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Our History and Progress
Summit, established in 1973 by a trio of American immigrants to Israel, promotes and enables by its very structure a potent model of committed community-based social responsibility, mobilizing powerful forces across the broad spectrum of Israeli society toward a vision of arevut hadadit, of deep communal responsibility shared by the collective toward its most vulnerable.
Rather than isolating and institutionally treating the weaker elements of society, the Summit model uses the vitality of Israel's youth, the vibrancy of its diverse population, and the powerful eagerness for social responsibility within Israeli society, to begin to address the social ills that plague it.
Having treated thousands of young people over the years, Summit is currently reaching some 250 people struggling with mental illness in 4 different residential and occupational frameworks, and close to 900 children from infancy through age 18 -- many disabled -- in close to 650 family frameworks throughout Israel.
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