Training Courses For Medical Teams In Hospitals
Programs 2018
Training Hospital Emergency Room Staffs at Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, the French Hospital, Nazareth, Carmel and Rambam, Haifa, Shaare Zedek, Jerusalem
In collaboration with: The Ministry of Health
Goal: To provide tools for detecting maltreated children, and their treatment, with an understanding of the consequences of such abuse for both the short-term and the long-term.
Target Population: Doctors, nurses and social workers in the hospitals’ children’s wards
Number of Sessions: A total of 26: 12 in Hadassah, Jerusalem (four series); 3 in Rambam, Haifa; 3 in Shaare Zedek, Jerusalem, 6 in the French Hospital, Nazareth and 2 in Carmel Hospital, Haifa
Number of Participants: 60
Location: In the various hospitals
Training Staff at Hospitals of the Clalit HMO Health Services
In collaboration with: Clalit HMO health services
Goal: To provide the medical staff with tools to cope with situations in which there is suspicion of maltreatment of children
Target Population: Doctors and nurses of the Clalit HMO hospitals
Number of Sessions: Two courses, of 3 sessions and 8 sessions
Number of Participants: 55
Location: Tel Aviv
Training Social Workers at the Hillel Yaffe and Schneider Hospitals
In collaboration with: Hillel Yaffe Hospital, Hadera and Schneider Hospital, Petakh Tikva
Goal: To increase the hospital welfare personnel’s awareness of and knowledge of the issue of child abuse and neglect.
Target Population: Social workers
Number of Sessions: 10 sessions at Schneider Hospital, 8 sessions at Hillel Yaffe
Number of Participants: 45
Location: Hadera and Petakh Tikva
One-Day Seminar for the Medical Personnel at Yoseftal Hospital and the HMOs in Eilat, on the Ramifications of Child Abuse and Neglect
In collaboration with: Yoseftal Hospital
Goal: To expand the knowledge of the hospital’s welfare staff regarding child maltreatment.
Target Population: The medical personnel of Yoseftal Hospital and the HMO’s in Eilat.
Number of Participants: 35
Location: Eilat
Seminars for the Personnel of the Children’s Unit at Rambam Hospital
In collaboration with: Rambam Hospital
Goal: To expand the knowledge regarding maltreatment of children – for the staff of doctors, nurses and social workers in the hospital’s children’s unit.
Target Population: Doctors, nurses and social workers at the children’s unit
Number of Sessions: 4 one-day cycles
Number of Participants: 80
Location: Haifa
Programs 2017
One-Day Seminar: From Healer to Healing – Sexual Abuse in Children Referred to Emergency Medical Service: What Connects Medicine, Investigation, Police, Prosecutors, and Legal Escorts
In Partnership with: The Meir Hospital
Goal: To provide medical teams with tools and knowledge, to familiarize them with what happens following a report of child abuse, which is one of the reasons for non-reporting.
Target Population: The staff at Meir Hospital
Number of Sessions: 1
Participants: 100
Location: The Meir Hospital
Workshops for Teams of Emergency Medical Service Units for Children in Hospitals
Goal: To impart knowledge to medical teams, to help them detect and treat child victims of abuse and neglect that reach the hospital
Target Population: Nurses and social-workers, Children’s Department, Asaf Harofeh, Sha’arai Tzedek and Sheba Hospitals
Number of Sessions: 1-3
Participants: 120
Location: Asaf Harofeh, Sha’arai Tzedek and Sheba Hospitals
One-Day Seminar on Sexual Abuse – Hillel Yaffe Hospital
Goal: To provide the hospital teams with information on the ramifications of sexual abuse and ways to treat and help the victims
Target Population: Teams at the Hillel Yaffe Hospital
Number of Sessions: 1
Participants: 120
Location: Hillel Yaffe Hospital
Training Course for the Assuta Hospital Teams on Child Victims of Abuse and Neglect
In Partnership with: Assuta Hospital and Beit-Lynn, Ashkelon
Goal: To provide tools to detect and treat child victims of abuse and neglect that arrive to the hospital
Target Population: Nurses, doctors and social-workers in the Children’s Department, Assuta Hospital, Ashdod
Number of Sessions: 2
Participants: 80
Location: Assuta Hospital, Ashdod
One-Day Seminar on Children with Special Needs, Victims of Abuse and Neglect – at the Assaf Harofeh Hospital
Goal: To raise the hospital staff’s awareness of the complexity of detecting and treating children with special needs who are victims of abuse and neglect
Target Population: Teams at the Assaf Harofeh Hospital
Number of Sessions: 1
Participants: 120
Location: Assaf Harofeh Hospital