Haruv Institute - Annual Report - A Snapshot 2017

STUDY AND TRAINING PROGRAMS I WELFARE AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY FIELDS

TRAUMA-INFORMED INTERVENTION PROGRAMS

Haruv offers trauma-informed intervention training to welfare and mental health organizations treating children and families. The “trauma lens” places emphasis on principles and areas of knowledge such as: · How trauma in childhood affects child development · Early childhood attachment and its relation to trauma · The impact of trauma on parenting · Professionals’ coping with children and parents who experienced trauma · Trauma-informed interventions therapy (with a focus on protectiveness, talking directly about trauma, creating a trauma narrative, psycho-educational intervention, etc.) The aim of this training is to encourage professional workers to keep in mind the child’s situation when treating families that experienced traumatic events, to involve the children in therapeutic interventions and to maintain a focus on the trauma when treating the entire family.

The Institute organized training programs for therapists in:

· emergency centers, such as Mivtach-Oz, Schusterman, Ahava and Shabtai Levi, · foster care frameworks of Orr-Shalom · the after-school child-care facilities of the “Yad Rachel” Organization · “Ha’ogen” Youth Village · out-of-home placement setttings: Neve WIZO and Shachar – Foster-Care Family Services · Tel Aviv-Jaffa Organization for Promoting Education

TRAINING THE STAFFS OF THE “A HOME FOR EVERY CHILD” NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ORGANIZATION

The “A Home For Every Child” NGO provides a solution for about 2,000 children-at-risk per year. The organization operates treatment frameworks such as emergency centers in Jerusalem and in Be’er Sheva, a transitional home and after-school therapeutic programs, and the Meital Center. Three programs – between two to six sessions each – were held for the staff of the after-school therapeutic frameworks, the staff of the Be’er Sheva EmergencyCenter, and social workers, directors, coordinators and counselors at the after-school frameworks of “A Home for Every Child.” Approximtely 120 professionals participated.

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