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Volunteering is one of the most important levels in creating a quality and integrating society. Volunteering with people with intellectual disabilities is also socially important, and alongside the challenges it poses, it grants both sides, the contributor and the contributed, great satisfaction and excitement. Eden Aburokan, a 15-year-old girl from Haifa, volunteers with the older

The Meytal House Day Center for adults requiring full-time care under the auspices of the Shalem Foundation recently concluded the workshop, “Self-advocacy and Self-representation,” directed by Maya Goldman and emceed by Lea Davidson   The groundbreaking workshop, among the first of its kind, was held as a pilot project, assessing the prospect of continuity. The

 The occupational training center Shiluvim held its closing event for the program “See Me!” designed to increase awareness about dressing, grooming and hygiene   In Shiran Yisrael's thank-you letter to the Shalem Foundation, the workshop director wrote   "Upon completion of the moving, crowning event of the program "See Me!," I would like to thank

 As of 2017, approximately 2,800 babies and toddlers with special needs, ranging in age from six months to three years, receive rehabilitative care and enhancement in approximately 125 rehabilitation daycare center facilities throughout the country. Facilities are supervised by the Rehabilitation Department, Community Care Services, the Disabilities Administration, and are operated as franchisees chartered by

 Direct caregivers in facilities for people with disabilities assist residents in most areas of their lives, including bathing, dressing and eating. Often, the demands of the job take a toll, expressed in high levels of tension and mental overload, negatively affect the quality of service provided. The aim of this manual is to create an

Cooperation between the Holon Institute of Technology, the Shalem Foundation, and the Disabilities Administration of the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services produced interactive educational software whose goal is to impart orientation and basic primary information concerning intellectual disabilities to direct care caregivers and counselors of people with intellectual developmental disabilities                                  The

 The website “Lilach,” developed jointly by the Shalem Foundation and the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services’ Disabilities Administration, was created to explain the role of the gynecologist and how routine visits to the office are conducted. The goal of the site is to lessen feelings of pressure and fear and increase women’s

The social media site Net.Chaver, initiated and administered by Beit Noam was awarded the Commission for Equal Rights for Persons with Disbailities’ Equal Rights Prize in a ceremony that took place on 3 December 2017 at the Avenue Convention Center, in the presence of Knesset Member Ayelet Shaked, Minister of Justice, and Knesset Member llan

The new Eliya Rehabilitation Day Center opened in Beer Sheva last November in an exciting event in the presence of many guests, including Mayor Ruvik Danilovich, representatives of the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services, representatives of the Shalem Foundation and the National Insurance Institute of Israel, and many more. In 1988, the

Beit Noam scholarship recipients initiated a conference highlighting the central dilemmas they face in the course of their academic work: tension and possible models of communication between disabled and the academia. Disability Studies as a political position and academic area of interest has its roots in the disability-group movements in England and the United States,