Enhancing the availability and accessibility of mental health services to boys, girls, men and women in vulnerable communities, and integrate MHPSS services into healthcare service delivery in Gaza. ltpgtltspan style="color: black font-family:"gtThis project aims at enhancing the
availability and accessibility of specialized mental
health services and supporting the well-being of vulnerable women,
men, girls, and boys with and without disabilities who have been affected by conflict-related
violence and household violence, through the delivery of specialized mental
health services and free telephone counselling services. In addition to
provision of supportive supervision sessions for health care service providers.
The project comes to contribute to the HRP 2023 to mitigate and respond to
the health concerns and risk factors arising from the repeated escalation of
hostilities. This project will also enforce the sustainability of MHPSS
responses through the promotion of mental health and psychosocial well-being
among health care staff, frontline workers, and volunteers. This will include
sessions on self-care provided by GCMHP expert professionals. This will all
contribute to the integration of mental health in health care services provided
by other service providers working under the umbrella of the health cluster.
The project interventions will include the following:lt/spangtlt/pgtltpgtltspan style="font-size: 12pt text-align: justify text-indent: -18pt font-family:"gt1.lt/spangtltspan style="text-align: justify text-indent: -18pt"gtltspan style="font-size: 12pt"gtProvision of lt/spangtltb style="font-size: 12pt"gtspecialized mental health services to 600 persons
including 200 children (boys and girls) and 400 adults (women and men) lt/bgtltspan style="font-size: 12pt"gtwho
have displayed symptoms of severe psychosocial distress. By using the existing
referral system, those cases will be detected and referred by the GCMHP PFA teams of psychologists, case managers, and psychosocial support
staff working in MHPSS networks. The clinical services will be provided by
specialized multi-disciplinary teams including psychiatrists, psychologists,
psychiatric nurses, social workers, and rehabilitation specialists at GCMHP
three community centers located in Gaza city, Deir El Balah and Khan Younis.
Therapy plans include psychotherapy, play therapy, medication, family
counseling, and home visits. As part of their lt/spangttherapeuticltspan style="font-size: 12pt"gt interventions, the lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 12pt"gt200 children will lt/spangtbenefit from recreational kits and toyslt/spangtlt/pgtltp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto
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of ltbgtfree telephone counseling service for 1600 personslt/bgt including children
and adults who couldn’t reach the GCMHP community mental health centers due to
economic or social barriers. Through this service, the telephone counselors
will provide psychoeducation, individual and family counseling, and detect and
refer children and adults with severe symptoms to GCMHP community centers to
receive specialized mental health services. This service helps overcome the
stigma attached to mental health problems. Some cases will be detected and referred to other services provided by other service providers.ltbrgtlt/spangtlt/pgtltpgt3.ltspan style="" id="docs-internal-guid-b63b4bef-7fff-d40a-2d1a-32e2d56ee829"gtltspan style="font-variant-numeric: normal font-variant-east-asian: normal vertical-align: baseline"gtConduct of ltbgt33 public awareness meetings with 660 adults (330 women,330 men) with/without disabilitieslt/bgt from all Gaza strip governorate by three mental health professionals to raise awareness about mental health aspects and provide psychological counselling. The public meetings will raise critical mental health topics and will include many interactive activities to enhance the discussion and participation among the participants.  lt/spangtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp class="" style=""gt4.provide ltbgtstructured group supportive supervision sessionslt/bgt to ltbgt96 health workers (8 supervision groups, 10 sessions for each group) lt/bgtincluding doctors, nurses, civil defense frontline workers, humanitarian
workers, and health officers etc. These sessions will contribute
to avoid secondary trauma among medical workers and to alleviate occupational
exhaustion resulting from work and life conditions and pressures, and preserves
the motivation of the supervisee to work, which subsequently leads to increased
levels of job satisfaction. this will include 2 recreational days.lt/pgtltp class="" style=""gt5.ltbgtRaise the community awareness on mental health issues and available services through disseminatinglt/bgt ltbgt540,000 SMS and lt/bgtltbgt5000 awareness lt/bgtltbgtbrochure.lt/bgt The topics will be carefully selected and will address promotion of mental health issues. It will provide helpful advice for the community. It also will clearly promote the free telephone counselling line (1800222333).lt/pgt