Medicos del Mundo - Spain / Doctors of the World Spain


General Information

Type of Organization:

International NGO

Acronym:

MDM - Spain

Governorate:

Jericho (Branch Office)

Establishment Year:

2007

Address:

Jericho / Al-Qasab neighborhood / Salah al-Din Street - building no B19

Telephone:

02-2822643

Website:

https://www.medicosdelmundo.org/

Fax:

E-mail:

Person in Charge

Name:

ِِِAntonio Gonzalez

Position:

General Coordinator

Telephone:

02-2322643

Mobile:

0597770812

E-mail:

coord.palestine@medicosdelmundo.org

Staff:

Psychologist (3) Social Worker (1)

Mission & Goals

Mission:

MdM contributes to the universal right to health care through a real and effective framework of guaranteeing human rights.
The organization focuses its action on creating social change and providing/advocating for access to comprehensive, universal public health care for the entire population.


Goals:

Médicos del Mundo is an international, humanitarian, independent, horizontal and multidisciplinary association made up of volunteers and workers united by the commitment to build a more juster world. MdM works to realize the universal right to health through health care, denunciation, testimony, social mobilization and advocacy with excluded, vulnerable populations or victims of crisis.

Target Groups

ChildrenYouthWomenMenElderlyFamilies

Activities / Interventions

Information dissemination to the community at large
Information on the current situation, relief efforts or available services
Messages on positive coping
Strengthening of community and family support
Strengthening of parenting/family supports
psychosocial work
Psychological first aid (PFA)
Lining vulnerable individuals/families to resources
Psychological intervention & Clinical management
Basic counselling for groups
General activities to support MHPSS
Training. / TOT
Psychosocial support for staff / volunteers
Advocacy
Research

Time of implementation:

Morning

Place of implementation:

Community

Geographical Distribution of the Services / Activities:

Bedouins

Cost of the services provided:

Free

Mental and Behavioral Disorders

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

Training

1- MHPSS interventions in Emergency situations.
2- Basic Counseling skills for Field workers and School Counselors.

Research

THE PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPACT OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE ON THE BEDOUIN POPULATION OF THE WEST BANK