Ronen Ben-Avraham, director of the Adraba Center of the Conservative Movement (known in Israel as the Masorti Movement), says: “The Neta’im program for the integration of children and youth with disabilities into the [Conservative Movement’s] Noam Zionist youth movement, is about Children and teenagers with IDD are integrated into several branches of Noam, such as Hod Hasharon, Kfar Sava-Raanana, Nahariya-Shorashim, Be’er Sheva-Omer, Haifa and Carmiel. Some 300 people — counselors, ...
People with IDD are entitled to lead full, rich lives in their communities and enjoy everything that the world around them offers, including culture, architecture, health services, and social services. The academic world is one of the most important places where professionals, therapists, government officials and policy-makers of the future are trained in a wide variety of subjects. In accordance with this outlook, the Foundation has funded several university courses ...
Meet charming ten year old Eti from Holon; she loves to play with puzzles and to hear music. Her favorite food is pasta and she wants to become a police officer when she grows up.
Twenty social workers who serve as directors and coordinators of services for individuals with intellectual and development disabilities (IDD) went to the United Kingdom for a study tour in June. The social workers, who are employed at the social welfare and social services departments of local and regional authorities, went on the tour with representatives of the Shalem Foundation, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services and the Federation ...
This past June a special day-long conference was held for the first time to present research studies supported by the Shalem Foundation. The one-day conference — the Foundation’s first in the field of research — was held at the Sheatufim Center in Beit Yehoshua. It showcased selected research studies that the Foundation has supported and that were completed in 2015. The conference was attended by dozens of professionals, members of ...
Feeding people with IDD is one of the most difficult tasks in the role of direct caregivers in frameworks for nursing cases and is also one of the most important interactions between the caregiving staff and the care recipients in such frameworks. A brainstorming session on feeding people with IDD was held on July 14 at the Beit Doron center in Ramat Gan. This session was part of the process ...
A state-of-the-art training kitchen, the first of its kind in Israel, has been established at the Taf Lataf School for children with special needs, which is partially funded by the Shalem Foundation. The purpose of the training kitchen is to enable the pupils to gain experience in working – with guidance and supervision – in a kitchen to prepare them for independent life as adults, provide them with training for ...
Approximately three years ago, the Shalem Foundation set up a special way to provide assistance, among its other activities: by supporting community projects on the periphery and in the regional councils. The goal of this track is to support social activities that integrate people with developmental intellectual disabilities, who live in their parents’ homes, in community life. Anchor for Life — Sea Scouts is an educational maritime program that is ...
This research is supported by a grant from the Shalem Foundation In this study, we followed the development of preterm born infants and a comparison group of full-terms during the first year of life. The first aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of developmental delay (DD) among preterm infants and to identify perinatal risk factors associated with DD. An additional aim was to identify early ...
This research was supported by a grant from Shalem Fund Participation in social networking sites has considerable potential for persons with an intellectual disability (ID) in terms of creating communication channels, maintaining social relationships, developing new relationships, improving interpersonal communication skills, getting updated information and spending their leisure time. These opportunities can contribute to the quality of life of persons with ID. To date, research in social media has not included ...