GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILEISRAELMEASURESAPARTMENTS FOR MOTHERS EXITING THE CYCLE OF PROSTITUTION AND THEIR CHILDREN
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Apartments for mothers exiting the cycle of prostitution and their children
Type of Measure
Services > Social services > Shelter Safe accommodation
Form of Violence
Trafficking; Violence against women and girls;
Brief Description

As part of the implementation of the anti-prostitution program, there is a joint venture formulated with the Women's Wisdom Center to open three designated apartments for mothers in the process of exiting the cycle of prostitution and their children. Each apartment (of five rooms) may accommodate up to six people (three mothers and three children). Alongside a place for residence provided to them, mothers will get support in an individual therapeutic process, aiming to help them cope with the complex traumas and act to improve parenting skills and integrate optimally in the labor market and in society as a whole. The children will receive support in therapy as well, with an emphasis on improving the mother's relation with her children.

The project currently operates one apartment, where two women live with their two children. The MWSS budget for the project (to finance three apartments) is about 800 thousand NIS. As a joint venture, 'Women's Wisdom' Center is budgeting the project from its own sources by the same amount as the MWSS.

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