Mental health services for workers launched in Ad Dulayl Industrial Park
6 December 2022
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Under the auspices of the Ministry of Health (MoH), Better Work Jordan, in partnership with the General Trade Union of Workers in Textile, Garment and Clothing Industries (JTGCU), has launched mental health services for garment workers at the JTGCU office in Ad Dulayl Industrial Park.
Inaugurated by Director of the Disabilities and Mental Health Directorate at the MoH, Dr. Malak Al Ouri, the clinic serves Jordanian and migrant workers in the garment industry.
The first-of-its-kind facility, established under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with JTGCU, provides free-of-charge mental health services, treating conditions such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, trauma, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and interpersonal conflicts.
“By addressing mental health issues and creating healthy work environments for all workers in the sector, Better Work Jordan and the JTGCU demonstrate their commitment to improving workplace mental health,” said Al Ouri at the opening ceremony, attended by representatives of the Jordan Garments and Textiles Exporters’ Association (JGATE) and garment factory managers.
A psychiatrist and a social worker offer these mental health services, providing every client with a treatment plan, designed to help improve lives, mitigate suicide risk factors, and enable mental health recovery.
Better Work Jordan furnished and equipped the facility with support from four garment factories.
The clinic is part of Better Work Jordan Mental Health Project, launched in 2021 to help improve mental health of workers in the garment sector.
The project is mainly centred on women and migrant workers as they form the majority of the workforce in the sector and face many psychical and psychological stressors. It focuses on building workers’ resilience against mental health risks, including through help-seeking, and on enhancing access to factory-level support and referral to specialised organisations.
The project takes two main approaches to achieve its objective of improving workers' mental wellbeing: (1) raising mental health awareness at organisational and individual levels; (2) devising and implementing a mental health policy on factory capacity building to develop a system that identifies, manages and refers mental health cases.
Inaugurated by Director of the Disabilities and Mental Health Directorate at the MoH, Dr. Malak Al Ouri, the clinic serves Jordanian and migrant workers in the garment industry.
The first-of-its-kind facility, established under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with JTGCU, provides free-of-charge mental health services, treating conditions such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, trauma, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and interpersonal conflicts.
“By addressing mental health issues and creating healthy work environments for all workers in the sector, Better Work Jordan and the JTGCU demonstrate their commitment to improving workplace mental health,” said Al Ouri at the opening ceremony, attended by representatives of the Jordan Garments and Textiles Exporters’ Association (JGATE) and garment factory managers.
A psychiatrist and a social worker offer these mental health services, providing every client with a treatment plan, designed to help improve lives, mitigate suicide risk factors, and enable mental health recovery.
Better Work Jordan furnished and equipped the facility with support from four garment factories.
The clinic is part of Better Work Jordan Mental Health Project, launched in 2021 to help improve mental health of workers in the garment sector.
The project is mainly centred on women and migrant workers as they form the majority of the workforce in the sector and face many psychical and psychological stressors. It focuses on building workers’ resilience against mental health risks, including through help-seeking, and on enhancing access to factory-level support and referral to specialised organisations.
The project takes two main approaches to achieve its objective of improving workers' mental wellbeing: (1) raising mental health awareness at organisational and individual levels; (2) devising and implementing a mental health policy on factory capacity building to develop a system that identifies, manages and refers mental health cases.