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About the Project
Disabled Children often enter the foster care placement in desperate need of assistance, after their basic medical, para medical, dental, educational and rehabilitative needs have been neglected since birth.
Why this Project is important
The majority of children and teenagers placed in foster care are the product of neglect, exploitation and abandonment. The children carry with them the internal scars of maltreatment. Their relationships with primary caregivers during infancy and early childhood were often inadequate to satisfy their earliest educational, cultural, physical and emotional needs. Unfortunately, inadequate government support will leave the foster parent without sufficient equipment and services to meet the child's needs. During the procedure of taking a child out of home for a long period, certain events sometimes occur, that need emergency acting for his rehabilitation. Of the 770 children and adolescents in Summit's foster care program 26% are physically disabled or mentally challenged, 35% are under the age of ten, 15% are new immigrants, and 16% are from the Israeli Arab and Bedouin Communities. Summit coordinates its foster care program from offices in Jerusalem, Be'er Sheva, Kiryat Malachi Eilat
What the project achieves
Children at risk often enter the foster care placement in desperate need of assistance, after their basic medical, para medical, Psychological; dental, educational and rehabilitative needs have been neglected since birth. These needs focus in particular on the purchase of basic furnishings such as beds , orthopedic and rehabilitation equipment for disabled children, para-medical treatments, computers for disabled and mentally challenged children unable to write, and complex dental treatment in particular for children with physical disabilities. All foster children, at times with severe emotional problems, need strengthening of their mental therapy, lessons assistance, cultural activities and tutoring, interest and hobby groups. Summit will also provide intensive and suitable levels of care that will assure an environment that can meet the foster care child’s emotional needs and prevent their institutionalization or the dropout of foster care children or foster care parents.
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