IUM - Innovation in Rehabilitation by Shekulo Tov

07/05/2024

Take a look at our 2023 Impact Report!

2023 hasn’t ended easy for us…

However- we kept a transition rate of 35% |
Record of 512 partnering Employers | 162 units across Israel | Record of 8,800 service users | A brand new index ensuring meaningful vocational practice throughout training

Producing the report requires we pause and reflect - to gather data, summarize, analyze, and see how our team and service users influenced and contributed to social change.

Enjoy the full report here:

Take a look at our 2023 Impact Report! 2023 hasn’t ended easy for us… However- we kept a transition rate of 36% | Record of 512 partnering Employers | 162 units across Israel | Record of 8,800 service users | A brand new index ensuring meaningful vocational practice throughout training Producing...

02/04/2024

From Tokyo to Tel Aviv - improving community-based services for people with psychosocial disabilities.

Last week, we had the privilege of hosting the director and two managers from Startline Japan.
We met Startline (株式会社スタートライン（障害者雇用支援）)Startline during a presentation we gave three months ago at the "Disability and Work" Conference organized by the Nippon Foundation (日本財団) The Nippon Foundation (日本財団) in Tokyo. (We met the Nippon Foundation at the 2023 Zero ProjectZero Project Conference in Vienna!)

Startline assists over 1900 people with disabilities in their employment journeys in over 37 community-based locations around Tokyo. In our online meetings we were impressed by their dedication and innovative approach.

During the four-day visit to Israel- we saw the impact of our 162 Integrative Units in increasing the transition for people with complex psychosocial disabilities from training centers and sheltered workshops into mainstream employment (from 1% to 35% transition).

Our visit included insightful discussions with our team and service users in the HQ and units, meetings with two of our 500 partnering employers (Israel Museum, Jerusalem and CASTRO Hoodies הודיס ), and a productive session with the Ministry of Health's community mental rehabilitation department.

We realized that despite linguistic and cultural differences, the DNA of both organizations is quite similar. We want to break barriers and ensure a zero-exclusion society and workforce.

We will continue our discussion on how to adapt and implement the IUM in Japan.

Arigato and Toda! 🇮🇱 ❤️ 🇯🇵

Shinri Hasegawa
Ofer Cohen
Tal Neuberger
שכולו טוב
סיפור חוזר
דנדשה - Dandasha

07/03/2024

We are thrilled to announce that we have won another award for our work in 2023.

Our SAME model for social inclusion for people with disabilities won The International Award for Universal Design (IAUD).

IAUD identifies services, programs, and models that use universal design and enable people with different barriers to optimally consume services. The competition is held for the 30th year and is held in seven different categories.

Last month, the social inclusion division won the silver prize in the tourism/accessible culture/transportation category for developing online inclusive platforms (for our new websites for Yalla, Sababa, and Sawa services) for people with disabilities.

This is the fourth year in a row that the Shekolo Tov Group has won the award, and we are proud to be leading in universal and inclusive designs.

More information about our SAME model can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pR6bT9BPY

For our community leisure activities in Hebrew, visit here:
https://yallatime.org.il/about/

In Arabic visit here: https://sawatime.org.il/

14/01/2024

Today, we mark 100 days without them... Without 136 of us.

Elad Or – The manager of our Good God enterprise is still waiting for the return of his brother - Dror Or, from captivity. Dror’s wife was murdered and their three children were also kidnapped from their beds on 07/10 - but released in a deal.

Dror Or. In Hebrew, Dror means “Freedom,” and “Or” means light. What a name full of optimism. Last week, he celebrated his birthday in the captivity of a terrorist organization, with no visits from the Red Cross. In his life, Dror is a cheesemaker at the “Kibbutz Beery Dairy” that produces handmade cheeses.



Dror – Today, we will mark 100 days in captivity. For 100 days, you haven't enjoyed the “Freedom” that is the essence of your name.

Together with your brother Elad, we decided to celebrate your birthday the way you would celebrate it - with lots of delicious dairy food. What brings back memories and closeness more than nostalgic tastes? The taste would only be the same once you return to your loved ones, to your place.

We look forward to tasting the original taste of all your creations, from the unique cheeses to your quiches and soups that we have tried to imitate.

We are wishing you days of ‘Dror’. Until then, waiting for you at home, everyone!💔

שכולו טוב

08/01/2024

We are so proud to be awarded with the EASPD Brussels !

27/11/2023

In the southern city of Beer Sheva, you can find some of the best dog walkers in our Good Dog Vocational Engagement Enterprise.

D lives in Arad and regularly commutes by bus to Be'er Sheva for her vocational engagement training as a dog walker. It is over an hour's ride each way. These days, during the war, commuting is less suitable for her.

