The Ministry of Community Development announced, during a virtual press conference held today, the implementation of 5 programs within the "Reassure" initiative that aims to support people of determination, their families and those working in their care during the period of crises and emergencies, with the aim of ensuring that they receive psychological support to ensure they continue to learn and integrate into life activities. Daily and follow-up to the rehabilitation programs applied in their treatment with the required efficiency.

Wafa Hamad bin Sulaiman, director of the Ministry of Welfare and Rehabilitation of People of Determination confirmed that the initiative aims to educate the community about the mechanisms of an inclusive response to people of determination in light of emergency conditions, which achieve a safe and rapid response to the circumstances and changes of social reality. Bin Sulaiman stressed the importance of the training program implemented by the ministry to help mothers get rid of the pressures resulting from the isolation of their children, or as a result of caring for their children of determination throughout the time, even during normal circumstances.

The initiative consists of 5 programs, the first includes a bag that contains a set of diagnostic features that are characterized by children affected by difficult circumstances, to help parents and family members to detect them, and thus identify children who need therapeutic intervention, whether by parents or specialists, in addition to a group One of the activities and exercises that can be practiced in the child's environment to help him overcome these challenges.
As for the second program, it aims to support children with intellectual disabilities and autism in the wake of the pandemic Covid 19, through a set of social stories supporting them in emergencies and crises and during domestic isolation, where these simplified and illustrated stories fit these children in terms of explaining information to them, and guiding them to practice behaviors The preventive measures required of them, such as personal hygiene and protection against risks, during the crisis period.

The third program includes training for cadres working with families of people of determination in order to help them to inform and educate parents about the mechanisms of eliminating psychological pressures that they face during crises and during domestic isolation, in addition to enabling psychological and social cadres working with people of determination to be able to detect these behaviors Through specific standards and questions for parents.

The fourth program provides psychological support for parents, to help them alleviate the stresses and best deal with the challenges facing their children during the home quarantine, which positively reflects on the skills provided to their children at home, by raising the level of psychological hardness of parents in facing emergency conditions and enabling them to be able To provide adequate support for their children during the period of home isolation.

As for the fifth program, it includes a number of community awareness programs, aimed at people of determination and their guardians, and the community in general about emergency situations, especially the impact of the Kovid pandemic-19 on people of determination, and the means of support provided to them in times of crisis. The Ministry has started implementing the program since the beginning of the pandemic , By publishing a lot of educational and guidance information on ways to deal with people of determination and their coexistence with the pandemic.

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