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Natasha Manning

Keynote speaker, doctoral candidate, and family systems change leader with over 18 years of frontline experience.

Natasha Manning, Founder and Director of Rise and Thrive Families CIC
Natasha Manning · Founder & Director

Natasha Manning

Founder & Director · Keynote Speaker · Doctoral Candidate
  • 18+ years across housing, mental health, early help, and safeguarding
  • Nine years managing local authority targeted support and parental mental health services
  • Doctoral research on parental mental health and child wellbeing
  • Keynote speaker and consultant on parenting after harm
Her Story

With over 18 years of experience supporting vulnerable families, I have worked across housing, mental health, early help, and safeguarding, specialising in whole-family approaches to trauma and recovery.

For the past nine years, I have managed local authority targeted support and parental mental health services, supporting families across all tiers of need, from early intervention to complex case coordination. I am a doctoral candidate at the Tavistock and Portman, researching the relationship between parental mental health and children's long-term wellbeing and development.

My leadership is grounded in both professional expertise and lived experience, and shaped by a commitment to faith, justice, and community transformation. I founded Rise and Thrive Families CIC to respond to the systemic gaps that leave parents unsupported, unseen, or penalised during times of distress.

I.
Keynote on trauma, parental mental health, and the nature versus nurture debate at the Royal College of Psychiatry Student Conference, Leeds (2025).
II.
Spoke to 700+ professionals on childhood trauma and early intervention at the Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress (2024), in a session chaired by Dr Lade Smith CBE.
III.
Invited speaker at a House of Commons briefing on the policy gap in child and family mental health.
IV.
Keynote on integration of Family Hubs at the Anna Freud National Conference (2023), and panellist at the National Centre for Family Hubs conference on what good integration looks like.
V.
Contributor to the Royal College of Psychiatry Children's Mental Health Position Statement (2023), now used as an example of good practice for clinicians, commissioners, and policymakers across the UK.
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