The Hassib Sabbagh IT Center of Excellence at the Arab American University has held a training workshop on library mental health in cooperation with the Tamer Foundation for Community Education, in partnership with the Faculties of Business and Sports Sciences at the University. The training was provided by Ms. Alaa Fatafta.
The program targeted University students in a number of humanities, education, media, nursing and allied medical specializations, in addition to a number of civil society institutions and libraries in many governorates, in a course of 8 meetings over two months.
The workshop aims to connect library and school children through this training with associations and the Red Crescent, train them on the mechanism of dealing with mental health cases, and direct them to specialized centers.
Engineer Mays Awad, Director General of Hassib Sabbagh IT Center of Excellence, stressed the importance of this training workshop in cooperation with partner and specialized institutions and integrating University students into the field training to learn about the labor market, noting that there are many similar and specialized workshops that Hassib Sabbagh IT Center of Excellence will conduct, targeting University students. from all specializations.
