WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE
HOMELINESS
A WARM, SUPPORTIVE AND PROMOTIVE HOME
Amit’s programs are homes for their residents, operating under the title –
“A warm, supportive and promotive home”:
A warm home – a pleasant place to live.
A supportive home – a place that accommodates the resident’s unique needs.
A promoting home – a place that aspires to lead the resident forward on the path of life.
FEELS LIKE HOME
A home is not merely a structure, a home is a matter of feeling, a home is a place where “I feel at home.” The saying “I feel at home” is personal, and means different things to different people. Different people will say it in a different manner. Normally this feeling grows in a person in a place where they feel they are able to change, design and adjust the character of the home to their needs and wants.
Amit staff is dedicated to continuously seek the factors that will increase the homely sensation in the programs and the residents’ feeling of belonging in them.
A HOME FOR LIFE
Amit programs are built according to the needs, wants and skills of the residents, which means they evolve as the residents evolve.
Sometimes this means paying attention to the residents’ increasing levels of independence, their maturing process, changing aspirations, sometimes it means new medical conditions and needs… no matter what, Amit staff sees the resident and his/her needs as the point around which a home forms, which dictates the kinds of services and support it has to provide.
LIFE AT HOME
Life in any person’s home consists of a long collection of experiences.
Weekdays, holidays, loves, friendships, partnerships, guests, family, friends, neighbors and surrounding community, going on vacations and returning from them, all these collect to form the general experience of “living at home”.
We in Amit see each of our resident as being born with the right for this experience, in the fulness of its complexity, and therefore consider it our duty to find and nurture each resident’s unique path and ability to tread down it.
A WHOLISTIC APPROACH
TREATMENT, EDUCTION AND PROMOTION THROUGH A WHOLISTIC APPROACH
IN THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE
WE ARE ALL WORTHY… OF MORE!
According to our perception, the needs of the body, spirit and mind are interconnected, and therefore in order to give Amit’s residents a warm, supportive and promotive environment we must answer all their physical, spiritual and mental needs. Each of our residents is an entire universe: each has unique wants, needs, loves and means of expression which characterize them and set them out from the rest.
Our duty is to recognize the uniqueness of each resident and nurture it. We do not believe that everyone is worthy, we believe that everyone is worthy of more!
A PERSONAL PROGRAM FOR EACH RESIDENT
We construct a personal program for each resident in our homes, which seeks to answer all their physical, spiritual and mental needs. This program leads the resident to change and develop over the course of their life. The program aims to strengthen the resident’s positive traits, empower and nurture them. The personal program is modeled individually for each resident, and emphasizes their uniqueness as a person in society, aspiring to help manifest their abilities.
Our goal is that each of our residents will have a unique social role among the home’s community, a social role which makes them not only equal among equals – but unique among equals.
THE CIRCLE OF SUPPORT AND PROMOTION
According to our perception, the resident, with their entire scope of personality and ever-changing needs, stands at the center of the circle. Next to them is the immediate caregiver, and around them are all the professionals who provide their tools to lead the resident on their way to manifest and empower themselves.
This circle of support evolves with the resident over the years, and is dedicated to an uncompromising search for new ways towards the resident’s evolution and welfare.
IN ROUTINE AND IN CRISIS
ROUTINE: BETWEEN SERINITY AND CHALLENGE
According to the resident’s character, needs and wants, a daily routine is built for them in their Amit home.
Amit staff has to lead the resident to grow, evolve, and seek new challenges for self-manifestation.
A process of growth and empowerment leans on deep, wide routes of serene routine.
The schedule in each Amit home is constructed in a way that serves this purpose, of building a serene routine which enables growth and overcoming challenges.
ROUTINE: BETWEEN EMPLOYMENT AND VACATION
The resident’s routine will be built according to their age, character, talents, will, and abilities, with aspiration for freedom.
Productive employment rooms, work in the free market, an assortment of enrichment classes in arts and sports, petting zoos and activities involving animals, alternative medicine treatments, support groups, study groups, trips, vacations in hotels in Israel and even guided trips abroad, incorporation in academic frames, all these form our life routine in Amit homes and serve the residents according to each one’s personal program.
