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Sexual Abuse Is A Mageifa- Mendy Klein
about the project
Project Heal’s therapy program helps victims of child sexual abuse process and heal from the trauma.
The proposed project addresses the steady increase in call volume since the organization’s establishment, and the resultant need to increase capacity in order to effectively save lives and address the complex needs of those who call. Survivors of child sexual abuse suffer from a wide range of serious emotional and physical disorders. Many engage in dangerous self-destructive behaviors including addictions, eating disorders and suicide. Of the more than179 suicides or accidental drug overdoses under the age of 35 in the Orthodox Jewish community since Jan 1 2017, 80% were victims of child sexual abuse (CSA). Thus, a timely and effective response to callers who were molested as children is often a matter of life and death.
Project Heal’s Therapy Subsidy Program makes professional therapeutic services accessible to victims of sexual abuse who otherwise would not be able to get therapy. The program is geared to support victims who are unable to pay for therapy on their own.
Quality expert psychotherapy is critical to a CSA survivor coming to terms with the past, addressing how molestation as a child is affecting the present, and moving towards healing. Therapists experienced in treating CSA survivors charge between $250 and $300/session. Clients suffering from addictions or eating disorders need therapists experienced in these areas as well.
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about amudim
Amudim, under the guidance of Daas Torah, has been at the forefront of abuse and is the number one resource for sexual abuse case management and support. Our confidential resource center provides direct support and referrals and our educational programs raise awareness and promote prevention.
Amudim ensures that every Jew in crisis has a place to turn. Amudim has filled a crucial need in our communities, providing a lifeline in every situation, no matter how difficult, or how many others have already given up hope. Amudim stands by people during times of crisis, providing urgent care in the most professional and compassionate manner possible. We have received the most difficult requests imaginable and our answer is always yes.
As the first line of response for emergencies in our community, Amudim takes on the enormous responsibility of protecting, healing, and saving those that are in desperate need of help and have nowhere else to turn.
SERVICES
Child abuse and molestation are ugly facts of life that we must contend with – we can no longer afford to ignore this threat. We must become proactive and prevent to the best of our abilities additional occurrences of abuse and molestation.- Harav Elya Brudny, Rosh Yeshiva Mir Yeshiva of Brooklyn
lives saved
It’s all about saving lives.
Through Project Heal, survivors and their families receive support in healing from the trauma in the various different areas that has affected their lives.
Project Heal provides:
- Access to case management to provide support for the survivors as well as to help connect them and their families to the right resources.
- Financial assistance distributed directly to the assigned therapists utilizing evidence based treatment.
- Regular check-ins with both clients and provided therapists to support and ensure satisfaction of therapeutic process as well as prevention of future risk and harm.
- Collaboration with other mental health organizations to work on future prevention in the community.
“HELP US CHANGE THE LIVES FOR THOSE IN NEED”
costs
Become a sponsor today and help save a life!
Amudim projects that at least 300 new CSA survivors will reach out to Amudim in 2018, with an estimated 60% requiring a therapy subsidy. Amudim proposes expanding the fund with a greater infusion of money and a subsidy rate ($125/session) so that more clients can benefit from the highest level of expert care. Thus, each eligible client will receive a subsidy up to a maximum of $125/session for up to 50 sessions in one year. Eligibility for the therapy subsidy will be determined by expert clinical assessments and strict income guidelines, factoring in total family income and extraordinary expenses.
$250,000 - Lifetime naming rights for the overall program
$65,000 - Sponsor the staff costs - program administrator, who is a licensed clinician
$40,000 - Intake and office personal
$25,000 per year - Sponsor continue training programs for staff and therapists
$20,000 - Sponsor the web development and software for the program
$5,000 - Sponsor the one time costs of start up, computers, printer, scanner, phone etc…
SPONSOR LIFESAVING THERAPY FOR AN ABUSE VICTIM
- Total costs for 2 years $12,000
- Annually $6,000
- Monthly $500
- Weekly $125
CONTACT
Amudim is unparalleled in standing by people during their toughest issues. With their caring staff and amazing passion for helping others, they set up an island of calm, and give their people the right direction and plan of action.- David Pelcovitz, Ph.D
Contact
If you want to apply for therapy subsidization, please call Project Heal at 929-425-8780 and speak to a case worker. Do not use this form for applications.
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