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The Parent-Child Center provides integrated treatment for families with children ages 13-5 who have emotional or behavioral issues that have developed or are feared to develop. The therapeutic work emphasizes improving relationships and parental functioning while providing parents with alternative ways of caring for and relating to their children that will help them develop normally. The Center is furnished like a home with important domestic functions: a kitchen, dining area, children's room, play area, living room, and art therapy room.

The Center serves as a “model” for families. The intervention techniques focus on improving the functional skills of parents, children, and other family members. Treatment is integrated: individual, dyadic, and group, with the option of combining them. Target audience: The program is designed for families with children aged 5-13.

The program will provide a response to children with difficulties who need emotional treatment in its various aspects. The treatment program will include a series of meetings to be determined by the admissions committee of professionals. The focus of the program is on treating the child. Parental guidance will be provided once every four meetings.

The treatments are carried out at the “Ruach Adam” Center in Lod. The child will receive treatment once a week, and parental guidance will be provided once a month.

Target audience: Children aged 6-13 with emotional or behavioral problems who suffer from unmet needs and whose normal development is at risk, and who are not receiving treatment in any other program. “Pathways to Parenting,”

“Primary Program,” “Children and Parents” Center.

A home club is a complementary educational-therapeutic framework after kindergarten hours for children aged 3-6.

The goal of the clubs is to promote the emotional, behavioral, educational, and social well-being of the child and to improve the relationship between the child and his or her parents while strengthening parental functioning. The clubs operate in the club coordinator's home in a warm setting of up to 5 children per club and provide for all the children's needs until the evening hours.

Target audience - The clubs are suitable for children aged 3-6 who live with their families and whose parents have difficulty providing for their various needs.

The after-school club is a complimentary educational-therapeutic framework after school hours for children in grades 1-4.

The goal of the after-school clubs is to promote the child's emotional, behavioral, educational, and social well-being and to improve the relationship between the child and his or her parents while strengthening parental functioning.

The clubs offer a variety of social and enrichment activities, sports, homework help, cultivation of learning habits, habits of order and cleanliness, and other basic life skills.

The clubs operate in a public building in groups of up to 15 children, immediately after school until the evening hours. The club staff includes a club coordinator, a counselor, and a social worker. The clubs operate five days a week and also provide the children with a hot meal.

Target audience - The clubs are suitable for children aged 6-10 who live with their families and whose parents have difficulty meeting their various needs.

How to apply: Applications can also be made through the school counselor.

The Meital Center is a treatment center for minors who are victims of sexual assault. The Center provides emotional care to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused, together with their parents, in order to help them cope with the abuse and its consequences.

Target audience - Children and adolescents up to the age of 18 and their parents, whether or not they have undergone criminal investigation proceedings.