The Summit Institute, established in 1973, is currently reaching approximately 1,200 of Israel's most disadvantaged children and young adults through the following three primary frameworks.
The Summit Institute is a non-profit organization rescuing and caring for Israeli children who have been removed from their homes as a result of abuse and severe neglect, providing them with a warm home, a loving family, and critical therapeutic and scholastic support. In addition, for the past four decades the organization has operated unique psychosocial rehabilitation programs for adolescents and young adults coping with mental illness. Since 2006, the Summit Institute has operated a support center for parents of adolescents in crisis. Under the supervision of the Welfare Ministry and the Health Ministry, and with the aid of other partners, the Summit Institute enables children, adolescents and young adults to emerge from the cycle of trauma towards a healthier and more stable future.
Vision, Mission and Values
The Summit Institute provides professional, comprehensive and intensive emotional care to special needs children and young adults, in order to address their integration in normative, healthy and active lives in the community.
The Summit Institute is guided by the following values:
