Ulpanat Dolev’s 22 years of experience and success in working with at-risk teenage girls in the  Binyamin Region of Israel has not gone unnoticed in other communities.

In 2007, the Welfare Department of the Municipality of Ashdod asked Ulpanat Dolev to administer and mentor its teen crisis management center, Bet Reshet, which works with teen boys and girls with substance-abuse problems. Services include vocational training, family therapy sessions, afternoon social activities and temporary shelter  for youths in emergency situations.

 A recent program undertaken by Ulpanat Dolev in Ashdod is Bayit Cham (A Warm Home), which provides at-risk teen girls, ages 13-17, with a warm lunch and a safe, stress-free place for them to meet after school for lessons and therapy.

The latest project launched by Ulpanat Dolev in Ashdod is Bet Bogrot, a program for high school graduates where eight girls share  an apartment under the supervision of a house mother and social worker.  This transition home offers a secure haven for those girls not quite ready to enter society independently.

And this past year, Ashdod’s Welfare Department asked Ulpanat Dolev to establish Bet Dolev - a “mishpachton” - a group home for 12 young at-risk children, ages 6-12, who have been removed by the courts from their abusive biological families in the Ashkelon district.

Ulpanat Dolev is applying the same expertise on behalf of Ashdod and Ashkelon’s troubled youths that has earned it Israel’s Ministry of Education’s highest achievement award  for its education and rehabilitation work with high-risk teenage girls in Dolev.