Al- Sadiq Al- Taieb

General Information
Type of Organization:	Local NGO	Acronym:	ASTA
Governorate:	Jerusalem (Branch Office)	Establishment Year:	1986
Address:	Al 'Eizariya / Al Iskan circle	Telephone:	02-2799593
Website:	www.alsadiqaltaieb.org.ps	Fax:	02-2799593
E-mail:	alsadiq-3@p.oi.com
Person in Charge Name: Majed A'loosh Position: Director Telephone: 02-2407619 Mobile: 0505312118 E-mail: al_sadiq22000@yahoo.com
Staff:	Psychiatrist (1) Psychologist (2) Social Worker (5) Physio-Therapist (1)

Mission & Goals

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Mission:

The association seeks to strengthen Palestinian civil society and protect it from the social disease of drugs and alcohol addiction through comprehensive programs that include related interventions to the addict and his family and his community, and focus on providing treatment and rehabilitation for addicts and community. Furthermore, the association provides outreach programs and extended psychological, social programs and support to the addicts and their families.

Goals:

The basic aim of ASTA is to provide social awareness of the dangerous outcomes of drug abuse and alcohol use in the local Palestinian community through the achievement of the following objectives:
. Increasing social awareness of the drug problem and alcohol abuse and the strategies to
get rid of this social disease among all categories in the society and specifically among the youth through lectures, group discussions, visual and auditory means and public media.
. Providing the addict’s family members with psycho-social guidance services to assist them to overcome their problems and crisis situations resulting from the addiction of one oftheir family members.
. Providing the addicts with diagnostic, individual and group psychosocial therapy and rehabilitation services at the Treatment Center.
. Training functional youth leaders to effectively support their peers to abstain from indulging in the world of drug addiction and maladaptive behaviors.
. Providing professional and educational training for Palestinian university students and institutions of higher learning specialized in the field of human and social sciences.

Target Groups

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Children

Women

Men

Elderly

Families

Activities / Interventions

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Information dissemination to the community at large
	Information on the current situation, relief efforts or available services
	Messages on positive coping
Facilitation of conditions for community local
	Support for emergency relief that is initiated by the community
psychosocial work
	Psychological first aid (PFA)
	Lining vulnerable individuals/families to resources
Psychological intervention & Clinical management
	Basic counselling for individuals
	Basic counselling families
	Basic counselling for groups
General activities to support MHPSS
	Training. / TOT
	Advocacy

Time of implementation:	Morning	Evening
Place of implementation:	Center	Home	School	Community	Other
Geographical Distribution of the Services / Activities:	City	Village	Camp	Bedouins
Cost of the services provided:	Partial Cost

Mental and Behavioral Disorders

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Mental & behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use
	Alcohol
	Drugs , opioids, cannabinoids

Training

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1 – Addicted children.
2 - Awareness for the affected family and the marginalized groups.
3 - Psychological follow-up after treatment.