ELEM-Entry NY's Community Dinner to Support ELEM'S Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Violence Among Children and Youth

Money raised will support programs to help youth and teenage sex offenders and victims receive counseling 

WHAT: ELEM-Entry NY is hosting its fifth Community Dinner. Funds raised will support its Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Violence program, which deals with young sex offenders from young children to the age of 18. The program operates in centers in Tel Aviv, Afula, Shfaram (Arab community), Har Hevron (national religious community) and B’Nei Brak (Ultra-Orthodox community). The center conducts diagnostic services and group, individual, and family therapy for young sex offenders and their families.  In 2011, ELEM treated 124-sex offenders, aged five-17 and in many cases their families. The Center’s information hotline received over 200 calls. The program often coordinates educational and / or therapeutic groups in schools and prisons and workshops for teachers, social workers and parents.

WHEN:  Saturday, June 23, 8 p.m. Eastern 

WHERE: Multiple intimate dinner parties for the purpose of raising awareness and funds to help these children will take place in upscale residences across the NYC metro area. Locations include: the Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Midtown East, Brooklyn, Scarsdale, and Westchester. 

To attend or make Amanda Baumgart, +1.212.787.3337, abaumgart@elem.org .  

 WHO:   ELEM-Entry NY volunteers, a group of NYC-based American and Israeli young professionals, will be in attendance at all residences.  Several will discuss their visits to ELEM locations, where they did outreach with youth in need.  Up and coming Israeli rock and opera musicians will perform at each location. Performers include, but are not limited to Yonatan Gutfeld, Elad Kabilio, Bat-Or-Kalo and Dan Nadel with Lianne Aharoni . 

 About Elem

ELEM was founded in 1982 by a group of American and Israeli professionals and lay volunteers to help Israel’s population of at-risk youth become productive citizens. Today ELEM is Israel’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to the treatment and rehabilitation of abused, neglected, and adjudicated Jewish and Arab Israeli youth. The youth ELEM serves face tremendous hurdles; many live below the poverty line or struggle to assimilate as new immigrants. With a network of 250 professionals and almost 2,000 volunteers, ELEM is able to reach tens of thousands of youth each year. ELEM provides a unique brand of non-judgmental, innovative aid including group and individual therapy, mentoring, occupational and educational placement, and vocational training. ELEM also operates a wide network of counseling and support centers, as well as a fleet of outreach vans that take to the streets to reach the hidden “children of the night”.

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