Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture

General Information
Type of Organization:	Local NGO	Acronym:	TRC
Governorate:	Jenin (Main Branch)	Establishment Year:	1997
Address:	Jenin / Downtown - facing Al Nimer Mall - zohar kasbari- 5th floor	Telephone:	04-2430362
Website:	www.trc-pal.org	Fax:	04-2430363
E-mail:	info@trc-pal.org
Person in Charge Name: Khader Rasras Position: Director of North district Telephone: 022961710 Mobile: 059977551108 E-mail: info@trc-pal.org
Staff:	Psychiatrist (1) Psychologist (1)

Mission & Goals

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Mission:

TRC’s mission is to contribute significantly to the eradication of torture, organized violence, and other human rights abuses. TRC also endeavors to eliminate the culture of impunity felt by many of the perpetrators which is so rife throughout Palestine.

Goals:

Main global objectives:
- Contribute to poverty reduction in developing countries.
- Promote sustainable human development in developing countries.
- Contribute to peace freedom, and human security, promoting respect for human rights and democratic systems development.
- Contribute to achieving the purposes of the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000.
- Promote gender equality in developing countries.
1 - continue to provide psychological and social service, treatment and rehabilitation for victims of torture and organized violence and their families.
2 - Building a culture of general community based on respect for the values ​​and principles of humanity stemming from international humanitarian law and international law of human rights and conventions against torture and organized violence and defend the rights of the victims and those affected.
3 - to contribute to the transmission of experience and knowledge through the training center for capacity building of institutions and personnel in the areas of human rights and mental health and the prevention and criminalization of torture.
4 - Work on the continuity of service for the victims by maintaining the sustainability of the institution, by building a strategy and management structure provides that, in addition to maintaining the developmental role played by the institution in the community by focusing on human rights issues, and torture, and organized violence.

Target Groups

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Children

Youth

Women

Men

Elderly

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
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
Safe spaces
	Child & Youth friendly spaces
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
	Psychotherapy
Clinical management of mental disorders
	Pharmacological management of mental disorder
	Inpatient mental health care
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	Home	School	Clinic	Community
Geographical Distribution of the Services / Activities:	City	Village	Camp	Bedouins
Cost of the services provided:	Free	Partial Cost

Mental and Behavioral Disorders

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Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
	Phobic anxiety disorders
	Obsessive – compulsive
	Acute stress disorders
	Grief
	PTSD
	Adjustment disorders
	Brief depressive
	Mixed anxiety & depressive
	Somatoform disorders
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
	Emotional disorders (separation anxiety)
	Behavioral & emotional disorders
Mental disability
	Mild
	Moderate
	Sever
Behavioral syndrome associated with physiological disturbances & physical factors
	Sleep disorders
	Nonorganic eating disorders
Disorders of adult personality & behavior
	Specific personality disorders
	Habit & impulse disorders
	Gender identity
Organic, including symptomatic mental disorders
	Dementia in Alzheimer diseases
	Dementia in other diseases
	Other mental disorders due to brain damage & function
Mental & behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use
	Alcohol
	Drugs , opioids, cannabinoids
Schizophrenia & delusional disorders
	Schizophrenia
	Psychotic disorders
Mood (affective) disorders
	Manic
	Depressive

Training

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1 - Principles of Mental Health.
2 – Training university students.
3 - Training security forces for human rights.
4 – Treatment with literature.