Haruv annual report 2020

Prof. Asher Ben-Arieh

I’m pleased and proud to present our annual report for Haruv Institute activities in 2020. What a year!

It began with great momentum in Israel and abroad, which seemed for a moment would come to a halt due to the pandemic, but despite Coronavirus and its restrictions, we are closing the year with a tremendous sense of pride. The institute has prospered, strengthening its position as a leading body in Israel and worldwide for promoting knowledge and training professionals in the field of child maltreatment. This report tells an amazing story. Of our success in the Corona year, of continuously leading new initiatives, overcoming physical and virtual limitations, increasing our target audiences – all without compromise. The numbers and data before you tell the story simply. In 2020 the institute increased its level of activity from previous years. By the year’s end, we found we had held more programs and trainings, and reached a wider public than planned; not only within our projected budget, but at only 85% of it. Our swift adaptation to Zoom training, developing curricula and new trainings, and using virtual platforms to overcome distance and physical borders – these were the source of our success this year. I would like to highlight the development of “Haruv on the Air” programs. We began as early as March 2020 with the “Haruv from the Couch” initiative, a series of Zoom lectures for professionals. The initiative expanded quickly in both Israel and Haruv-USA in Tulsa, and many thousands of professionals enjoyed it and gained important knowledge. Within several weeks we had developed the complementary initiatives of “Haruv Together”, more extended workshops for a limited number of participants, and “Continuous Haruv”, virtual courses for professionals. Here too we reached thousands of participants in activities in Hebrew, Arabic and English. “Haruv on the Air” crossed borders and provided opportunity for participants from Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority, as well as many other countries (Australia, Europe, the Middle East and North America). These activities developed professionally to become so successful, that they grew to be a central and continuous part of the institute activity, and shall remain with us in the future. Adjustment to partial virtual activity enabled us to strengthen our synergy with Haruv-USA, and offer varied lectures and advanced trainings in English. But we did so much more than virtual activities this past year. We continued to hold frontal activities and hybrid trainings, both physically and virtually (subject to Corona guidelines and excluding

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