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The Maatefet Girls program is a therapeutic program that places the girl and her family at the center of the intervention, with the aim of helping the girl and her family cope with life's challenges.

Target audience – girls aged 13-18 who are at risk, facing many difficulties in various areas of life and in need of intensive support to change their reality.

Each girl is given a “personalized tailored suit” as a creative and unique response to her and her family. The program is run in full cooperation with the family and the treatment team, which includes social services, education, and other agencies. The program takes place in the girl's home and sets desired outcomes and ways to achieve them. It tailors its responses to the girls and their families with sensitivity and creativity.

The Warm Home provides therapeutic, group, and individual enrichment and social services for girls, operating twice a week from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Ganei Aviv.

The content of the various activities is very diverse and deals with, among other things, the characteristics of adolescence, gender, relationships, sexuality, friendship, violence, and more. In addition, the girls receive a hot lunch at the house and enjoy a variety of workshops, clubs, and enrichment activities.

Target audience: girls aged 13-17.

Marhav HaLev is intended for young women aged 15 to 25 who are defined as being at risk. The center operates in a villa in the Benei Beitcha neighborhood of the city and is open every day in the afternoon and evening. At the Center, young women can receive a hot meal, shower, laundry service, a pleasant place to stay, various workshops, and conversations with professionals and volunteers.

The center's goals are to be a welcoming, protective, and enabling place for young women. To be a support system for them that they cannot find elsewhere. The center provides young women with interpersonal connections and assistance in dealing with bureaucratic institutions.

Target audience: Young women aged 15-25 from the city of Lod who are unmarried and at high risk.

Contact information: Marhav HaLev: 052-4470734

Street Mobile Units operated by Elem provide immediate responses in the field to adolescents in situations of risk, distress, and disconnection: The “Elem Street Address” team meets with young people on the street and establishes contact with them, with the aim of providing them with access to appropriate services and treatment, in order to return them to a normal, supportive life.

The “Elem Street Address” mobile units serve as a base for personal encounters with young people. The units feature an intimate seating area, hot drinks, light refreshments, a telephone, information sheets, and more. The mobile unit team consists of professionals and volunteers who provide assistance to young people in a warm and open encounter.

A club for children aged 11-14 who need emotional and social support in the afternoons. The program operates in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood three times a week. The program includes a team of social workers, counselors, and volunteers. The club provides emotional, social, and physical support. At the club, children receive a hot meal, workshops, enrichment activities, and emotional support.

The Center is located in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood at 6 Halali Agadir Street, Lod, and serves as a warm home for teenagers. The Youth Center is not part of the welfare programs and is accessible directly, without going through the department's employees. Every teenager who joins the program will be accompanied by a professional team and will have a personalized program created for them. The Center's activities include: a computer room, sports clubs, learning centers, hot meals, trips and workshops, building ongoing relationships with schools, fun days, and more.

The Youth Center is open five days a week from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Target audience: Boys aged 6–15 who need afternoon care and are able to integrate into a group. The integration of boys must be done with the knowledge and consent of their parents.

How to contact us: Youth Center director by phone: 052-6871754

The Yated Program, the national program for the advancement of at-risk youth, aims to help young people realize their rights, meet their needs, develop personally, and integrate appropriately into society and the community, while achieving a secure future on a personal, family, and employment level.

The program will work to promote young people in four key areas: education, employment and skills, physical well-being, health and safety, emotional well-being and welfare, and family and social belonging.

The program operates through four components of intervention: a basket of responses at the youth level, professional accompaniment for the youth, and a professional framework.

“Space for Promoting Employment” is a program for young people who have not been in work or education in recent years, with the aim of accompanying each young man and woman in a personal process of finding a job that suits them, building a plan for the future, mapping employment tendencies, and providing tools for perseverance and optimal integration into work.

The program is designed for single young people aged 18-25 who lack professional skills and have difficulty integrating into education and training.

The “For Me” program is designed for young men and women at risk, aged 18-27, who need guidance and support, while strengthening and realizing their potential and integrating them into society, within the framework of the Lod Youth Center. The social worker accompanies the young person in the areas of education and employment, as well as social involvement and work in the family context.

The Nitzotz program is designed to prepare and accompany soldiers at risk for meaningful service and optimal integration into society.

The program offers a tailored and comprehensive response to young people from the pre-service stage to the range of needs and challenges in civilian life and military service (such as housing, education, exercising rights, relations with commanders, service conditions, and more).

As part of the program, young candidates are identified, and a personalized, multi-system plan is developed for soldiers at risk, while providing support to the young person and their family. The program also involves cooperation with IDF commanders and contact with the staff accompanying the soldier.

The Maatefet Program is a therapeutic program that places the young person's family at the center of the intervention, with the aim of enabling young people at the end of the risk continuum to achieve age-appropriate goals in four areas of life: employment, education and skills, welfare and emotional health, housing security, and belonging to a family and community.

Target audience: Young people aged 18-25 who are at risk, facing many difficulties in various areas of life, and in need of intensive support to change their reality.

The program is operated in full cooperation with the family and the treatment team.

The program sets desired outcomes and the means to achieve them. It tailors its responses to young people and their families.

Each young person is given a “personalized tailored suit” as a creative and unique response to the family.