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GRADCO
When our children graduate high school, they need guidance from their parents to help them figure out what comes next. As the young people of our homes graduate, there is quite often no parental or family support. The GRADCO program, provides recent and upcoming graduates the guidance and support to succeed, as they leave our EMUNAH HOMES and enter the next stage of their lives.
The Gradco program, at Emunah’s Ahuzat Sarah Children’s Home was developed in conjunction with Emunah Canada.
Not only does the GRADCO program offer guidance in making important decisions, but it helps create a healthy safe place where these graduates can always go when things go wrong. Thanks to the Gradco program graduates from Achuzat Sara know that they are not alone and they have a place to go back to if they need extra love and support.
No's Story
Against all odds, No., who has suffered from a severe eating disorder throughout her early childhood and during her last year at Achuzat Sara, has left the Home in 2023 after having taken all her matriculation exams with success.
The skilled and committed girl was strongly supported by her school's director Hanna.
With help from Gradco directors Oshra and Rinat, she was accepted as a national service girl assisting at a kindergarten in Haifa and was also granted supervised housing. As part of Oshra's commitment to our graduates, she visited No on Purim to bring her mishloah manot and found her content and seemingly in control of her new life - she had even started to take driving lessons.
No felt sheltered and supported by Oshra and Hanna and had decided to live as far away from her unsettling mother as possible. A one week stay at her mother's house in Jerusalem during Pesach vacation changed everything. No, is an only child to her mother who lives by herself (there is no father in the picture) and the relationship has always been destructive and abusing. Following her visit, things began to fall apart. No has slowly but surely fallen back into a deep depression and surrendered once again to her eating disorder.
With the help and guidance of Oshra and Rinat, No is being admitted to a psychiatric hospital to get the treatment she needs to recover from her eating disorder and depression. They will be with her every step of the way.