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Shelters for Victims of Trafficking
Type of Measure
Services > Social services > Shelter Safe accommodation
Form of Violence
Trafficking
Brief Description

The Government of Israel treatment program for trafficking victims includes varied frameworks, providing a diverse set of solutions, for victims of different needs and in different rehabilitative stages. It includes the following:

1. Ma'agan – a shelter for women victims (thirty-five (35) places)

2. The Atlas Center for male victims (thirty-five (35) places)

3. Family Apartments Complex (eighteen (18) places)

4. The National Center for Victims of Slavery and trafficking in persons (formerly titled the Day Center) (unlimited capacity)

The shelters provide psycho social support, assist with finding employment, and victims receive medical care throughout their stay. Victims are also eligible for state-funded legal aid for civil proceedings related to trafficking or for procedures related to their status in Israel. Victims also receive work visas – rehabilitation visas for a period of one year, and/or witness visas for those participating in legal proceedings, for the duration of the proceedings.

The institutions staff includes twenty-seven (27) employees: a manager in charge over all three (3) institutions for treating TIP victims and in addition, every shelter includes: a shelter coordinator, two (2) social workers, four (4) or five (5) instructors, a family support person, a secretary, a superintendent, a shelter's physician who comes to the shelter twice a week and a shelter psychiatrist, who comes to the shelter twice a month. In the “Ma’agan” shelter, the morning instructor speaks Tigrinya and in the “Atlas” center a Tigrinya interpreter is employed in the evenings.

The staff of the family apartments for women includes: a social worker who is also the apartments’ coordinator, an instructor, a secretary, an interpreter for Amharic and Tigrinya and a superintendent, who is also a full-time cook.

A children's social worker is also part of the staff of the “Ma’agan” shelter and the family apartments. The children's social worker is in charge of providing dyadic treatment to the mothers and children, as well as parental training, medical surveillances and contact The Legal Aid Administration (LAA)

The yearly operating budget of the shelters and transitional apartments, provided by the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services (MLSS), is 7,780,784 NIS (2,252,238 USD).

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