Vision Association:
The Association for street-dwellers in Israel (RA) was established in 2015 and its main purpose is to work for the promotion, rehabilitation and empowerment of street dwellers in Israel.
The association takes care to operate shelters and rehabilitation care centers for street dwellers, to work for the extraction and realization of their rights and to promote the integration of street dwellers back to the community and society.
The organization's activities opens a path to the street dwellers to integrate back to society.
Association members have experience working with public matters and government throughout the country, including, divisions of the Ministry of Social Affairs, have units for the homeless, urban units addictions, urban units for prisoner rehabilitation, public defense, etc., and operate it independently, normative and productive.
Project "other way"
Hostel "other way" is small boarding school frame (up to 30 residents) long-term placement. The hostel is an open framework for men over the age of 18, and is located in a residential community.
target audience:
Homeless
goals:
The development of personal and social responsibility, accepting authority and framework laws, strengthening a sense of trust in establishment and frames, raising self-esteem and sense of competence and of course is a home to tenants.
The tenants are Integrated in the community, get employed and make use of community services to promote the process of integration back into the community. They are able to lead an independent life relatively, but are monitored and receive support and guidance throughout most of the day.
Rehabilitation concept guiding the hostel staff, consisting of a director, a coordinator, care staff , counselors and volunteers, is "rehabilitative environment." According to this view, environmental stimuli form the basis of a person's rehabilitation Placement hostel. Tenants can stay in a hostel for a period of between three months and a year and a half, when during their stay in the team is working intensively to achieve rehabilitation goals. Rehabilitation activities are carried out both at individual and group level.