Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation

General Information
Type of Organization:	Local NGO	Acronym:	BASR
Governorate:	Bethlehem	Establishment Year:	1960
Address:	Beit Jala / Beit Jala-Cremisan Street	Telephone:	02-2744050
Website:	www.basr.org	Fax:	02-2744053
E-mail:	basr@basr.org
Person in Charge Name: Imad Abu Mohor Position: Administration Director Telephone: 02-2744052 Mobile: E-mail: imad@basr.org
Staff:	Psychiatrist (1) Psychologist (1) Social Worker (6) Other (1)

Mission & Goals

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Mission:

BASR is a national development NGO functioning as a resource center, empowering people with disabilities, offering them pioneer health and rehabilitation services and provide the Palestinian community with professional specialized medical services from a human rights and inclusive development perspectives.

Goals:

In order to achieve the vision and tackle the problems present in the surrounding environment and to be able to manage the change in the future, BASR works on reaching the following strategic objectives:
• First Strategic Objective: increase community and self readiness of people with disabilities towards inclusiveness.
• Second Strategic Objective: Reinforce the physical and psychological capacities of people with disabilities to enable them for effective participant in the community.
• Third Strategic Objective: Enhance the Palestinian people access to specialized health care
• Fourth Strategic Objective: Reinforce the organization’s readiness to implement its strategic plan.

Target Groups

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Children

Youth

Women

Men

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
Strengthening of community and family support
	Support for social support activities that are initiated by the community
	Strengthening of parenting/family supports
	Facilitation of community supports to vulnerable persons
	Structured recreational or creative activities
Psychosocial support in education
	Psychosocial support to student teachers
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
	Psychotherapy
Clinical management of mental disorders
	Pharmacological management of mental disorder
	Non-pharmacological management of mental disorder
General activities to support MHPSS
	Training. / TOT
	Technical or clinical supervision
	Psychosocial support for staff / volunteers

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

Mental and Behavioral Disorders

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Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
	Phobic anxiety disorders
	Obsessive – compulsive
	Acute stress disorders
	Emergency
	Grief
	PTSD
	Adjustment disorders
	Brief depressive
	Mixed anxiety & depressive
	Somatoform disorders
Disorders of psychological development
	Specific developmental of speech & language
	Scholastic skill
Behavioral & emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in child & adolescence
	Hyper kinetic disorders
	Behavioral & emotional disorders
Mental disability
	Mild
	Moderate
	Sever
Behavioral syndrome associated with physiological disturbances & physical factors
	Sleep disorders
	Nonorganic eating disorders
Mood (affective) disorders
	Manic
	Depressive

Training

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1 - Self-knowledge and to be most effective.
2 - Ways of dealing with children.
3 - Children growing programs.
4 - Attachment theory and communicating with children in early childhood.