Palestinian Working Woman's Society for Development

General Information
Type of Organization:	Local NGO	Acronym:	PWWSD
Governorate:	Jenin (Branch Office)	Establishment Year:	1991
Address:	Jenin / Abu Baker street-Al Basateen building-above Al Shalabi library	Telephone:	04-2501610
Website:	www.pwwsd.org	Fax:	04-2501610
E-mail:	pwwsd@palnet.com
Person in Charge Name: Suzanne Jarrar Position: Coordinator Telephone: 04-2501610 Mobile: 0597181423 E-mail: jenin@pwwsd.org
Staff:	Psychologist (1) Social Worker (1) Community Worker (1) Educational Counselor (1)

Mission & Goals

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Mission:

The Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development is Palestinian national grassroots women organization that aims for gender equality and the eradication all forms of discrimination against women through strengthening, empowering and mobilizing women’s participation in the development processes, the promotion of women civic and human rights and by improving women’s and girls mental health and psychological well- being.

Goals:

1 - Promotion and empowerment of women in areas of decision-making.
2 - To contribute to the development of laws, regulations and administrative procedures and structures to ensure equality, in addition to eliminating all forms of discrimination.
3 - To provide psychological and social support for women and their children and work to reduce violence against them in all forms of discrimination.
4 - To contribute to the development of a progressive feminist speech.
5 - Development of institutional, financial and organizational performance within the association.

Target Groups

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Children

Youth

Women

Families

Activities / Interventions

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Psychosocial support in education
	Psychosocial support to student teachers
psychosocial work
	Psychological first aid (PFA)
Psychological intervention & Clinical management
	Basic counselling for individuals
	Basic counselling families
	Basic counselling for groups
General activities to support MHPSS
	Technical or clinical supervision
	Advocacy

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

Mental and Behavioral Disorders

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Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
	Emergency
	Mixed anxiety & depressive

Training

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1 – The way of directing cases and dealing with and following them up.
2 - Principles of Mental Health.