Rawan Association for Child Development

General Information
Type of Organization:	Local NGO	Acronym:
Governorate:	Ramallah & Al-Bireh	Establishment Year:	2008
Address:	Ramallah / ALbireh\um elsharayet\awdeh.st beside the befena head gerter	Telephone:	02-2964588
Website:	http://www.rawan-ps.org	Fax:	02-2964588
E-mail:	rawanassociation@gmail.com
Person in Charge Name: Salam Asia Position: General Executive Manager Telephone: 02-2964588 Mobile: 0598180052 E-mail: rawanassociation@gmail.com
Staff:	Psychologist (1) Social Worker (1) Occupational Therapist (1) Speech Therapist (2) Educational Counselor (7) Other (2)

Mission & Goals

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Mission:

To focus on the leading role of Rawan Association in delineating and treating learning difficulties and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which are universally recognized as atypical trends that have to be treated using professionally appropriate and specific programs and methods.Rawan Association aims to collaborate with official and civil institutions in order to provide the appropriate treatments for targeted children and integrate them in the community.

Goals:

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To highlight the suffering of children with learning difficulties and ADHD and treat them. Protect their rights and work on preventing the spread of the problem, and decrease the numbers of children who suffer from this trend and remove all obstacles that impede their integration into mainstream schools with their typical peers.


Rawan's Goals:

1. Working on providing justice and equality for the targeted children within the society by spreading awareness about their problems through advocacy campaigns in schools, higher education institutions, and through reaching out to decision makers.
2. Capacity building of community and educational institutions regarding early detection of the targeted groups and protecting their rights and ensuring their inclusion into mainstream academic and social settings.
3. Developing and standardizing the required tools to measure and diagnose learning difficulties and ADHD.
4. Training and improving the skills of Rawan Association’s staff in working with the targeted children inside the organization and in other locations.
5. Developing and implementing projects, which provide Rawan Association and beneficiaries with sustainable financial support to help it continue with its mission.
6. Developing research projects to produce scientific data and statistics on the organization’s work and it’s effects on the targeted group in order to achieve the organization’s goals and improve services in the future.

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
Safe spaces
	Child & Youth friendly spaces
Psychosocial support in education
	Psychosocial support to student teachers
psychosocial work
	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

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

Mental and Behavioral Disorders

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Disorders of psychological development
	Specific developmental of speech & language
	Scholastic skill
Behavioral & emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in child & adolescence
	Hyper kinetic disorders
	Emotional disorders (separation anxiety)
	Behavioral & emotional disorders

Training

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1 - Teacher training in schools and at the center to handle students with learning difficulties.
2 - Teacher training through workshops on behavior modification programs.
3 - Parents training to deal with children with learning difficulties.
4 – Ventilation and activation programs.