ELEM’s High-Risk Youth Spaces
In these programs, participants build long-term relationships with professional staff and volunteers who provide consistent support grounded in trust, acceptance, and a non-judgmental approach.
The support combines emotional, social, and practical guidance with hands-on assistance on topics such as housing, employment, education, access to rights and benefits, and everyday life skills.
These community spaces help young women rebuild a sense of safety and belonging, strengthen their independence, and gradually create a more stable and hopeful future.
The programs operate in partnership with government ministries, local authorities, and philanthropic foundations, and, when needed, connect participants to additional ELEM programs and other community-based services.
Types of Programs
Lev Spaces in the Community – Lev Eilat, Lev Dimona, Alma (Lev Petah Tikva) in cooperation with local authorities and Housing First in cooperation with the Ministry of Welfare, Tel Aviv Municipality, and philanthropic foundations. These frameworks offer community support and guidance to young women who have experienced complex traumas. The model combines emotional therapy, social support, and guidance in life processes – employment, studies, housing, and creating stability. The “Housing First” model allows young people to first receive a safe and stable living space, and from there to begin a process of personal and social rehabilitation with a broad and intensive range of responses. Alma Helpline 0549773741 Lev Eilat Helpline 054-9773606
Adi Center (Empowerment, Care, Friendship) is a day center, a unique therapeutic-educational framework operating in the community and intended for girls (aged 15–17) who are at the extreme end of the risk spectrum. The center serves as an alternative to out-of-home frameworks and offers a protected environment and a holistic support system that includes individual and group emotional therapy, and educational assistance (sometimes through the HILA program). The Adi Center operates on a model that combines a “warm home” with an emphasis on gender sensitivity, with the aim of strengthening the girls’ self-image, providing them with life skills, and preventing their dropout from the community, while maintaining connection with their family and natural environment.