A unique framework for religious girls in one of the religious kibbutzim in the Beit
Shean Valley was established in 2004. The home is intended for girls who found it
difficult to adapt to a religious girls' school or a local religious high school. They
may have encountered learning difficulties, dilemmas regarding their religious identity
and their place in society, suffered from emotional problems and also from a lack of
effective communication with their parents.
The home can serve 10 girls. They can remain in the home for maximum three years. The
girls, aged 14 to 18, study at various schools in the area - a precondition for staying
in the home. They receive individual assistance, enabling them to become integrated in
regular classes.
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The aim of their residence and treatment within this framework is to improve their
functioning and quality of life in various respects and eventually to enable them to
become integrated in normative society, successfully confronting their previous
problems.
The program is funded and supervised by the Authority for the Protection of Youth
within the Ministry of Welfare.
Who are the girls?
They come from religious homes.
They have been referred by the social services, by probation officers and the Authority
for the Advancement of Youth.
They are girls at risk who dropped out of normative frameworks due to emotional,
behavioral, family-related problems and inability to adapt to any framework and its
rules.
The home is protected, i.e. it is run according to proper norms, the residents treating
each other with respect. Violent behavior, the use of drugs or anything liable to harm
the girls or the staff is not permitted.
The professional team includes experienced guides, who look after the girls from the
moment of their arrival and throughout their stay at the home. Each girl is entitled to
a weekly session with a social worker in order to process her past and current experiences,
and to medical care to meet all her needs.
To teach the girls to take responsibility and out of trust in their ability to participate
in the management of the home, the girls take turns at various tasks.
An individual program is built up for each girl, combining her wishes, her interests and
capabilities, based on the assessment and experience of the professional staff. Once in
three months there is a meeting of the staff to assess the girl's progress and how well she
is coping with her program, to which the person who referred the girl for treatment and
the girl's family are also invited.
The girl's ongoing contact with her family is important and is maintained in several
ways: by telephone, home visits during the holidays and the family's visits to Tirat Zvi.
The person in charge of the home or the social worker is in constant contact with the
family and updates them about the girl's progress. In the course of the first months of
the girl's stay at the home, the staff of the home in Tirat Zvi visit the girl's family.
The aims of the home's educational program:
- To enable the girls to absorb values that will enhance their interaction with the
environment;
- To develop the girls' independence;
- To help them exploit their strengths;
- To prepare them to live a normative and beneficial life in society.
For information about entering the home in Tirat Zvi for treatment, please
call: 972-4-6078737
You will obtain all the necessary details by 'phone.
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