The Engelberg Center for Children and Youth

The Engelberg Center for Children and Youth promotes the well-being of Israel’s children and youth, with a special commitment to disadvantaged and minority populations.

Over the past two decades, Israel has undergone a significant shift in its approach to services for children and youth, with greater emphasis on preventive programs based in the community, more systematic planning at the local level, and the development of mechanisms to ensure inter-ministerial and inter-agency collaboration. The Center has played a key role in supporting these developments.

We are continuing to support the further development of these reforms, as well as a number of new national initiatives.

Major themes for 2013

Care for "At Risk" and Disadvantaged Children and Youth
Work with Vulnerable Families and Families in Crisis
Comprehensive Local Initiatives
Promoting Opportunities for Education and Acquiring Skills
Promotion of Positive Youth Development
Transition to Adulthood
International Activities

Publications Engelberg Center
Major themes for 2013
MJB Presents at UN Forum on Adolescents and Youth

26/07/2012

Miriam Cohen-Navot, Director of the Engelberg Center for Children and Youth, represented Israel at the United Nations' Commission on Population and Development's 45th Session, in April this year.

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Publications Engelberg Center

Gantz Zahler Seminar on Child Welfare: Foster Care and Adoption

This year's Gantz Zahler Seminar brought together over 100 professionals working in foster care and adoption.

17/07/2012

Promoting Early Assessment and Treatment of ADHD among School Children

MJB’s Center for Research on Disabilities together with the Hebrew University Medical School are undertaking a large-scale study to assess the effects of early screening for ADHD among first- and second-grade students in Jerusalem

17/07/2012

MJB Examines Second-generation Ethiopian and Russian Youth

A pathbreaking national study of Israel’s second-generation immigrant youth, conducted by the Institute's Engelberg Center for Children and Youth with the support of the Harry Weinrebe Fund for the Advancement of Children, provides first data comparing first- and second-generation immigrant youth

16/02/2012

Exporting Research Expertise to China

MJB, together with researchers from Bar Ilan University, are bringing Israeli expertise in applied social research to China as part of a multi-year international partnership to cooperate on research on youth and children, with the support of the Marshall Weinberg Fund for Professional Collaboration and Development

15/02/2012