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 Social Services, the Municipality of Beer Sheva’s Department of Social Services’ Rehabilitation Branch and Department ...
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,” to be a musician, to follow his calling. Shimon gets the chance to fulfill his ...
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 process, entailing a workshop for staff members, a meeting for parents, and private and group ...
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, members of whom began to identify themselves as an oppressed group, demanding changes to the ...
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 Gilon, Chairman of the Subcommittee for the Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law ...
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 feelings of independence prior to visiting the gynecologist for a standard examination. The educational material ...
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 educational software was the final project for Gal Spektor and Liat Bruchman, students in the ...
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 alternate assessment gauge, other than just eating well, in which the individual, surrounded by a ...
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 the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services- municipalities, NPOs, private organizations Receiving ...
Excerpt from the interview upon accepting the new appointment You spent many years in the field of academia and filled many positions. What is your new position I have been involved in academics for over 30 years. In my present position head the Academic Quality Assessment and Advancement section, am head of the Teacher Training Program in the Shomron’s Ariel University, and head the Forum for the Advancement of ...