Caregiver Workforce Crisis: A Strike Barely Avoided; Foreigners to Bolster Labor Shortage
Caregiver Workforce Crisis: A Strike Barely Avoided; Foreigners to Bolster Labor Shortage There is a critical workforce crisis among all organizations serving people with disabilities in Israel. Salaries are very low, not even a living wage. Burnout is high. The job is physical and emotionally draining. Due to recent wage agreements with the Ministry of […]
Leaving Rubenenko – Breakups as New Opportunities
This past August, after over three decades of successful collaboration, Chimes Israel parted ways with sheltered employment services and adult nursing care at the Tel Aviv Rubenenko Center. Chimes Israel began its 32-year professional journey in partnership with the City of Tel Aviv at the dilapidated Ramat HaHayal, Tel Aviv building. Over the years, we […]
The Magical Combination of Learning and Doing: New Training Workshop Prepares Kfar Saba Clients Employment Success
We are excited to share that for the first time we have begun a training workshop for work in the open market that combines theoretical classroom learning alongside practical work experience. The first group, which began its journey in March at Chimes Israel’s Kfar Saba employment center, includes 12 formerly sheltered work clients, who expressed […]
Recovery to Reintegration through Employment Support
Avi was a university grad in his early 30s with a diagnosed mental illness, who found himself attempting suicide triggered by his divorce and estrangement from his young daughter. After his release from a psychiatric hospital, he was still in a lost state with no job or place to live. As part of a team […]
Enjoyment, Self-Esteem & Sweet Memories: a Chimes Educator Explains His Mission
Meet Tomer Amram, an instructor for over four years at the “Chimes Enoch therapeutic afterschool program in Tel Aviv. Born to an Israeli mom and a Thai father, Tomer came to Israel from Thailand at age 13 after his parent’s divorce. “As a child I grew up in Thailand and studied in an international school […]
Preparing Girls with Disabilities for Life’s Challenges through Self-Advocacy & Empowerment
In August, we wrapped up our first ever Self-Advocacy & Empowerment workshop for girls in our afterschool program at the Enoch school in Tel Aviv. We designed the pilot interactive workshop, funded by the L’Oréal Foundation for Women, to give the girls the necessary tools to understand harmful, abusive, violent or exploitative situations and relationships. […]
The Power of a Smile: The Enormous Difference a Volunteer Can Make
With her big smile and bouncy personality, Katya came to us from Argentina, through the Israeli Volunteer Association. She wanted to volunteer at a school, but came to Chimes’ Hadas Early Childhood Rehabilitative Day Care Center in Holon for a tour and fell in love the preschool children. Katya plays with the children, and assists […]
