The Gaza Community Mental Health Program (GCMHP) was established in 1990 by Dr. Eyad el-Sarraj to meet the mental health needs of people who were exposed on a daily basis to humiliation, loss of freedom, injury, detention, destruction of homes and the loss of family members. Much of GCMHPs work is directed at helping traumatized children, women who are victims of violence, and the victims of torture. The GCMHP now has hundreds of paid staff, a main facility in Gaza City, a research center, and community mental health clinics in Gaza City, Khan Younis, the Deir el-Balah refugee camp, and the Jabalya refugee camp. It has also established the Rachel Corrie Womens Empowerment Project as well as crisis intervention programs, a rehabilitation program for drug abusers, a Childrens Project, and a Training and Education Department that offers a postgraduate diploma in Community Mental Health and Human Rights and courses for teachers and nurses. It has given individual psychiatric and family therapy to tens of thousands of people. Through its crisis interventions, trainings, hospital, school and prison visits, and public awareness campaigns, it has reached one in ten persons in the Gaza Strip.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:35:59 +0000
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