Haruv Institute - Annual Report - A Snapshot 2017

STUDY AND TRAINING PROGRAMS I WELFARE AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY FIELDS

TRAINING FOR SOCIAL WORKERS IN SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENTS

Families who seek help at the department of welfare frequently suffer from stressful and traumatic events that took place in the family. These include exposure to violence or extreme violence, child abuse, severe illness or sudden death in the family, divorce-related disputes, etc. Many of these families suffer ongoing trauma. The aim of the programs offered to these departments is to provide the therapists with tools when treating families and children who experienced traumatic events, in order to evaluate and process these events. Haruv cooperated with the Social Services Departments of Hof HaCarmel, Ashkelon, Ness-Ziona and Haifa, with programs for social workers which include between four and nine sessions. In these programs 144 social workers participated.

TRAINING PROGRAMS WITH MSR JERUSALEM

Haruv and MSR collaborated to train 12 professionals in the simulation-based training model at the Simulation Center, at the Haruv Children's Campus. They underwent two full training days. In addition, Haruv participated in training escorts in the Course for Escorting Crime Victims, in partnership with the Israel National Council for the Child and MSR, Jerusalem. The goal of the one session training was to train 25 law students who volunteer in the Crime Victims Escorting Project in dealing with common communication situations encountered in the course of their volunteer work.

STUDY PROGRAMS FOR THE OTOT ORGANIZATION (NGO)

The OTOT Organization provides out-of-home solutions within the community for youth-at-risk from fringe populations. It provides adolescents from a variety of population groups' treatment, education and rehabilitation, while integrating them into the surrounding community. This is the fifth year that this seminar took place. All programs this year lasted between one and seven sessions, and 76 professionals participated. This year's programs included: · Training social workers and coordinators on the trauma lens and its contribution to adolescent residential care · Training Program for Directors · Planning sessions with the hostels for on trauma-informed residential care · One-Day Seminar for social workers

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