Individual Weekly Therapy Sessions: Each girl meets weekly on an individual basis with her social worker for therapy; girls who require more intensive therapy met up to three times a week. These sessions are devoted to individual rehabilitation programs, evaluating progress made, and working out any new or ongoing issues. These sessions provided an opportunity to evaluate to the progress or regression of each individual participant.

Group Sessions: Social workers lead group therapy sessions each week, allowing the residents to learn from each other’s experiences and to offer encouragement to their peers.

Communications Workshop: The girls study film making at the Ma’ale School of Television, Film and the Arts Video Course-Media Communications. The girls learn about cameras, sound and lighting, makeup, as well as how to write screenplays, and the process of film editing. This course serves as a creative outlet for all the girls as they produced a short film. Providing the girls with technical film making skills gives them an additional avenue for self-expression. Further, learning about and using high tech equipment, and seeing a project grow from an idea into a completed product gave their self-confidence an important boost.

Positive Body Image Therapeutic Workshops: Many of the girls at the hostel have suffered from sexual abuse and experience a myriad of outcomes as a result: from low self-esteem, to very poor body image, to eating disorders, and even to self-mutilation behaviors. Our goal is to provide the girls a multi-disciplinary approach including individual therapy, therapeutic workshops and athletic activity to offer the tools and creative outlets to express their self-image as individuals and women in a positive manner. The various female teachers served as role models who embraced their own femininity in positive ways.

Weekly Movie Club: Nigunim staff chooses suitable movies with family life and suitable healthy relationships as major themes (including both comedies and dramas) in addition to topical themes during the year based on the Jewish and Israeli year cycle. Discussions with the counselors and Sheirut Leumi (Voluntary National Service) follows the screenings.

Therapeutic Horseback Riding: Girls with severe Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) are offered therapeutic riding. Learning to care for the horses and acquiring the necessary skills for riding greatly contributed to their organizational abilities and self-confidence.

Therapeutic Dog: The Hostel is maintaining a pet dog for use as pet therapy and companionship for the girls. The girls find the dog a comfort in times of stress and enjoy taking him for walks and sitting in the garden.