Visit to Gesher Clinic in Tel Aviv


Katrin from the Our Lady Woman of Valor Pastoral Center in Tel Aviv reports on a visit of the Center’s team to the Gesher Clinic on Sunday, July 5, 2015.

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On Sunday, the team of ‘Our Lady Woman of Valor’ had a network meeting with representatives of the Gesher Clinic in Tel Aviv - a mental health clinic of the Israeli Ministry of Health. The WOV team met with Ido Lurie (psychiatrist and head of the clinic) and Shlomit Ben-Shmuel (social worker and co-director) to inform themselves about the clinic’s services and share their experiences on some specific issues that the migrant worker and asylum seeker communities are facing. Following the meeting, the WOV team had a brief introduction to the team at Gesher Clinic where psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social workers and translators give a vast range of free and confidential services to those who do not have access to health insurance (or whose health insurance does not cover mental health treatment).

At the end of the meeting, both the WOV team and the team at Gesher Clinic agreed to follow up on this first introductory meeting with a workshop session on mental health in the near future.

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