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Center for Children and Youth, Israel
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Center for Children and Youth
JDC -Brookdale Institute

JDC. Hill
P.O. Box 13087
Jerusalem 91130
Israel

Tel: +972-2-6557-400
Fax: +972-2-612391
E-mail: brook@jdc.org.il
Web site: http://www.jdc.org.il/brookdale/children/index.htm

Jack Habib
Director

- The system's response to abused and neglected children
- The development and utilization of information systems for monitoring, planning and policy-making
- Programme to advance research on children and youth in the Arab sector
- Improving the regulatory system for children and youth in Institutions
- Promoting opportunities for disadvantaged children and youth
- Health promotion among children and youth in the Middle East
- Identifying, documenting and disseminating approaches that facilitate best-practice intervention
- Fellowships for leadership development
- International activities

20 professionals

Professional background:
- Economics
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Social work
- Planning
- Health planning
- Education

- Cooperative link with Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago
- International Youth Foundation
- Organized a conference: Monitoring and Measuring the State of the Children - Beyond Survival, 1996, in cooperation with: National Council for the Child in Israel, European Centre for Social Welfare, Policy and Research, International Youth Foundation, Michigan, USA and the Institute for Families in Society, University of South Carolina, USA
- The international expert meeting on: Social Services for Children and the Welfare Mix was organized in cooperation with the Israel Council on Social Welfare, the Israel Committee for UNICEF, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the European Centre for Social Welfare, Policy and Research
- Participating in the WHO Cross-national Survey of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC)
- Collaborates with the International Initiative for Children, Families and Communities

Last updated: 12 December 1999