Collaboration with the Katholische Stiftungshochschule München – KSH München (University of Applied Sciences, Munich)

In 2020, the Department of Social Work hosted a group of colleagues from KSH in a visit to see first-hand the services provided to children of asylum seekers from Africa in the southern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv. In November 2022, a second visit was arranged for these faculty members along with their graduate social work students, which included a trip to Beit Ruth, a village for young women and girls at risk and a visit to YVC, where they met with professors and students from the department and discussed issues related to multicultural social work. They also met with peers studying Organizational Development and Consulting and with the initiators of the “Academic Puzzle” project, who presented its program to bring together Arab and Jewish students. The group was also hosted in the college’s television studio.

Plans for 2023-2024

• Hosting of KSH faculty and students at YVC
• Fall semester course to include 3 zoom meetings between KSH and YVC social work students, in which they will discuss the topic “Culturally Sensitive Social Work.” The final paper in the course will be based on the learning from these encounters.