Al-Majd

Enhancing the psychosocial and mental health of Palestinian children, adolescents and their families in Jenin- northern West Bank.

al-Baquar

This interdisciplinary initiative focuses on parent education programs for Bedouin mothers in the Negev, Israel.

The Regional Council for the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Negev – RCUV

A grassroots organization for the 46 Bedouin Unrecognized Villages in the Negev, Israel. We fund emotional support and community resilience for women’s groups.

ANAR

This group is implementing a project to help enhance community-based protection mechanisms and psychosocial well-being for children, and teenagers affected by political violence in communities, including refugee camps in the West Bank.  They have begun providing sessions and capacity-building skills to selected organizations to help them address the growing need for psychosocial support.

Caira Organization for Community Development

Caira Organization for Community Development is a youth-led organization. The project’s primary goal is to promote healthier lifestyles in the refugee camps of Jenin and Al-Jalazone through two main interventions. First, increasing physical activity by encouraging rooftop gardening. Households will engage in planting, maintaining, and harvesting crops on their rooftops, providing both exercise and purpose for the
unemployed. Second, improving health awareness by holding monthly workshops on critical health issues such as diabetes, hypertension, women’s health, personal hygiene, and food safety. Most of the participants will be women.

Diabetes Palestine Hebron

The project aims to address the issue of inadequate public awareness and support for individuals with Type 1 diabetes in Palestinian communities in the Southern part of the West Bank (Hebron Governorate). Its goal is to bridge socioeconomic disparities that hinder access to vital information and resources for managing this chronic condition. The Chronic Disease Self-Management Model, developed at Stanford, is used to implement the project. The majority of participants are women.

Elifelet

Elifelet supports status-less children and their families, primarily from asylum-seeking Eritrean and Sudanese backgrounds, as well as children of migrant workers born in Israel. This initiative aims to provide pre/early adolescents with the following activities:

• Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) – for adolescent girls.
• Safe Circle Conversations for grades 7-8 conducted separately for boys and girls, offering regular, supportive spaces to discuss emotional and personal issues.
• “Big Sisters” – Female mentors from African communities will guide at-risk adolescent girls in small groups, enhancing their self-worth, fostering community
  connections, and providing positive role models.

The Family Defense Society (FDS)

FDS is a Palestinian women’s non-profit and non-governmental organization founded in 1994 by a group of women. The FDS aspires to provide protection to different family members almost exclusively female who face psychological, sexual, and physical abuse. The project is aiming at building a preventive program to reduce the symptoms of psychological stress for all segments of society, specifically in marginalized and affected areas. It includes holding a trainer preparation course for (15) university graduates who work in marginalized areas (Palestinian camps and the old city) / Nablus Governorate, West Bank.

Mother Tongue שפת אם لغة ام

Mother Tongue is a pioneering program targeting Jewish and Arab women and providing guidance and support throughout pregnancy, delivery and the immediate postpartum period. The program’s pilot year took place in Wadi Ara and this year we intend to grow and support women in the Carmel Coastal Region as well. Both regions are home to Jews & Arabs and women in both target regions face inequalities in access to healthcare and support services during pregnancy and childbirth (socioeconomic and informational barriers, geographical impediments, resource constraints in a peripheral and underserved area).

THE PALESTINIAN CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION (PCDCR)

This organization works to enhance the levels of reproductive and psychological health for women in the northern Jordan Valley, West Bank.

The Palestinian Consultative Staff for Developing NGOs (PCS)

PCS will implement the “Building Health Resilience Comprehensive Community Support for Marginalized Populations in Western Jenin”. The initiative aims to reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases for Palestinian women, such as obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes, in the Western Jenin region, West Bank and neighboring villages. The program will utilize the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) that has been implemented with thousands of Palestinians in another Healing Across the Divides funded initiatives.

Palestine Sports for Life, Ramallah 2022

Improving nutrition and fitness for school age adolescent girls and their mothers living in refugee camps in the West Bank.

The School for Peace (SFP) at Neve Shalom – Wahat al-Salam

SFP was established in 1979 as the first educational institution in Israel dedicated to promoting broad-scale change towards peace and just relations. Shared Wellbeing seeks to enhance MHPs’ capacity in binational settings. Main Objectives:

• Build a Network of Conflict-Aware Mental Health Professionals
  (MHPs)
• Formalize Training and Handbook (second year)
• Institutionalize Training (third year): Build a coalition supporting the integration of the training into academic programs and institutional settings to promote systemic change.

Tomorrow’s Youth

The objective of this project is to transform social norms about prevalent issues faced by women in the Nablus region, West Bank. The primary focus will be on gender-based violence (GBV), followed by women’s right to education, prevention of early marriage, and their rights within marriage.

Yes Theater

Work on drama therapy in the South Hebron Hills, a flashpoint of settler attacks. The vast majority of the participants are women and teenage girls.

