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

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:

:
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

ChildrenYouthWomenMenFamilies

Activities / Interventions

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:

CenterSchoolCommunity

Geographical Distribution of the Services / Activities:

CityVillageCampBedouins

Cost of the services provided:

Partial Cost

Mental and Behavioral 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
Emotional disorders (separation anxiety)
Behavioral & emotional disorders

Training

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.