Spaces for high-risk youth and young adults
Elem’s community spaces for at-risk youth and young adults provide accessible, community-based support tailored to young women and girls coping with complex trauma, ongoing abuse, and challenging life circumstances. Professional staff and volunteers offer long-term guidance, building trusted, non-judgmental relationships while providing emotional, social, and practical support alongside assistance with housing, employment, education, access to rights, and daily living. The programs foster safety, belonging, and independence, helping participants build a more stable future. They operate in partnership with government ministries, local authorities, and philanthropic foundations, while connecting participants with additional Elem services and community resources when needed.
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.