Following popular demand to increase services offered by Al Pi Darko, project tutors were invited to attend an enrichment course and seminar on topics of chinuch and psychology—this time, with an emphasis on challenge prevention in adolescence through early intervention. The project and seminar are under the auspices of Pele Yoetz Center.
Rabbi Avraham Vitman, educational consultant and advisor, who serves as Project Director of Al Pi Darko describes that “This time, tutors were surprised to reveal that many, many problems affecting young men in their teens crop up already in their pre-adolescent years of ten or eleven. I believe that if educators had only possessed the knowledge and skills to resolve these problems earlier on, these boys would have been spared so much suffering.”
This is precisely why Al Pi Darko, a project of Pele Yoetz, works constantly to endow young children with important tools in the setting of their own schools, teaching them to cope with their challenges and create solutions without avoiding reality. Even if a hardship is not completely resolved, the goal is to teach the boys to confront it and deal with it.
In the framework of the seminar, tutors heard several fascinating speeches which introduced them to new methods of early intervention and advanced tools in this realm.
“A tendency to evade responsibility in younger years can develop later into a proclivity toward assorted addictions which merely dull the pain of the deeper problem that is at the root of the child’s aching soul,” explains a spokesperson for Pele Yoetz’s Al Pi Darko project. He then stressed the danger of allowing this behavioral pattern to continue and noted the significance of early evaluations.
The extensive professional knowledge and skills of Al Pi Darko’s tutoring staff has encouraged many parents to sign their children up for the program, resulting in a need for additional tutoring staff. If you or someone you know is interested in being part of this vital chinuch project, please e-mail Al Pi Darko.
As we enter a new year, Al Pi Darko aims to open new branches in additional chadarim and to expand current programs to include more children. In the near future, Pele Yoetz Center will be opening a training course for new tutors, and participants who complete the course successfully will be integrated into the project.
Simultaneously, Al Pi Darko is working to create a professional content and resource database that will be availed to the tutors and chadarim.
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