Each home has its own routine and each resident has a choice and influence over their own schedule.
TIMES OF CRISIS
“If we don’t experience difficult times, how will we be able to recognize the pleasant ones?”
Disappointment, frustration, anger or changing medical conditions may alter the person’s ability to function and drop their mood down to an emotional, mental or medical crisis.
Every person finds themselves, unwillingly, in times of crisis, the causes of which are related to their personal traits and means of coping with life’s challenges.
Our staff is ready to give care in these various times of crisis, and adjusts the treatment of the crisis to fit the character and uniqueness of the resident, aspiring to help them return as quickly as possible to their life routine; our life routine.
FRIENDSHIP AND JOY
JOYFUL AND FRIENDLY TREATMENT TOOLS
Friendship creates a joy of life which opens the person for learning and evolving.
Amit staff is composed of various professionals from the fields of education, treatment, medicine, alternative medicine, art and more, and they all tune their work to this idea.
Our way is the way of joy and friendship: joy of life as a social way of life, because Amit means friend, a lifelong friend.
PROGRESS ON THE SPECTRUM OF LIFE
THEIR RIGHT = OUR DUTY
Every person progresses and evolves on the spectrum of life according to their will, aspirations and talents, and the opportunities society offers them.
Our residents are as every person.
Out of their right to move on the spectrum of life, stems our duty to shine a light on their way, to enable their aspirations to form, talents to develop, abilities to strengthen, to provide true opportunity in their environment to evolve, develop, move.
FROM DEPENDENCE TO SUPPORTED INDEPENDENCE
Life is progression – from a state of existential dependence on the environment (infancy), through increasing levels of independence and social acclimation (adolescence), towards a state of mindful reciprocity with society (adulthood), eventually completing the circle and depending again on the environment (elderliness). Amit home supply its residents the opportunity they deserve to experience this line of progression. We exchange the term “independence” with “supported independence”.
In other words: every resident, in each of our homes, enjoys their right to move towards independence according to their will and with constant support according to their needs.
THE ISRAELI LIFE-TRAJECTORY, AND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIETY
Kindergarten, elementary school, high school, military, long-term trip, university, work, family, mortgage, worries, pleasures, pension… we all know the typical Israeli life-trajectory.
We use its positive aspects to form the trajectory experienced in Amit.
When constructing each resident’s personal program, based on their ability and will, we always aspire to bring them closer to the Israeli life-trajectory. We promote this matter by cooperating with the outside community on many projects: Volunteer work, youth movements, youth sports and culture centers, employment programs and even projects with the IDF and the police.
DIFFERENT HOMES ON THE SPECTRUM
Amit homes include houses of varying physical, social and therapeutic characteristics, so that our residents get a chance to experience “moving” between homes as a part of their progress and according to the needs which change with age. Each house gets a different level of support according to the residents’ level of independence, some houses are used as training units towards moving to the next home, and some are houses which change and “grow up” with their occupants.
Different homes for different residents, different homes on the spectrum of life.
Different homes with one common trait: they grow and develop with and for their residents.
Because Amit means friend, a lifelong friend.
WORKING AND VISITING HOURS
WORKING HOUSR: ALWAYS.
Amit homes work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
We are here.
24/7/365.
Always.
With you and for you.
VISITING HOURS: ALWAYS.
Our facilities are always open to the residents’ families. Always and at any time.
It is customary to announce and coordinate a visit in advance, but we are also aware of some families’ wish to make surprise visits in order to build trust, therefore we emphasize:
You are welcome to visit.
Always.
STAFF
Each Amit home employs a professionalized staff according to the home’s nature and in line with the regulations of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services.
The staff is the most important resource in our organization; therefore, we busy ourselves with training it, promoting it and supplying it with the most advance tools.
The staff in every home goes through qualification courses and takes professional workshops according to the demands of the Ministry, according to the character of each home and according to our ideology which sees a skillful staff member as the key to our success.