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State Welfare Organization of Iran
Charitable social work agency overview
Annual budget13000 billion toman[1]

The State Welfare Organization of Iran, also known as the Behzisti Organization, is a working organization under the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare. Established after the 1979 revolution, the organization mainly works towards the betterment, rehabilitation, and improvement of the lives of disabled people, people in need of care, and orphaned children. It supervises and runs special needs education, addiction treatments (except article 16 centers[2]) and offers suicide awareness events.[3]

National counseling telephone hotline callcenter

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1480 telephone number offers educational and schoolkid, psychological, addiction rehabilitation, marriage ,stress and fear, children and family counseling. It receives around two millio calls a year.[4] [5]

History

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Until 2003, formerly it was under the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education.[6][7][8][9]

Since 2021, people covered by the organization are exempt from energy bills.[10]

Since 2022, the organization began developing housing projects.[11]

In 2021-2023, Iranian Etemad reported child physical torture in a Behzisti center; two administrators were subsequently arrested.[12][13][14][15] Sharq reported the cover-up of deaths of disabled people in agency centers.[16]

Programs

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In "peace" program people put requests for counseling experts to be sent to at places/family or friends gatherings.[17]


Seven and a half million people use the organization's programs.[18]

The organization keeps a database of old people and retirement homes.[19]

This organization operates a social work national emergency hotline.[20]

The organization offers monthly salary and health care insurance to the around 760,000 people in need and those having disabilities.[21]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ https://dolat.ir/detail/404399
  2. ^ "مسئولیت کمپ‌های ماده 16 از بهزیستی گرفته خواهد شد- اخبار تهران - اخبار اجتماعی تسنیم | Tasnim". خبرگزاری تسنیم | Tasnim.
  3. ^ "ورود فرزندان بهزیستی به خانواده‌ها آسان می‌شود/۳۸ هزار خانواده متقاضی فرزندخواندگی". www.irna.ir. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  4. ^ https://www.irna.ir/amp/85100025/
  5. ^ https://www.imna.ir/news/572940/%D8%AE%D8%B7%DB%B1%DB%B4%DB%B8%DB%B0-%DB%8C%D8%A7-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1-%DA%86%D9%87-%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%87-%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%AF
  6. ^ "Introduction of State Welfare Organization of Iran". en.behzisti.ir. February 9, 2020.
  7. ^ https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Disability/DisabilityInclusivePolicies/NHRI/IranHumanRightsCommission.docx
  8. ^ https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:570726/FULLTEXT02.pdf
  9. ^ Rasi, Hamideh Addelyan; Moula, Alireza; Puddephatt, Antony J.; Timpka, Toomas (2013). "Empowering Single Mothers in Iran: Applying a Problem-Solving Model in Learning Groups to Develop Participants' Capacity to Improve Their Lives". The British Journal of Social Work. 43 (5): 833–852. JSTOR 23723018 – via JSTOR.
  10. ^ "مددجويان بهزيستي براي بهره‌مندي از آب، برق و گاز رايگان يك هفته فرصت ثبت نام دارند". رویداد ایران.
  11. ^ "افزايش ۶۵ درصدي بودجه سازمان بهزيستي". dolat.ir. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  12. ^ "آخرین خبر از موسسه مهرماندگار؛ انتقال کودک سوزانده شده به مرکز جدید و صدور قرار بازداشت برای دو نفر". اعتمادآنلاین (in Persian). 2023-06-28. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  13. ^ [etemadonline.com/بخش-اجتماعی-23/617031-کودک-آزاری-شب-ادراری-کودکان-تنبیه-اتو "گزارش روزنامه اعتماد از کودک‌آزاری در یک مرکز نگهداری کودکان؛ سوزاندن دست‌وپای کودک با اتو به خاطر شب‌ادراری!"]. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help)
  14. ^ ""آزار کودکان» در یک مرکز نگهداری بهزیستی در تهران: «سوزاندن با اتو به دلیل شب ادراری"". BBC News فارسی (in Persian). 2023-06-11. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  15. ^ فردا, رادیو (2023-06-11). "انتشار گزارشی از شکنجه‌های جسمی کودکان در مرکزی با مربیان «طلبه»". رادیو فردا (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  16. ^ "لاپوشانی سازمان بهزیستی از تخلفات گسترده در مراکز نگهداری از معلولان". شرق (in Persian). 2023-06-28. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  17. ^ https://sahebkhabar.ir/news/62019657/%D8%B3%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B1-%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B4-%D8%B7%D8%B1%D8%AD%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AD%D8%B6%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C-%D9%88-%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87
  18. ^ "هفت میلیون و ۳۰۰ هزار نفر از خدمات بهزیستی بهره‌مند هستند". www.irna.ir. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  19. ^ "بانک اطلاعاتی سالمندان تهیه و تدوین شود". www.irna.ir. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  20. ^ "سایت اورژانس اجتماعی | معرفی". November 18, 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-11-18.
  21. ^ "خدمات بیمه‌ای مددجویان واجد شرایط بهزیستی برای یکسال دیگر تمدید شد". www.irna.ir. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
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