2004 – 2019

• The Kayan Feminist OrganizationKayan helps further women’s rights and improve their health through leadership training programs in northern Israel, empowering hundreds of Arab women in dozens of communities to challenge the gender-based discrimination they face and better understand their gender-specific health needs.
• Al-Maqdese “Unplugged”: Drug Abuse Prevention for Palestinian YouthProfessor Rawson identified an Arabic speaking professional expert in Unplugged to provide training to Al-Maqdese staff, the police department and Directorate of Education. Because of travel restrictions, Dr. Nael Hassan, an Egyptian psychiatrist living in Abu Dhabi provided the 12 training sessions by Skype. one of the main challenges (and benefits) of the program is that participating schools are located in the Al-Ram area of Jerusalem. This area is a grey zone, meaning it is not under the control of either the Palestinian or Israeli authorities, thus it is virtually lawless with a large population and widespread presence of drugs and weapons.
• Caritas Chronic Disease ProgramCaritas Chronic Disease Program exponentially increases the impact of community-based chronic self-management in the Palestinian towns of Kufr Malik, Deir Abu Mash’ai, Abboud, and Shaqba in the West Bank.
• Mesila: Empowerment and Family Planning for Women in the Asylum Seeking Community This is a jointly funded effort with United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and it began in the fall of 2016. This project focuses on women of the asylum seeker community and will include a network of women from the community who, after intensive training, will become the primary resource for women on family planning and women’s rights. Mesila is also working to have women’s organizations in Israel make their services available to the refugee community.

• The Israeli Association of Community Centers (2012 – 2015 Grantee) The Israel Association of Community Centers in Israel promotes women’s health in the ultra-orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof by raising awareness about women’s health needs on a community-wide level and cooperating with local religious authorities to change attitudes about women’s health.

• Friends by Nature (2012 – 2014 Grantee) Friends by Nature is helping to empower Israeli Ethiopian women to play active roles in promoting women’s and family health issues in their families and communities, along with battling new challenges facing Ethiopians in Israel such as obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure by reconnecting families to traditional Ethiopian foods and active lifestyles.

• Yasmin Al-Nagab (2012 – 2015 Grantee) Yasmin Al-Nagab for the Health of Women and Family is a community-based grassroots organization founded by a group of Bedouin Arab women with backgrounds in medicine, law, education, and social welfare to enhance the health of the rural Bedouin women of Al-Nagab ‎‎(the Negev) desert in southern Israel.

• Head to Toe: A Joint Project of Arab and Jewish Women with Disabilities (2012 – 2015 Grantee) Many disabled young women—especially those in Israel’s Arab and orthodox-Jewish sectors—are not given the tools to properly care for their health. Head to Toe supports such women by empowering them to take greater responsibility for their bodies despite their disabilities.

• Hiyot (Amharic for “Life”) (2012 – 2014 Grantee) Hiyot helps Ethiopian-Israeli teenage girls become agents of change in their communities and among their peers and families in order to spread knowledge and legitimize discussion of sexual health issues generally considered off-limits in traditional Ethiopian society.

• The Rahat Women’s Association (2012 – 2014 Grantee) A women-supporting-women non-profit serving the largest Bedouin community in Israel and the world, the Rahat Women’s Association empowers Bedouin women in Israel’s Negev to take charge of their lives, become productive members of society, and build a future for themselves that they would once have deemed impossible.

• The Ne’eman Association for the Prevention of Strokes and the Support of Stroke Victims (2015 Grantee) Ne’eman was founded by a group of stroke victims to provide support other stroke victims and their families while promoting prevention and intervention programs for the larger population.

• Hadassah Optimal (2012 – 2015 Grantee) Improving the health of young women and their families in northern Israel though the training of Mother and Child Health Clinic nurses (“Tipat Halav”) in the importance of proper nutrition and regular physical activity.

• Dar Al-Kalima and the “Fit for Life” Program (2012 – 2015 Grantee) Bethlehem based-Dar Al-Kalima works to promote individual and community health in response to specific community needs through the establishment of service facilities and programs that allow individuals to take proactive roles in maintaining their well-being.
• One in Nine (2012 – 2015 Grantee) One in Nine works to raise awareness for early detection of breast cancer amongst Israel’s disadvantaged communities and orthodox Jewish sector in particular, while providing support to those who have been diagnosed with the illness.
• The Women’s Studies Center (2012 – 2013 Grantee) The Women’s Studies Center is a Jerusalem-based human rights organization working to transform prevailing social attitudes towards women in Palestinian society and provide psychological support to women in need.
• Medical Wadji (2022 Grantee) Joint Israeli Jewish – Palestinian intervention in Israel for young mothers and their babies. Intervention measuring improved nutrition, well being and communication between the two groups.
• Kavlaoved (Israeli) and Cnaaniat (Palestinian) (2022 Grantee) A joint effort between an Israeli and a Palestinian community group to improve the occupational health of Palestinian workers crossing the border form the Palestinian Territories to work in Israel.
• Kuchinate – Improved Resilience and Economic Support for  African Refugee Asylum Seekers, Tel Aviv, Israel– 2020 African asylum-seeking women endured torture and other traumas en-route to Israel; and in Israel, they are highly susceptible to homelessness, poverty discrimination and domestic abuse.  They suffer from a wide range of trauma-related mental health difficulties.  Kuchinate is a resilience-based community that was founded in order to offer vital support and empowerment to women asylum seekers through a unique project which combines income generation with psychosocial support.