Some examples of 2022 achievements are as follow:
Under the first strategic goal:
- Provision of specialized mental health services to 4,459 cases at the three community centers including (465 B, 484 G, 1,690 M, 1,820 W). The assessments applied for both children and adults (SDQ, ICF) showed positive improvement in peoples wellbeing. 86.6% of clients manifested improvement in total difficulties. GCMHP applied a clients satisfaction survey with of 498 clients (51.4% male, 48.6% female), and produce a results report that showed a very good overall satisfaction among the clients with the provided services at (84.06%).
- Enhanced accessibility of at-risk men, women, boys and girls with/without disabilities to Mental Health interventions within/after emergencies: the mobile teams succeeded to visit 4,091 families and provided psychological first aid (PFA) service to 19,193 individuals (4,758 boys, 4,362 girls, 4,343 men, and 5,730 women). 6% of them were persons with disabilities. 1,000 families benefited from 1000 sanitization packages; 348 children (166 B, 182 G) benefited from 348 PFA kits, and 1,601 individuals (342 boys, 264 girls, 152 men, 843 women) benefited from counselling and psycho-education services. Moreover, 1,175 individuals referred by PFA teams and mobile clinics to GCMHP community centers to GCMHPs Community centres for specialized mental health services and to other service providers for other protection, legal, educational, and general health services.
Under the second strategic goal:
- Increased availability of trained and certified professionals: 181 undergraduate students (75 men and 106 women) received theoretical training at GCMHP, and 144 (75 M, 69 W) of them received practical training of the Psychiatry module. Moreover, 147 graduates students (17 men and 130 women) from different local universities received practical training in mental health and other fields at GCMHP community centers. Among them 137 students (15 men and 122 women) are from MHPSS disciplines.
- GCMHP achieves a professional achievement as 15 professionals were given memberships in the International Mediterranean Psychodrama Association. The professionals are considered trainers in the field of Psychodrama, after many years of theoretical and practical training. This was in cooperation with a group of international trainers and experts. Trainees were from GCMHP, the Ministry of Education, the Aisha Association for the Protection of Women and Children, the Culture and Free Thought Association, Islamic Relief, Medical Relief, Womens Affairs Center, and Qattan Center for the Child.
Under the third strategic goal:
- GCMHP succeeded in forming the largest partnership in the Gaza Strip with 13 kindergartens affiliated to 13 community-based organizations and serving around 2000 children. Reaching 8,199 of school-age and KG children and youth including (4,373 B, 3,826 G) at schools, kindergartens, sport clubs, and community-based programs and providing them with violence prevention interventions including counselling and psychological support services.
- Building the capacities of 50 professionals and case managers serving survivors and victims of GBV who received group supervision and stress management sessions including the workers in CFTA, GBV cluster, WAC, Women's Program Center-Al-Nuseirat, Zakher Association for the Developing of Palestinian Woman, Palestine Vanguards Association, and Abdel Shafi Community Health Association.
There were no major changes from the approved action plan and budget 2022. A minor disturbance happened during the upsurge of COVID-19 driven by the Omicron variant started in January and peaked in early February, however, the fast decline mid-February onward has no minor effects as the activities started in caution but then continued and compensated. The Israeli escalation in August triggered directing the satellite PFA teams to reach the targeted communities especially the most affected, the poorest, and most marginalized people, providing PFA services, detecting and referring people in need of specialized Mental Health services to the mobile clinics, community centers and other service providers.
