From: Development of a novel social incubator for health promoting initiatives in a disadvantaged region
Partner | Project | Innovative aspects | Outcomes | Roll Out Beyond the Local Organisation | External funding received to extend the project | Deemed as a Social Incubator Success |
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Social incubator success (rating 1) | ||||||
Local HMOs with Hatzor Social Welfare Services | Shared Mental Health Care | Creating an inter-agency shared care model across medical and social services for socially disadvantaged patients with mental illness | Balint groups established. 240 individuals received care through the project with reduction in health services use and medications | Three additional clinics established in southern and northern peripheries. Working with 3 of Israel’s 4 HMOs | Prestigious research grant from the Israeli National Institute of Health Policy Research | Yes - sustained and extended nationally |
Al-Manal, an NGO supporting Arab women, with Dugrinet, an NGO providing media training for charities | Empowering disabled Arab women as agents for health | Drawing on the potential strengths of isolated physically disabled Arab women to advocate for enhanced health services required by the disabled | Well-established team of 10 disabled Arab women. Audiovisual materials produced and meetings held with health service managers and in the community. Enhanced social circumstances for participants and self-esteem enhanced. | Another national NGO for physically disabled Arabs adopted parts of the program. | Grant from USA embassy MEPI program Funding from the NGO Healing across the Divides | Yes - sustained and extended locally |
Beterem- Safe Kids Israel (NGO promoting child safety) | Community Champions for Child Safety | Creating a team of volunteers in disadvantaged Arab and Jewish communities to ‘champion’ child safety on postnatal wards and in kindergartens | Safety lectures to new mothers directly after birth delivered weekly at Nazareth hospital. Volunteers also visit local schools to give session on safety to students and staff. | Extended to another neighbouring Arab towns | Funding from the NGO Healing across the Divides, and from Generation to Generation | Yes - sustained and extended locally |
Successfully ‘hatched’ with influence ongoing in some form (rating 2–3) | ||||||
Enosh, an NGO for individuals coping with mental illness | Lifestyle program for individuals coping with mental illness | Hiking as a regular and core activity to engender lifestyle change in the face of severe mental illness | 20 active participants on hikes. Healthy changes also engendered in club environment: healthier foods, more physical activity. Medical students are now involved. | The initiative influenced the adoption of healthy lifestyle in Enosh branches nationally | Local lifestyle program is now supported by National Enosh and private donors | Continued within Enosh locally |
Safed Municipality- social welfare services | Clowning by the elderly for the elderly | Creating a team of elderly clowns and bringing medical clowning to the community setting | A dedicated team of clowns trained, reporting increased meaning in their own lives. Visits made to local retirement homes and other community organisations are ongoing to an extent | _ | Prize received | Ongoing influence in Safed social services |
Carmiel Municipality Employment Office | Factory “health champions” | Establishing a network of trained factory workers to be ‘health champions’ within their factories | Four factories engaged. Changes in all four reported: eg healthier food options available in cafeterias; smoking policies and designated smoking areas outside factory instated. | _ | _ | Some ongoing influence in the factories |
Al-Taj Arab High School (NGO), Arrabeh | Arab high school girls as agents for health change | Training high school Arab girls to work inter-generationally to promote breast cancer awareness and mammography uptake | 44 students trained and reported positive conversations with women in their families. Ongoing lectures within school but no direct work with families | _ | _ | Some ongoing influence in the school |
Menachem Begin Amal High School in a low SES area | Enhancing self-esteem in high school students | Combining the drama curriculum with school psychology support services and community service in order to promote self esteem | Program well received with drama and counseling workshops on-going beyond the pilot year. No measurable increase in self-esteem found. | _ | _ | Some ongoing influence in the school. |
Child Development Center- Ziv Hospital | Autism: Play Project | Culturally adapting a USA evidenced based program for Arab and Jewish families | 22 families enrolled. Therapists gained skills. Marked improvement in play skills and parent-child communication in 8 families completing the course. Approach still used in Center but no home visits | _ | _ | Some ongoing influence in the Child Development Center |
Successfully hatched but not sustained (Rating 4) | ||||||
ENOSH, an NGO for individuals coping with mental illness | “Phototherapy” in mental illness | Increasing community awareness of mental illness and encouraging self-expression of individuals coping with severe mental illness through teaching photography in the framework of an NGO | 7 members completed the photography course and exhibited their work to the public in Safed City Arts Center. | _ | _ | Successful implementation but not sustained |
ENOSH Safed, NGO for individuals with mental illness. | Using Jewish sources to engage ultraorthodox men coping with mental illness | Engaging ultraorthodox Jews to cope with their severe mental illness in a culturally specific way, in a community where mental illness is often hidden | 13 Haredi men with mental illness attended a 12 week course with positive benefits. | _ | _ | Successful implementation but not sustained |
Upper Galilee Regional Council | Eco-friendly Kibbutz | Developing eco-friendly strategies in garden and play areas on Kibbutzim through raising awareness in the communities’ gardeners | Sixteen gardeners from 5 kibbutzim trained and a strategy implemented for working with the community and farmers to reduce environmental health risks | _ | _ | Successful implementation but not sustained |
Never ‘hatched’ (Rating 5) | ||||||
Safed Municipality Social Welfare Services | Support group for isolated young Arab mothers | Connecting young mothers from a remote Arab neighbourhood to facilities and activities in the Jewish town | Coordinator appointed but mothers could not be recruited | Failure |