Rinat Namer Furstenberg

Rinat Namer Furstenberg

Research Associate, Disabilities Team (Family Group)

Disabilities

Research associate, Disabilities Team, Family Group, the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (MJB), Israel’s leading center for applied social research.

Rinat Namer Furstenberg has worked at MJB since 2016. Her primary research areas are: services and responses for children and youth at risk, intervention-planning and outcome-measurement systems, and the employment of excluded populations in the high-tech industry. She is also a consultant to NGOs and other civil society organizations on the adoption of logic models and outcome thinking.

Rinat holds a BA in psychology and biology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and an MA in rehabilitative neuropsychology from the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo.

She can be contacted at [email protected] or by telephone at 972-2-655-7431.

Arab Population

Disabilities

Services for Children with Disabilities and Their Parents: Identifying Needs, Barriers, and Family Resources
Rinat Namer Furstenberg, Dr. Lital Barlev, Nurit Guedj, Tamir Ayali
2023

This study had three goals: To learn about patterns of service utilization among children with disabilities and their families in the areas of education, healthcare, and leisure; To identify the barriers that impede the utilization of these services and exercising of rights, and to identify unmet needs of children with disabilities and their families; To understand the relationship between family characteristics and resources and service utilization among children with disabilities and their families.

Arab Population

Disabilities

Children with Disabilities in Israel: A National Study
Dr. Lital Barlev, Rinat Namer Furstenberg, Nurit Guedj
2021

The objective of the research was to estimate the proportion of children with disabilities in Israel, based on a national representative sample, and provide updated information about their disability types and their sociodemographic characteristics, such as gender, age and population group.

Disabilities

Supported Decision Making: Applied Aspects, Supervision, and Defining Optimal Support – International Review
Hila Rimon-Greenspan, Mariela Yabo, Rinat Namer Furstenberg, Dr. Dori Rivkin
2020

The goals of this review were to survey how SDM is applied in the countries surveyed and in selected pilot programs around the world; to examine the various mechanisms of safeguards and supervision or inspection of SDM arrangements; To define optimal support for decision-making.

Outcomes

An Intervention-Planning and Outcome-Measurement System in the Service for Youth and Young Adults: Concept Development and Insights from the Experience – Stage II
Dr. Tal Arazi, Rinat Namer Furstenberg
2018

Citing suggestion: Arazi, T., & Kahan-Strawczynski, R. (2018). Integrating Bedouin into Higher Education – An Evaluation of the Gateway to Academia Pilot at Sapir College. RR-788-18. Myers-JDC Brookdale Institute. (Hebrew)  

Journal Articles

Maidenbaum, S., Levy-Tzedek, S., Chebat, D. R., Namer-Furstenberg, R., & Amedi, A. (2014). The effect of extended sensory range via the EyeCane sensory substitution device on the characteristics of visionless virtual navigation. Multisensory Research, 27(5-6), 379-397.