Jasmine Society for specialneeds

General Information
Type of Organization:	Local NGO	Acronym:	JCS
Governorate:	Ramallah & Al-Bireh	Establishment Year:	2002
Address:	Bireh / Al-shara quarter - Behind Eiffel Sweets	Telephone:	02-2951144
Website:	www.jasmine.ps	Fax:	02-2951145
E-mail:	jasminesociety@palnet.com
Person in Charge Name: Omar Mohammad Amin Position: Head of Executive Committee Telephone: 02-2951144 Mobile: 0562200202 E-mail: jasmineomar@gmail.com
Staff:	Psychologist (2) Psychiatric Nurse (2) Social Worker (1) Vocational Specialist (1) Community Worker (2) Occupational Therapist (3) Physio-Therapist (3) Speech Therapist (3)

Mission & Goals

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Mission:

To work on the care and rehabilitation of children with disabilities and help them to rely on themselves as much as possible.

Goals:

1- Providing services, rehabilitation and developing skills of children with
special needs through educational programs with scientific quality that depend on dealing with each child as an individualized case.
2- Establishing sections specialized in rehabilitation of children with special needs
3- Establishing productive/income generating projects with families of special needs cases.
4- Training and employment of special needs cases through training programs with high quality.
5- Setting and implementing plans and programs that secure the principle of full integration of handicapped with special needs in the society.
6- Rehabilitation and training of Autistic children.

Target Groups

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Children

Women

Activities / Interventions

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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
General activities to support MHPSS
	Training. / TOT
	Technical or clinical supervision
	Psychosocial support for staff / volunteers
	Advocacy
	Research

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

Mental and Behavioral Disorders

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Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
	Emergency
Disorders of psychological development
	Specific developmental of speech & language
	Scholastic skill
Behavioral & emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in child & adolescence
	Hyper kinetic disorders
	Conduct disorders
	Behavioral & emotional disorders
Mental disability
	Mild
	Moderate
	Sever
Behavioral syndrome associated with physiological disturbances & physical factors
	Sleep disorders
	Nonorganic eating disorders

Training

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1 - the care and rehabilitation of people with special needs.
2 - Training of speech, occupational and physical therapy for children.