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Youth Futures

A Mentorship Program Empowering Children and Teens

One of Israel’s leading positive-intervention programs, Youth Futures partners mentors with at-risk children for a long-term period of cooperative learning and growth. Mentors work with up to 16 children, focusing on personal, familial, social, and educational areas in an effort to give these kids the tools to navigate challenges and celebrate achievements in a constructive way.

Youth Futures not only gives children tools to succeed and empowers mentors to serve as role models, it also helps families to flourish. The program emphasizes full parental involvement and partnership—parents in participating communities receive help and guidance to access social services, manage their budgets, be more effective caregivers, and build emotionally supportive environments for their families.

 

In 2024, The Jewish Agency also announced the expansion of our long-standing Youth Futures positive intervention program, which serves ~13,600 at-risk children and their families through mentorship and support. To assist more participant families in Israel, the program will increase its number of mentors and presence in communities in need, and Youth Futures also received formal recognition as a national program from the Government of Israel.

“My son, Haim, had been in Youth Futures for a year already before October 7, and after the attacks, Ora, his Youth Futures mentor, called me every day. I’m so grateful to Ora and Youth Futures, to know beyond the financial, psychological, and emotional assistance, there are people out there who recognize and support us is incredibly uplifting.”
-Limor, Haim’s mother, and a resident of Ofakim who survived the massacre in her city on October 7.