Anne Grant

Goal: Implementation and evaluation of education on the EASE family-focused practice framework.

Publications:

Foster, K., Jacob, S., Maybery, D., Reupert, A., McGaw, V., Isobel, S., ... & Boardman, J. M. (2025). Proof‐of‐Concept Evaluation of EASE© Family‐Focused Education With Undergraduate Nursing Students. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 34(6), e70201.