With the support of her area manager, Yossi, D joined a volunteer organization in the nearer Dead Sea hotels, where many evacuated families stay following Hamas's deadly attacks on their homes, villages, and communities on October 7th.

Dogs also need to be thought of when helping families cope with their new war routine!
In the picture- D is walking Kokos from Kisifov, just after walking Goi from Bari 🐶♥️

There aren't many words that can describe these days - so we only want to thank each of the team members, service users, and stakeholders for their partnership, creativity, and spirit.

In this case - the love for dogs can motivate and strengthen the spirits of individuals and communities!

To learn more about Good Dog click here:
https://iumodel.org/our-units/

שכולו טוב
כלב טוב - שרות הולכת כלבים חברתי

18/09/2023

Come to meet us in Helsinki!

Next month, we will attend the EASPD Brussels annual conference, “Enabling Social Innovation”.

As part of a panel on the second day, we will present the Shekulo Tov שכולו טוב group methods to foster Innovation from Within.

Our Intrapreneurship model has four approaches that have helped us develop our award-winning IUModel by Shekulo Tov and the SAME Model.

In each of the four approaches, we will share tools for proactive management that foster innovation and examples of innovative practices that have been implemented through this approach.

The EASPD conference is an excellent opportunity to learn new practices and know-how from European mind-like organizations.

Ophir Peleg

To witness innovation in the social services sector, we need more than just a creative idea! Organisations need models that can address key topics to facilitate innovation.

And here is where our panel on Day 2 of the Helsinki conference comes in!🥳

Aisling Duffy from , Ophir Peleg from שכולו טוב, Eleonore Ségard from FIRAH and Martin Konrad from Neuva Network will be in Helsinki to talk about organisational models for innovation!

Join us on 12-13 October! 👇
https://lnkd.in/eQfPThC

09/08/2023

We were privileged to collaborate with the MEET organization! 🤩

The Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (MEET) mission is to educate and empower tomorrow's most promising Arabic and Israeli leaders to take action toward creating positive social and political impact in the Middle East.

In collaboration with MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the organization runs an intensive three-year program where high school students learn technology and computer science, business administration, and leadership skills.

As part of the program, various organizations, mainly social organizations, including the Shekulo Tov group, have presented high school students with multiple challenges they face.
On our behalf, the high school students were presented with challenges of our leisure and social inclusion division and our Dandasha chain. The challenges focused on offering rehabilitation services to service users from Arab society.

Inbal Boaz, our director of leisure and social inclusion in the group, and Avital Tabor, director of the Dandasha chain, participated in the ceremony where the students presented thier solution for the group, followed by our team's constructive feedback.

We enjoyed learning from the participants and hearing about the solutions from their point of view! Thank you for the opportunity 🙏🧡

31/07/2023

Our Haifa Job Fair took place less than a month ago with the participation of over 250 service users and over 40 companies that presented job opportunities - and we already have success stories to share!

Last week we received the happy news that D (she requested anonymity), Service User from Rebooks, was invited to an interview at A.S. Nursing and later was hired for a new job in the company !😊

We wish good luck to other service users who were already invited for job interviews following the job fair 🧡 !

25/07/2023

Watch our webinar!!!
Data-Driven Decision-Making in Social Services Dealing with the Employment of People with Disabilities.

How does mapping our service users' characteristics, backgrounds, and expectations during the pre-service stage - help improve training and programs?

How can we ensure training in sheltered workshops and community-based training centers is meaningful, relevant, and maximizes pathways into the open labor market?

How do we measure meaningful placement with mainstream employers, and how it helps us design our training and improve employers' relations and our service users' career development?

Watch our mutual webinar with the EASPD Brussels and listen to insights from various aspects such as managerial, R&D, vocational, and stakeholder relations.

https://youtu.be/NrmljzBIBp8

שכולו טוב
Hagar Aloush
Yael Wienstien
Tal Neuberger
Ophir Peleg

11/07/2023

Yesterday we had the privilege of hosting a delegation of social and business entrepreneurs from Morocco as part of their course by MASHAV Carmel Training Center.

Our guests came from various ventures and hubs that promote social and business entrepreneurship in Morocco. They visited two of our ‘green’ Vocational Engagane Enterprises - Dandasah and Rebooks.

Dandasha is a chain of second-hand boutiques for women’s clothing, and Rebooks s a chain of second-hand bookstores. Both hold websites and selling points around Israel. Service users are trained in online and onsite sales, inventory management, design, and customer service. Hundreds of them already work in mainstream employment.

All of the while protecting the environment:
Rebooks saves over 550K books annually, equivalent to 33,121 trees. Dandasha reuses 108,000 clothes annually, which saves about 800 million liters of water annually.

We are looking forward to continuing the dialogue!

MASHAV Carmel Training Center
Social Innovation Lab - UM6P
שכולו טוב
סיפור חוזר
דנדשה - Dandasha