Metal Hamsa Greeting Card
When ordering any item from Small Signs, in the shopping cart, you will be presented a greeting message option.
You can have it printed on a regular paper sheet, or inside an elegant greeting card.
By choosing the Metal Hamsa greeting card, you do
a mitzvah, because you support the Children's Therapeutic
Workshop at the Abarbanel Mental Health Center
in Bat Yam, Israel.
The Metal Hamsa Greeting Card includes:
- A color envelope with a folded card inside carrying a small metal hamsa (lucky hand) and few colored
beads attached.
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Your personal message elegantly printed
in an inner paper sheet.
The
Children Prevocational Workshop was estabilished
by the young people at the Yehuda Abarbanel Mental
Health Center, who, in their struggle to be no different
from others, create for their own sake, for others',
and to help them grow strong and find their place
in the community. Buying their products will help
them grow. The workshop was estabilished with the
kind help of "Agudat Sa'ad LaHole BeIsrael", the
Aid for the Infirm Association in Israel".
Rationale for establishing the prevocational workshop for the adolescent outpatient clinic - Occupational therapy
At the beginning of the year 2002, in response to the needs of the youth in our clinic, the transition to new quarters in a new building, and changes in the attitude of the community towards integrating rehabilitated patients within community frameworks, the need arose for establishing a prevocational workshop. The workshop's aim is to enable the adolescents in the outpatient clinic to become familiar with the work environment, its demands and its regulations, through a process of personal development and gradual reintegration into community life.
The project was established through the initiative of Keren Iflan, Occupational Therapist, based on a model used in psychiatric adolescent units throughout Israel. This model emphasizes the acquisition and development of work habits and has a functional-rehabilitative orientation. To ensure the project's success, we formed a planning team including special education professionals Noa Bibi and Negev Vardi. The team worked together to create and implement the workshop, with regular guidance and supervision provided by the occupational therapist with regard to the above mentioned points of emphasis.
The rationale
In our therapeutic work in recent years we have encountered increasing numbers of young people who have exhausted their capacities within the scholastic-academic field and at their present stage are uninterested, or unable, to return to it. In response to their need to find a place in the employment world, a setting or framework is required that will enable them to acquire the work habits and various other skills necessary to help them enter protected or ordinary workplaces outside the hospital. Our experience of the past years has shown us that the best type of workshop is one that includes varied productive activities and helps its participants become familiar with the work experience, its demands, rules and hierarchy - all this in a supportive and protected setting, where the guidance team can mediate between participants' needs and capabilities and the demands of the work environment. Besides teaching working |
