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Research in Action
News from the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute
February 2012 |
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Research in Action Editor: Etan Diamond, Director, International Communications Staff: Elisabet Mizrachi, Community Relations Associate |
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We are pleased to share with you Research in Action, the new e-newsletter from the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute in Israel.
Our newsletter provides information about the Institute's activities and studies, including:
- the latest findings on key social issues
- important developments in programs and policies on the national agenda
- information on the effectiveness of Israel's efforts to address social challenges
- new international collaborations and professional exchanges
We hope you find this e-newsletter useful and welcome your comments.
Martin Paisner Chairman, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute
Prof. Jack Habib Director, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute
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Changing How We Care for Israel's Elderly | MJB informs national health policy
If the participants in this year's national health policy leadership conference have their way, Israel's health care system will have to dramatically change the way Israel cares for its elderly population over the next two decades.
The country's 65+ population is projected to grow by 85 percent by 2030, creating new challenges for a health care system already straining to meet its goals.
The Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute is playing a key role in meeting these challenges, having helped to organize the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research's 2011 Dead Sea Conference, an annual gathering to discuss major policy issues that can improve the functioning of Israel's health system.
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Exporting Research Expertise to China
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Between the heavy exposure to western society, massive rural-to-urban migration, and the long-term impacts of a 1-child policy, China is struggling to address the future directions of its youth.
To help find solutions, researchers in the world's largest country have turned to Israel.
MJB, together with researchers from Bar Ilan University, are bringing Israeli expertise in applied social research to China as part of a multi-year international partnership to cooperate on research on youth and children. This project is supported by the Marshall Weinberg Fund.
Read more about the Institute's recent professional exchange with the China Youth University for Political Sciences (CYU) in Beijing.
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How are Immigrant Youth Faring? MJB Research Examines Second-generation Ethiopian and Russian Youth
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As a country built on waves of immigration, Israel has long been concerned with the integration of newcomers into their new land. But where much attention has been paid to the experience of first-generation immigrants, the children of immigrants have their own story to tell as well.
This story is beginning to be told, thanks in large part to a new pathbreaking national study of Israel's second-generation immigrant youth, conducted by the Institute's Engelberg Center for Children and Youth with the support of the Harry Weinrebe Fund. For the first time, data is available that compares the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrant youth from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), Ethiopia, and other communities around the world.
This study builds on the Institute's previous research on immigrant youth, which showed, for example, very significant progress in education and social integration among first-generation Ethiopian youth during their initial years in Israel.
Now, the study turns to the next chapter in Israel's immigration history.
Read more...
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Effective Models for Arab-Israeli Employment
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Increasing Arab participation in Israel's workforce is one of the recommendations emphasized in the Trajtenberg Report, the government's response to last summer's social protest. After all, only 27 percent of Arab-Israeli women of working age are employed, compared to close to 73 percent of Jewish-Israeli women.
In 2009, MJB published the first national study of Arab Israeli women's employment patterns, which continues to provide a basis for national planning efforts.
As well, we recently published an evaluation of a one-stop employment center for the Bedouin in the Negev, which has become the prototype model for a network of 20 centers being established by the Government of Israel (Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, and the Prime Minister's Office) with the help of JDC and philanthropic organizations.
Click here for Fast Facts on the Arab-Israeli community. Click here for lessons learned from the Institute's evaluations of Arab-Israeli employment programs.
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Spotlight on Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month
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February is Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month, and MJB is your source for the latest statistics, reports, and information on people with disabilities in Israel, with a report on the Mandell Berman Fund for Research on Children with Disabilities.
Click here for our special web page on Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month!
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Expansion of National Program for Children and Youth at Risk. In January, the Israeli government approved the expansion of the National Program of Children and Youth at Risk to 92 new communities (more than double the current 72 communities), representing an additional 60,000 children and youth at risk. Begun in 2008, the National Program is an innovative interministerial effort to improve and expand the services at the community level. MJB has been instrumental in the establishment and on-going monitoring of the National Program, and recently published a detailed mapping of the needs of children and youth at risk being served in the program. The new expansion will enable thousands of children and families to access services that can help them move towards healthier and safer situations.
New international journal on health policy research. Bruce Rosen (Director, Smokler Center for Health Policy Research) is the co-founder of the newly published Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR). The Journal will focus on areas where Israel has important accomplishments in the field and on areas where Israel is grappling with challenges similar to those around the world. The goal is to engage scholars from across the globe and to create opportunities for international collaboration in Israel's health policy development process.
Learning from Success goes global. The Institute's own Learning from Success method was recently adopted as part of the global training program for ATD (All Together for Dignity), a leading international organization dedicated to the eradication of poverty. The method will be used to train anti-poverty workers in the 30+ countries where ATD works. Training of the ATD senior staff was conducted by Director Jona Rosenfeld and Orna Shemer at a series of seminars in Mery s/Oise near Paris, France. The work of the Learning from Success Unit is supported by the Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Charities and the Marshall Weinberg Fund.
Child participation in family courts. MJB research played a significant role in a landmark decision by the Israeli Minister of Justice to enable children to meaningfully participate in family court proceedings in Israel. Researchers Dori Rivkin and Yoa Sorek recently published a detailed discussion of the Institute's evaluation of the pilot project in the International Journal of Law, Policy, and the Family.
National health care symposium. On January 5, 2012, MJB, Bar Ilan University, and National Institute for Health Policy Research held a national symposium on "The Intersections between Caregivers and Care Recipients in the Health System." The symposium was held in memory of the late MJB Senior Researcher Revital Gross, who passed away last June. Revital had been with the Institute for 20 years, and was instrumental in developing our health policy research agenda. Of note was her leadership in the Insitute's bi-annual national survey of the public's interaction with the health care system, recognized as one of the most influential studies on Israeli health care.
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