Sunday, June 2, 12:00 PM EDT - Zoom
Support Palestinian Mental Health with Lori Rudolph
Online Fundraiser with Palestinian Mental Health Experts
The people of Palestine are suffering from war injuries and deaths. War traumas shake the foundation of their lives, and this war's effects will undoubtedly reverberate for generations. The Palestinian People deserve to live in an environment free of fear and violence.
Learn how you can help by joining our online fundraiser for a discussion on the psychosocial impact of the war on the Palestinian people by a panel of Palestinian mental health experts and human rights defenders.
The Community Center for Training and Development (CCTD) in Bethlehem plans to expand its mental health services to meet the growing demand for psychosocial support in the region. Our targeted population includes children and youth, women, and political prisoners. CCTD started as an initiative launched by a group of women, young activists, and social workers striving towards building a just society that promotes gender equality and the empowerment of youth and children.
Currently, we are raising funds to support our psychosocial/advocacy project. This project will work with youth and their families who live in the Old City of Hebron through capacity building, advocacy training, mentoring, psychosocial support, and a youth-led summer camp that will include therapeutic recreational activities. Our expanded services and programs consider the political nature of human suffering and incorporate interventions to increase their protection, enhance their dignity, and optimize their well-being by incorporating resiliency-based and trauma-informed approache
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Lori Rudolph is a Fulbright Scholar and an associate professor of counseling at New Mexico Highlands University, she has spent extended periods of time in the West Bank as a mental health consultant and professor. She taught at two Universities, Al Quds and Bethlehem University and has lived in Dheisheh Refugee Camp where she worked with the Ibdaa Cultural Center. Sparked by the Sabra and Shatila massacre she has been actively involved since 1982, and co-founded various activist groups in Albuquerque, NM and served on Jewish Voice for Peace’s national coordinating committee for the TIAA –CREF campaign for two years.
Partial List of Endorsers: Irish Social Workers & Social Care Workers for Palestine, International Federation for Social Workers, Social Workers for a Free Palestine (UK), Aida Youth Center, Aida Refugee Camp, Shoruq, Dheisheh Refugee, Palestinian Union for Social Workers and Psychologists, Bethlehem Branch, James F. Leckman, MD, PhD, Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Yale University, Cesar Abarca, Ph.D., Dean of Facundo Valdez, School of Social Work, New Mexico Highlands University, Judith Deutsch, Ph.D., Palestine Global Mental Health Network, Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace, Cambio, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council