35 HaBa'al Shem Tov st,
Tel Aviv-Jaffo
Israel
- Youth and education
The Women’s Courtyard is a unique multicultural, stigma-free framework that provides support and assistance for girls and young-adult women in distress and at-risk who reside in the cities of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Bat Yam.
The organization promotes social justice, equal opportunities and the right of every woman and girl to achieve self-fulfillment in accordance with her will, aspirations and needs, independent of national origins or ethnicity. The organization employs professional staff members from the therapeutic field and dozens of volunteers who invest and dedicate their time and energy for the benefit and well-being of the women who participate in a wide-range range projects offered by the Courtyard.
While those in the Courtyard’s care come from varying backgrounds, including native Israelis, immigrants from Ethiopia and Bukhara, Muslim and Christian Arabs, and others, the vast majority have one unfortunate and seemingly inescapable challenge in common: coping with life on the extreme margins of Israeli society.
The Courtyard’s central objectives are as follows:
• The development and implementation of an innovative and unique model for treating young women and girls aged 13-25 who are in distress and at-risk
• Sharing and publishing the Courtyard’s expertise and thus contribute to the promotion of a serious and informed discourse required for broad social transformation and to promote the adaptation of the Courtyard’s unique model for use by other NGO’s or communities
The organization’s vision of creating social change by addressing all aspects of girls’ and women’s lives is reflected in the three main projects in operation today:
• The Open Space Project – serving as an all-female forum for professional guidance, positive peer contact, individual care and group support;
• Employment and Advocacy Project - offering tools and guidance in support of project participants’ efforts to lift themselves out of economic hardship;
• Halfway Apartment – providing safe lodging, support and further empowerment of young women who seek to leave their homes and go on to independent living.
The Women's Courtyard developed a special practice of working with girls at-risk. We are partners in many local round tables efforts, the forum fighting poverty in Israel and others. We are working with hundreds of girls and the community surrounding them, dozens of "friends" and volunteers.
We strongly believe in collaborations, knowledge sharing and round-table work. We are interested in joining other Israeli orgs to lead together a new and different path for social change