By “healing, and not holding”, Areivim empowers young adults to create healthy, valuable, & productive futures.
Areivim’s approach is creating generations of healthy, productive, and valued community members.
An overwhelming majority of troubled teens helped by Areivim come from backgrounds of personal, or familial, mental illness and dysfunction. Generally, the pain and damage caused by those issues cannot be solved with one generic approach. Areivim has responded to this by increasing the extent of our interaction with each teenager, and young adult, in the form of adoptive mentoring.
In the past, the mentoring approach meant meeting with the teen a number of times per week, texting regularly, and intervening in times of crisis. Adoptive mentoring is a more involved form of intervention, in which the boy is placed in one of our residences, which is an extremely healthy environment. What’s most important is that, even if the teen doesn’t respond immediately, the environment is a structured, loving, focused, and accountable one. In some cases the Areivim staff are also able to guide the parents, which will accelerate the return home.
The goal is to effectively heal the teenagers, and set them on an emotionally, and mentally, healthy path, as opposed to “holding” them, and hoping that their issues will sort out with time.
Areivim’s success is beautiful to behold. Sons call their parents before Shabbos, teenagers don’t “lose it”, and they sense that our environment is geared for personal, and communal, growth. Words like “please” and “thank you” can be heard from the mouths of people from whom you’d never expect to hear it. In addition, the Sholom Bayis levels of our alumni are significantly above the average, and their young children are “doing great”. Many of our young adults are working, and their employers are very happy with their work.
An overwhelming majority of troubled teens helped by Areivim come from backgrounds of personal, or familial, mental illness and dysfunction. Generally, the pain and damage caused by those issues cannot be solved with one generic approach. Areivim has responded to this by increasing the extent of our interaction with each teenager, and young adult, in the form of adoptive mentoring.
In the past, the mentoring approach meant meeting with the teen a number of times per week, texting regularly, and intervening in times of crisis. Adoptive mentoring is a more involved form of intervention, in which the boy is placed in one of our residences, which is an extremely healthy environment. What’s most important is that, even if the teen doesn’t respond immediately, the environment is a structured, loving, focused, and accountable one. In some cases the Areivim staff are also able to guide the parents, which will accelerate the return home.
The goal is to effectively heal the teenagers, and set them on an emotionally, and mentally, healthy path, as opposed to “holding” them, and hoping that their issues will sort out with time.
Areivim’s success is beautiful to behold. Sons call their parents before Shabbos, teenagers don’t “lose it”, and they sense that our environment is geared for personal, and communal, growth. Words like “please” and “thank you” can be heard from the mouths of people from whom you’d never expect to hear it. In addition, the Sholom Bayis levels of our alumni are significantly above the average, and their young children are “doing great”. Many of our young adults are working, and their employers are very happy with their work.
