Welcome to the Summit Institute
The Summit Institute was established in 1973 and has worked to promote and rehabilitate mentally ill young adults through unique and groundbreaking programs ever since. Summit offers personalized psychosocial rehabilitation programs using groundbreaking treatment methods.
For the last 15 years, the Summit Institute has also been responsible for foster care in Israel’s Jerusalem and Southern regions, helping hundreds of at-risk children who are no longer able to live at home, whether due to the parents’ choice or a court order. Our foster care services include a network of thirteen emergency shelter foster families who serve as an immediate solution in times of crisis. Summit also identifies and trains new foster families so that they are able to provide warm and welcoming homes for children around the country.
Additionally, Summit operates the Mahut Therapy & Guidance Center for the parents of adolescents in Jerusalem
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Foster care with Summit
A foster family provides a warm home and a welcoming temporary solution for at-risk children who can no longer live with their biological parents, whether due to the parents’ choice or a court order. Foster families play a vital role in children’s physical, emotional, and educational development. Foster care ends when the child turns 18, is transferred to an alternative housing situation, returns to the biological parents, or is adopted.
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Summit in the media
Orian Levy, a graduate of foster care, shares his personal story, in the Family Day project of "Israel Hayom" "I have two families, for all intents and purposes" - the foster family...
Orian Levy, a foster care graduate, shares the man's story in the Family Day project in Israel Hayom
Mira Varker, director of family recruitment at the Summit Institute, was a guest of Ofira and Berkovich in Pina hit the expert, and explained what foster care is, how to join us, what are the meanings of...
Staying with Ofira and Berkovich - what does it mean to be a foster family?
Although they have 11 children in their home, Chaya and Aharon from Ashdod decided to open their hearts and their home for Osnat, a foster child with special needs, and now they...
"We won a sweet girl": the family from Ashdod who brought a girl with special needs into their home
Six babies and children from ultra-Orthodox families, who were removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect, need foster families. These are children between the ages of one and four. For the full article on the website in "Rooms"...
Urgent appeal: six babies and children are in immediate need of foster families
An emergency foster family is a family that takes in children aged 0-6 who are removed from their home by court order, due to an immediate risk to their physical safety or mental well-being, after...
To be there for a child who now needs a family and love
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Pyschosocial Rehabilitation
The Summit Institute’s therapeutic treatment and rehabilitative programs offer a wide range of services to mentally ill young adults struggling to function and in need of high-quality psychosocial rehabilitative treatment. Summit provides personalized psychological counseling, social activities, vocational support, and psychiatric treatment. Our programs guide participants to create healthy, independent lives.
Rehabilitative Services at Summit Include:
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Adolescents with Mahut
Parents of teenage children are invited to contact us in order to provide support, advice and treatment to parents, teenagers and the entire family as a response to this complex period.
The center is managed and operated by the Summit Institute, and works in cooperation with the Adolescent Care Unit of the Jerusalem Municipality
The Mahut Center focuses on improving the parent-adolescent relationship, improving parental functioning and supporting crisis situations, all with the goal of strengthening the family and improving the condition and functioning of the adolescent.
The professional staff
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Executive Director of the Summit Institute
- 4 HaSadna Street, Jerusalem
Manager of finances, administration and accessibility
- 4 HaSadna Street, Jerusalem
Director of Foster Care Services
- 4 HaSadna Street, Jerusalem
Therapeutic Rehabilitation Coordinator Chief Psychologist
- 4 HaSadna Street, Jerusalem
Director of resource mobilization and external relations
- 4 HaSadna Street, Jerusalem
Director of Resource Development and Public Relations
- Beit Hillel Building, 4 Rambam Street PO Box 6453, Beer Sheva
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