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2022-08-08T12:32:14.296Z


The first victims of the lack of training in the hostel system are the most vulnerable population in Israel - the mentally challenged. The instructors, whose exact number is unknown to the ministry, are indeed dedicated, but the terms of employment do not encourage them to stay, let alone go for training at their own expense. "With NIS 31 an hour, it's hard to last"


"Shame": only 1.5% of the guides in the mental health hostels were trained for their job

The first victims of the lack of training in the hostel system are the most vulnerable population in Israel - the mentally challenged.

The instructors, whose exact number is unknown to the ministry, are indeed dedicated, but the terms of employment do not encourage them to stay, let alone go for training at their own expense.

"With NIS 31 an hour, it's hard to last"

Merav Cohen

08/08/2022

Monday, August 8, 2022, 3:20 p.m. Updated: 3:24 p.m.

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"Doing holy work".

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In 2012, the Ministry of Health began conducting dedicated trainings and trainings for the rehabilitation instructors in the mental health hostels, to encourage instructors to stay on the job and train them for the difficult tasks they face during their work.

However, in the last decade, only 1,110 instructors completed the training, Vala learned.

The Ministry of Health does not know for sure how many instructors work in its services, but according to the estimates of the professionals there are about 7,000 instructors per year, so the total number of instructors trained for the position is about 1.5% of all instructors in these years - 70 thousand in total.



The system of mental health hostels, which belongs to the Ministry of Health, suffers from a severe personnel shortage and the instructors change frequently.

The instructors usually arrive without any training and there are almost no threshold conditions for accepting the position.

The first victims of this are the most vulnerable population in Israel - the mentally challenged themselves who live in hostels run by highly dedicated guides, but without any training.



In order to train the teams and instructors, in 2011 the School for Rehabilitation, Integration and Recovery in Mental Health was established and began to train instructors in 2012, however the threshold conditions for receiving eligibility for training are not relevant to the instructors' target population.

The guide must work at least a year and a half at the hostel, while the average employment of a guide is one year in total.

The instructor pays for the course out of his own money - and at the end of it he does not receive any additional salary at all.

Although most of the instructors do not meet the threshold requirements for the course - but no financial benefit is expected even for those who meet them.

"A service so essential."

Toma-Soliman (photo: official website, Joint List media)

The guide's role is to accompany the mentally challenged in daily activities, such as tidying and cleaning, sleeping and feeding.

In difficult cases, the instructors should accompany them closely and make sure they don't hurt themselves.

As part of their role, the instructors are also required to be a therapeutic model for the contestants and teach them positive interpersonal sanctification and control of frustrations and anger.



Amit Goldberg, who has worked for two years as a guide at the Mental Health Hostel in Tel Aviv, passed the course successfully. He explained why most of his friends do not pass it.

The only and most important return I get from the course is the knowledge and abilities in front of the patients.

It didn't raise my salary, because the only thing that raises my salary is seniority.

Thanks to this course, I perceive myself as a professional with authority and abilities, and I did not come to the position of instructor without a choice.

In practice, most instructors leave very quickly because our salary is very low - NIS 31 per hour, so it is very difficult to last in the profession.

The managers do not offer the possibility of training to their instructors at all.

You can say that the instructors at the hostel are like a carpenter who didn't learn to be a carpenter one day, who trained him to be there?"



The chairperson of the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women and Gender Equality, MK Aida Toma-Soliman (the joint list) said that "rehabilitation instructors who are struggling with mental health do holy work, but are paid a pittance. The Ministry of Health should be ashamed of the answers it gives. They say they care about health The mind and the rehabilitation guides for the mentally challenged, and insist that this all-important service has not been privatized, but they don't even know how many rehabilitation guides are employed in their service, what standards are required for rehabilitation guides, how many standards are actually staffed, and what are the conditions of the workers. It is a shame that only 1,110 out of tens of thousands of rehabilitation guides Those employed in the field received dedicated training as required. It's time for the ministries of health and welfare to take responsibility, and those who spend days and nights treating the mentally challenged will be properly trained and receive an adequate salary."



The Ministry of Health responded:

"Thousands of rehabilitation instructors work in the rehabilitation frameworks for people with disabilities of the Ministry of Health, including housing, employment and social frameworks. Every year, about 100 rehabilitation instructors study at the rehabilitation school in a training course dedicated to this position and sometimes even more. In addition, the employees of the rehabilitation system participate in additional courses within the school, such as intervention courses and various workshops, in order to be able to provide the necessary accompaniment. In addition, the main difficulty in all systems that treat people with mental, intellectual disabilities, autism and disabilities, is a lack of manpower. The Ministry of Health is aware of the lack of rehabilitation guides and these days is working to find solutions and correct this situation. In addition, the control teams at the district psychiatrists' bureaus conduct periodic controls in these frameworks and check compliance with the manpower requirements according to the required standards and procedures."

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