Pele Yoetz Center was founded and operates with the blessing and guidance of Gedolei Hador shlit”a. The Center, under the auspices of Hagaon Harav Dovid Levy shlit”a, is a multifaceted world of chinuch that provides a wide range of professional services in the realms of Torah-based chinuch and family life.
Throughout three decades, Pele Yoetz has dispensed vital aid and support to thousands of adults, adolescent and children in the Torah-observant sector. Our Departments offer a broad range of services including professional evaluations, counseling and support to children, adolescents and adults navigating spiritual, academic and emotional challenges in life.
Pele Yoetz Center handles hundreds of cases annually ranging from pedagogical issues in the early childhood years, dilemmas and challenges among adolescents, and domestic conflict. Our faculty works in close collaboration with professional therapists, among them veteran psychiatrists, psychologists and counselors, to provide our clients with the optimal solutions to their challenges.
One of the primary challenges that we face in ingraining public awareness of the significance of professional tools and therapy and importance of training new therapists in the charedi community is fear and suspicion of professionals from ‘the outside world.’ Furthermore, in order to feel comfortable exposing one’s domestic and personal challenges, a client requires deep trust and confidence in his therapist as well as the promise of absolute discretion. These are both reasons why Pele Yoetz, which is organic to charedi society, is so effective in supporting the members of our community. Our efforts to elevate people from situations of distress and despair and lead them back on track have earned us the wholehearted endorsement and approbation of our Gedolei Hador shlit”a, and the implicit trust of mechanchim and charedi community at large.
About Pele Yoetz
Our Activities An Overview
Chinuch Hotline
Pele Yoetz’s Chinuch Call Center avails a free hotline service to families in distress. Our Call Center is staffed by a professional faculty of veteran educators and counselors who accept a steady stream of calls from identified or anonymous callers. Operators offer prompt first-response care in the form of professional counseling and guidance and then navigate callers to the right parties who will provide them with the ideal, all-embracing response and solutions to their challenges.
Shalom
Bayis
Our Shalom Bayis Department supports hundreds of couples suffering friction or conflict that threatens the nuclear family system. We likewise fund vital counseling for couples on the brink of divorce in order to minimize tension, facilitate positive communication, and reduce permanent damage to the family. Our counselors have successfully aided dozens of couples who were seriously contemplating divorce restore harmony to their homes by teaching fundamental skills of positive communication, mutual understanding and compassion. Pele Yoetz’s Shalom Bayis Department handles cases from Orthodox communities around the world. Baruch Hashem, we’ve spared many families avoidable anguish and restored peace and happiness to their homes and lives.
Al Pi
Darko
Pele Yoetz Center’s flagship chinuch project Al Pi Darko grants children a comprehensive educational support system that encompasses professional evaluations; mentors; paramedical, didactic, emotional and educational therapists; and long-term monitoring and follow-up. This remarkable system successfully isolates a child’s weaknesses and challenges and offers him customized tools, skills and support that enables him to work through and surmount his challenges while strengthening himself academically and emotionally. In the past years, Al Pi Darko’s pioneering educational program has been successfully implemented in dozens of schools throughout Yerushalayim, supporting hundreds of kids-at-risk, keeping them safe within the system, and promoting their success in the academic, family and social spheres.
Yeshivah Placement
Pele Yoetz’s Yeshivah Placement Department helps young bachurim who have completed their studies in charedi elementary schools find an appropriate yeshivah framework that meets their academic, disciplinary, and spiritual level and campaigns for their acceptance into these schools. Over the years, we’ve placed hundreds of young men who were not initially accepted into the yeshivos of their choice or who encountered difficulties in the course of the conventional application and registration process in yeshivos that are right for them. Our commitment to each talmid doesn’t end once he’s officially ‘in,’ but continues throughout the ensuing months as he enters his new yeshivah and settles in academically and socially. Every year, Pele Yoetz’s Yeshivah Placement Department services approximately 200 adolescents of assorted ages and backgrounds.
Attention Disorders
Parents whose children suffer from attention deficit disorders know that Pele Yoetz is available to help them cope with their challenges. Our Department arranges professional evaluations and referrals to medical specialists while offering helpful tools and guidance to parents. We likewise train educational faculties and host teacher-training seminars to guide educators in coping and effectively handling students who suffer from these challenges.
Educational Courses & Instruction
As an integral part of our efforts to ingrain vital skills and tools in all realms of chinuch and prevent negative patterns and cycles, Pele Yoetz sponsors dozens of annual courses and seminars for educators, counselors and parents in order to help them cope effectively and professionally with their challenges in chinuch. In the past years, attendance at our courses, seminars and lectures has grown exponentially, inspiring and empowering thousands of parents and educators who unanimously attest to the effective tools and skills that they gained, and the success that they met thereafter.
Pele Yoetz Institute
Pele Yoetz Publishing disseminates a wealth of informative and inspirational content based on lectures and essays by our esteemed Nasi Hagaon Harav Dovid Levy shlit”a. Our Institute prints and distributes columns and essays and sponsors interviews on a wide array of chinuch topics on frum media channels. We likewise publish a monthly virtual chinuch magazine that reaches thousands of subscribers. In the past years, we’ve published two sefarim based on the lectures and writings of Hagaon Harav Dovid Levy shlit”a: Shalom Banayich on chinuch habanim and Shalom V’reus on topics of shalom bayis.