Directorate of Social Affairs / Casablanca Center of Mental Disability


General Information


Type of Organization:

Governmental

Acronym:

Governorate:

Salfeet

Establishment Year:

1982

Address:

Salfit / Near the old emergency department

Telephone:

09-2515734

Website:

Fax:

09-2515734

E-mail:

WH SALFEET@GIMAIL.COM

Person in Charge

Name:

AMANY SHAHEEN

Position:

Director

Telephone:

09-2515734

Mobile:

0599047007

E-mail:

am shaheen@gimil.com

Staff:

Social Worker (2) Physio-Therapist (1)

Mission & Goals


Mission:


Goals:

The center helps people with severe intellectual disability through rehabilitation, to become able to integrate into the community and deliver basic needs and a decent life by maintaining the following objectives:

General objective:
To offer, Children with intellectual disabilities in the West Bank, all the services in terms of: (residential, behavior modification "behavioral services", health and psychological therapeutic, recreational and community services.
Goals:
1 - Offer training and rehabilitation programs for the mentally handicapped to achieve full independence and self-reliance and personal capacity development.
2 - Development of personal abilities of children so that they are able to integration within their families and society after leaving the center.
3 - To reduce the burden of families and care givers for this category, especially for poor families.
4 - Strengthening family relationships between the disabled child and his family through the guidance of the family on how to deal with disabled people.
5 - Public awareness and community regarding the traditional thoughts of people with special needs by highlighting their potential and their creative energies.
6 - Creating programs and activities to integrate of disabled children with non-disabled children.
7 - Keep up with scientific progress and scientific research direction for this category.

Target Groups


Children

Activities / Interventions


Psychological intervention & Clinical management
Basic counselling for individuals
Basic counselling for groups

Time of implementation:

MorningEvening

Place of implementation:

Center

Geographical Distribution of the Services / Activities:

City

Cost of the services provided:

Free

Mental and Behavioral Disorders


Behavioral & emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in child & adolescence
Hyper kinetic disorders
Conduct disorders
Mental disability
Mild
Moderate
Sever

Training


1 – The way to deal with the cycle of people with disabilities and the intervention in times of crisis.
2 – Wechsler test for the diagnosis of a mental disability.
3 - Violence against women.
4 - Guide leader in the development of life skills for young men and women.
5 - Treatment by eye movement.