קטגוריה: אנגלית

An opening event on the subject of The Accessibility of Aging was held at Elwyn’s Weinberg Center on the evening of Wednesday, 20 December 2017.  Fifty people participated in the event: Center retirees and their families; Riva Muskal, Shalem Foundation director; supervisors from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services; social workers from the

Social worker Maayan Benishti writes   “On Wednesday, 10 January 2018, a special, traditional event, part of the Social Affair Department’s extensive yearly activity, was held in the Regional Council Sedot Negev to augment special-needs awareness. The evening, held in the Sedot Negev Cultural Center, attracted approximately 400 participants, including area residents, families of children

 In response to a tender published by The Shalem Foundation, the Municipality of Beer Sheva launched a new initiative, implemented by the Kivunim Company, for the integration and inclusion of people with intellectual developmental disabilities in neighborhood sports’ events The Division of Services for Persons with Development Disabilities in the Ministry of Social Welfare and

 Shimon Dahan is a young man of 26 from Beit She’an with Down’s Syndrome. He studies in “The Institute for Life Studies for People with Special Needs” in the Jordan Valley. There, he is known as “Shimon the King,” the undisputed leader of a clique of students. But Shimon wants to succeed in “regular society,”

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

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,

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 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

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