Children’s mental health in Gaza is pushed beyond breaking, as Gaza’s children are trapped in a cycle of suffering, amid war, chaos, death, destruction, and displacement. To help alleviate the suffering, UOSSM USA, in partnership with UOSSM Canada and Islamic Relief Canada, launched a mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) project to support the families in Gaza, with focus on children and women. This project is contributing to improving the well-being and the resilience in the war-affected communities in Gaza, fostering the mental health conditions of the war-affected populations by providing free-of-charge, specialized mental health services, which will alleviate the psychological and social impacts of the crisis. The children in Gaza need life-saving support.
Watch the video below- an amazing success story of a young girl, Rama.
The MHPSS teams are targeting both locals and internally displaced persons (IDPs) including children, women, and men, who may have signs and symptoms of one or more mental health disorders. The project is also focusing on frontline health workers in Gaza including nurses and paramedics by providing capacity-building trainings on mental health related topics to increase their knowledge on detection and referrals of cases in need for mental health services.
Our MHPSS teams are providing the following:
- MHPSS Services-Group Awareness Raising Sessions
- Parenting Skills
- Psychosocial Support Services (PSS) Activities for Children – Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
- Training and Capacity Building
Our teams have already provided MHPSS services to over 2400 people – the majority are children and women!
Please donate today to help children in Gaza: https://secure.uossm.us/forms/gazarelief
