Girls in Distress Division

ELEM has initiated and developed programs for teenage girls at–risk and provides protection and therapy for those who have been abused or are alienated.

Adi Center – is an open community outpatient service, treating alienated girls, victims of violence and those demonstrating destructive behaviors. The girls come to a day center where they are involved in various activities including vocational training, development of life skills, and occupational or educational programs. The Center, located in Rehovot, opened in 2004.

Real Home is a therapeutic community-friendly address for girls and young women who are victims of incest and/or sexual assault and who need treatment. The therapy available in the community and the services focusing on this work are frequently short term and stigmatized, so many young women simply stay away.

Real Home offers a holistic solution. The young women are full partners in the therapeutic process. They come there not only for conventional treatment, but also for rest and social and enrichment activities. The girls work with professionals and female volunteers and participate in individual and group therapy, psycho-educational activity coupled with art therapy, treatment through medication based on psychiatric evaluation, and work with the community and family.