Provision of Specialized Mental Health and Free Telephone Counseling (Hotline) Services to Women, Men, Boys and Girls Affected by Violence in the Gaza Strip. The project of " Provision of Specialized Mental Health and Free Telephone Counseling (HL) Services to Women, Men, Boys, and Girls Affected by Violence in Gaza Strip" aims at contributing to alleviate the effects of the Israeli occupation practices through the delivery of quality specialized mental health services to the most vulnerable women, men, girls and boys who are affected by conflict-related violence and violations and living in the most affected and marginalized socio-economically vulnerable and under-served communities through the following interventions:
1. Provision of specialized mental health services for 400 children (boys and girls) and 600 adults (women and men) who have displayed symptoms of severe psychosocial distress. By using the existing referral system, those cases will be detected and referred by the case managers and psychosocial support staff working in Child Protection and Health clusters and 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.
2. Provision of free telephone counseling service for 800 persons 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 also 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. This service provides another differentiated aspect, where some cases will be detected and referred to legal and protection services provided by other service providers in Gaza Strip. 
3. Produce a monthly snapshot related to telephone counseling service including gender, area, citizenship and age-disaggregated data in addition to received psychological disorders among those assisted to be shared with all stakeholders to help improve the prevention and protection response and for joint coordinated advocacy messages amp actions. 
4. Promote the free telephone counselling service through disseminating 60,000 Short Messaging Service (SMS) among adults (men and women) as a promotional tool.
5. Raise community awareness and encourage them to seek the needed psychosocial support offered via GCMHP and promote using the free hotlines in addition to a description to the available psychological services and the importance of community mental health especially in tough times, through using media tools such as radio spots.
6. Produce one fact sheet, including gender and age-disaggregated data, to document trends/patterns of psychological disorders among those assisted to be shared with all stakeholders to help improve the prevention and protection response and for joint coordinated advocacy messages amp actions.