Home Treatment Program for Infants in the Israeli-Arab Commu

Acknowledgements Many people participated in the implementation of this program. First and foremost, the social workers at the Sindian Center, Sogod Kaden and Wafa’a Abu Zemiro, and Professional Health Carers Nedal Gera, Asma’a Issa, Anhar A’amer, Ibrahim Kora’an, Dima Jebali, Nehaia Kanbatia, Lina Jebali, Mariam Rian, and Ala’a Rabus, who operated the program and contributed their professional knowledge and experience to us and to the families. Thank you to the nursing staff at the Well Baby Clinic in Qalansawe, who helped identify the families and made the initial contact with them. Thank you to Lili Levinton, Professional Deputy Director of Beit Issie Shapiro, who helped formulate the idea, and to Shosh Kaminsky and Heli Peretz, who documented the program and helped in creating this guidebook. We would like to thank the families who participated in the pilot program, opened their homes and their hearts to us, and enabled us to upgrade and shape the guidebook so that it can form the basis for developing similar programs in other locations. And finally, a special thank you to the donors, the Shepard Broad Foundation, who made the necessary resources available to implement the program and create the guidebook.