Elem - Youth in Distress in Israel

ELEM assists adolescents dealing with different types of crises: pressures, trauma, risk and distress. Adolescence is a period rife with problems. These problems are exacerbated by the economic, social and security difficulties in Israel. Today there are about 350,000 children between the ages of 0 and 18 in Israel ,a 2.5 of whom are living at various levels of risk. ELEM is a real address for at-risk youth and helps them find their way back into the community. Every year, ELEM meets with tens of thousands of adolescents and provided ongoing treatment to approximately 20,000 of them.