Youth Futures has been working to promote social mobility since 2006, with the goal of reducing risk situations among children and their families in approximately 60 local authorities located in Israel’s social and geographic periphery.
The uniqueness of the program lies in the implementation of the Mentorship Model — a distinctive holistic support model based on a meaningful relationship between the child and their family and a Mentor, a significant adult who serves as a role model.
Each Mentor works full-time with 15 children, providing individual guidance over three years in a unique journey of growth and development. In addition, the Mentor leads a social group of approximately six children in a one-year, shorter-term track focused on developing social skills, personal empowerment, and strengthening a sense of belonging.
Youth Futures in Numbers
Our Model
Youth Futures has developed a new paradigm in which the Mentor serves as the primary intervention tool and the key factor in the success of children and their families. Mentors undergo professional training and are recruited from within the local community, enabling them to bring culturally sensitive understanding alongside the holistic support process.
Each Mentor works closely and full-time with 15 children and their families over a three-year period. In addition, the Mentor accompanies a small social group of approximately six children in a one-year track focused on developing social skills, personal empowerment, and strengthening a sense of belonging.
Challenges Become Successes
Spheres of Intervention
Mentors provide their holistic support system across four spheres – Personal, Familial, Social, and Educational. This approach is based on the understanding that there are interactive relationships between members of society and various experiential spheres.
Domains of Impact
Youth Futures mobilizes the family, the municipality or local authority, the educational system, and community institutions and members as well as additional circles of influence around the child. The cooperation between the stake-holders yields new and unique responses leading to the development and growth of all the partners to the process.
Our Activities
Center
During Crises
Parent Groups
Themed Days
Heartbeats - Youth Futures for Early Childhood
The Heartbeats program was established with the aim of creating a response for parents of infants in order to support them in the initial stages of parenting, encouraging the parent-child relationship, healthy development of the children and utility of the services available in the community.
Our new initiatives
Impact - Youth Futures Evaluation and Assessment
Youth Futures aims to achieve a significant improvement in all its spheres of intervention. The organization conducts evaluation and assessments by means of a CRM system for the management of data together with the external assessment of the Digma Institute.
Immediate Impact - children in the program
Of the children improved by a least one grade in the personal resilience realm
Of the children improved by a least one grade in the educational function realm
Children improved by a least one grade in the social function realm.
Of the children improved by a least one grade in the nuclear family relationships realm
Of the children improved by a least one grade in the parental function realm.
Influence at the family level
Improvement in awareness of the needs of their child
Of the parents feel that their child underwent a positive change in all spheres of intervention
Of the parents report the mentor as a significant figure in the child's life
What is being said about us?
Branches
South
Partners and Supporters
Donors from Israel and abroad
Government Ministries and Local Authorities
