Children's Home

The Children's Home at the Abu Gosh campus offers a secure and stable home environment, therapeutic treatment and special education to over 85 boys and girls, ages 7 to 14. They come from all sectors of Israeli society, referred for residential care through Israel's Ministry of Welfare.

At-high-risk Children

The boys and girls at the Children's Home are all at-high-risk children whose family background is often marked by violence, drug or alcohol abuse or mental illness. These children are often victims of emotional and physical abuse, neglect, rejection, or desertion. They have learned from an early age to hide their fear and despair behind a barrier of rage and distrust, often accompanied by aggressive and destructive behavior. Some children were placed in other frameworks before coming to the Home, such as children's emergency shelters, foster care or children's psychiatric wards.

Love, stability, and a highly effective treatment program

The Children's Home is open 365 days a year, with a large and dedicated staff of childcare professionals who devote themselves to healing the psychological scars and repairing the lives of these children and adolescents. On a nearly one-to-one basis, the staff creates for each child a milieu that provides constancy, consistency and warm personal relationships. A relationship of trust and emotional closeness is nurtured over time, developing out of a deep personal acquaintance with each child. The Children's Home provides on premises full residence, a school of special education and a network of therapeutic-rehabilitative treatment programs that include individual psychotherapy/play therapy, offering additionally music therapy, art therapy, pet therapy and occupational therapy, to meet the unique needs of each child. It is the aim of our unique therapeutic program to rehabilitate the children and mainstream them back to their families and normative community frameworks. The children's parents are an integrative part of the personal treatment program for each child and are an inseparable part of the therapeutic concept.

Emergency program

Each year, by special request of the Welfare Ministry's Child and Youth Services, the Children's Home absorbs at least two highly at-risk children who have been removed from their families by court order in mid-year. They are temporarily placed in one of our residential treatment units and gently assimilated into our treatment-study program.