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The Couples and Family Therapy Center provides universal service to all city residents, regardless of economic status. The center aims to address the difficulties that arise in the lives of couples and families at different stages of life. Treatment at the center is individual, couples, and family-based.

The services provided by the station are:

• Marriage counseling and therapy, assistance and therapy for parent-child relationships, improving family communication, assistance and guidance in separation and divorce proceedings, therapy for coping with loss and bereavement, therapy for single-parent families, assistance and therapy in situations of crisis and emotional distress.
• The Center's staff includes senior social workers who are trained and skilled in family and couples counseling.

Referral methods - Contact the Center's office at 089279862, 089279035, or 089279825.

Confidentiality is guaranteed.

Social workers operate in accordance with the law on legal proceedings, based on orders from family courts, rabbinical courts, and Sharia courts, to submit opinions and recommendations on issues of parenting and the welfare of minors whose parents are in the process of divorce, ensuring the welfare of wards and vulnerable individuals who need a guardian, and more. The court proceedings team is responsible for operating a contact center.

 

The Center is used for meetings between parents and children in cases where protected meetings are necessary, for the purpose of assisting in renewing, building, and maintaining parent-child relationships, and in other cases where professionals believe that supervision of meetings between parents and children is necessary.

The Center provides professional assistance to women, men, and children who are dealing with domestic violence, with an emphasis on intimate partner violence and its consequences. Domestic violence is defined as the use of physical, sexual, verbal, psychological, or economic force by one family member against another.

The services provided by the center include individual and group therapy, counseling and support services, developing emergency protection plans, providing information about rights, mediation, and referral to legal counsel and other community resources. The center also provides professional counseling to professionals. In addition, the center promotes awareness and prevention programs in the community with the aim of increasing community resilience and reducing the phenomenon of domestic violence.

The goals of the service are to stop the abuse, process the trauma, and strengthen and rehabilitate the self.

Treatment at the Center for the Prevention of Violence involves a nominal fee.

How to contact us - Telephone: 08-9279035/8

You can contact the Center independently or through referrals from various community agencies.

In emergency situations, outside of the Welfare Department's hours of operation, you can contact the 24-hour hotline at 106 or the police station.

The Center operates a sexual trauma treatment unit that provides treatment for women aged 18 and over who were abused as children or adults, either within or outside the family. Treatment at the unit is free of charge.

The Addiction Treatment Unit provides unique treatment for women, men, adolescents, and young adults who are struggling with addiction, as well as their families. The unit's goal is to support and assist in improving the quality of life and personal, family, and social functioning of patients struggling with addiction.

The unit provides treatment for all types of addiction, including substance addiction (drugs and alcohol) and behavioral addiction (gambling, screen addiction, sex addiction, and shopping addiction).

Treatment is provided to addicts who have not yet recovered, to clean addicts, and to family members of addicts.

The unit is the place to go for anyone who has any connection to the world of addiction.

The unit aims to provide specialized treatment for women, taking into account their unique needs, as well as specialized treatment for men, taking into account their different needs. In light of this, the unit operates a “METRA Project for Women” and a “METRA Project for Men (initial treatment and diagnosis center), which provides seven hours of treatment per week for each patient participating in the project: Two groups per week – a dynamic group and a topic-based group, urine tests, and individual conversations in the unit's treatment space.

The project creates a complete separation between the treatment of men and the treatment of women.

Treatment is provided through counseling, referrals for medical tests, therapeutic conversations, therapeutic groups, urine tests, social bonding activities, and unique workshops.

Treatment at the unit includes diagnosis, assessment, and the development of individual treatment plans, in cooperation with various entities: probation services, community courts, social workers in geographical teams, mental health services, and more.

The unit also provides services to released prisoners through coordinators from the Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority.

In addition, homeless people are assisted by social workers who provide rehabilitation and treatment services by helping them exercise their rights, referring them to rehabilitation institutions, and placing them in emergency and permanent facilities as needed.