The Center has turned into a productive, creative, multi-disciplined enterprise. Products produced in the workshops are being marketed to retailers, the proceeds of the sales acting as an important supplement to the participants’ income.

At present about 30 external and resident rehabilitants work daily in the sheltered workshop. From January 2009 to present, about 15 rehabilitants have been directed to the center by various treatment factors in the community (protected housing, hostel, family-format housing). Such rehabilitants are defined as “externals” whose treatment target is achieving occupational and social rehabilitation.

The Center offers a wide spectrum of vocational activities for more than 160 youths with a history of psychiatric illnesses. Currently, over 200 participants work in the general employment market in various scopes and contexts outside Summit, accompanied by our constant care and involvement.

Summit cares for children, youth and young adults at high risk and who have various disabilities within the community. Through its programs Summit prevents the institutionalization of those in its care, and assists them to integrate into mainstream Israeli life. At present, Summit operates three programs:

[a] A Foster Care program: A rehabilitative foster care program for 770 sexually and violently abused and neglected children and teenagers. We care for 770 children and adolescents (aged 0-18) in 520 foster families and 10 Emergency Shelter foster families.

In 2003 the Summit Institute was appointed as the sole agency responsible for the placement and supervision of children in foster care in the Jerusalem and southern regions of the country, stretching all the way to Eilat.

[b] A psychosocial rehabilitation program: Located in Jerusalem, this program cares for 255 adolescents and young adults aged 18-35 with a history of psychiatric illnesses in five settings; three therapeutic live-in communities, 50 young adults (aged 21-and up), in independent supported housing, a supported employment program for 160 youths aged over 18 in the process of rehabilitation and a counseling and tutoring program for those not yet ready for supported employment.

[c] A Parents-Adolescents Treatment Supportive Center for 100 adolescents & parents within the community. The goal of this center is to enhance the life force of the families and to prevent them from sending the challenged children to boarding schools or to foster parents.