The National School for Rehabilitation, Integration and Recovery in Mental Health was established in 2011, at the Ono Academic Center, and operates under the supervision and funding of the Mental Health Division, Ministry of Health. The school conducts courses and training for a variety of rehabilitation professionals involved in the field of mental health rehabilitation (including professionals from various treatment professions, professional rehabilitation workers, people with knowledge from experience, family members and others) in order to advance their professional skills. The basis of learning is the belief in the ability of a person with a psychiatric disability to recover, integrate and live a meaningful life in his community. The basis of rehabilitation work is the concept that continuous learning and the development of knowledge are the core of rehabilitation work. Therefore, in addition to courses and training, the school is engaged in the promotion, expansion and marketing of learning on the subject of mental health rehabilitation in Israel and abroad. The school is engaged in monitoring, evaluating and providing feedback on the various training programs that take place there.

The school's goal is to instill the values of rehabilitation, integration and recovery. To build, develop and promote training and learning processes of knowledge, values, concepts and skills in the field of rehabilitation in mental health, to implement and assimilate interventions that promote recovery, for the audience of candidates, families, professionals and rehabilitation workers. The school maintains collaborations with a wide range of stakeholders, academic institutions in Israel and abroad and bodies supporting rehabilitation and recovery, and will expand the collaborations in the coming years. In its activities in recent years, the school addresses multiculturalism and holds special courses and workshops for Arab and Haredi society.

The school will continue to operate in an up-to-date format, which will be reflected in courses and workshops tailored to the development of innovative specialized roles for people with knowledge from experience, courses tailored to rehabilitation work with populations with unique characteristics, and courses designed for the professional development of rehabilitation workers.

In the current school year, 6 courses from all school courses will be taught on an online learning platform that will allow many rehabilitation workers from peripheral areas and sectoral companies to participate in the Rehabilitation School's courses, and benefit from professional learning that promotes rehabilitation and recovery.

The school's courses operate in two main divisions:

Training courses for specific roles in the community mental health rehabilitation system, intended for holders of various roles in the mental health rehabilitation system in Israel, such as: basic training for rehabilitation unit managers, training for service providers with knowledge from experience who work, or plan to work, as service providers in the mental health rehabilitation system, training for rehabilitation coordinators, the practical knowledge from experience course, training for rehabilitation instructors.

Rehabilitation -therapeutic practice courses in rehabilitation and recovery work in mental health , such as: operating and implementing an illness management and recovery (IMR) program as an evidence-based intervention in mental health rehabilitation, the basic principles of DBT intervention, Dynamic Cognitive Intervention (DCI), young people and the elderly: theory, research and practice in accompanying young people in recovery processes, rehabilitation work with people dealing with mental and cognitive disabilities.

In addition, the school maintains:

Courses for training parents, family members and caregivers : Keshet course, for communication in a cognitive-dynamic way, which teaches family members effective communication within and outside the family, and Keshet facilitator courses. In addition, in the coming years we intend to develop additional courses according to the needs of family members.

Short-term workshops on various topics : During the school year, focused workshops are held on topics relevant to the period and the rehabilitation work. For example: a workshop on strengthening mental resilience in rehabilitation relationships, applying the prism of loss and grief in rehabilitation in mental health, a workshop for new employees in the rehabilitation system, a workshop on bibliotherapy as a promoter of work processes in the field of rehabilitation, and more.

In the upcoming school year, the School of Rehabilitation will hold training for professional managers and senior employees on the subject of trauma-sensitive work with individuals, organizations and communities, following the events of October 7 and the Iron Sword War.

The training will be funded and supervised by the Ministry of Health and in cooperation with the Israeli Trauma Coalition.

The training will consist of 6 sessions, and will be held in several locations in Israel with the aim of training senior managers so that they can subsequently train their teams, and ensure the implementation of evidence-based practices for interventions with people, communities, and organizations directly or indirectly affected by trauma.

The Rehabilitation School will publish the trainings and registration methods later. Stay tuned for the announcements.

The school conducts its various studies and trainings, to the extent possible, in various areas of the country: at the Ono Academic Center, on the Haifa campus, and in Be'er Sheva. In addition, courses are held in additional locations as needed.

• Some of the courses are recognized as credit points for undergraduate studies in the Department of Education at the Ono Academic College, and in the Department of Health Sciences and Rehabilitation in the Community Mental Health track, details in the course content.

From 2011 to 2024, the school held courses and workshops attended by over 8,000 students, including diverse professionals involved in rehabilitation, professional rehabilitation professionals, consumers, and families.

We see appropriate and up-to-date training for professionals involved in psychiatric rehabilitation as a necessary condition for providing quality and effective services. The National School for Training in Rehabilitation, Integration and Recovery in Mental Health serves as a value, conceptual, theoretical and applied basis for training and guidance of professionals as rehabilitation professionals in the field of mental health, thus constituting a foundation for promoting and improving the quality of service for the well-being of the person dealing with a mental disability and his family members.

The management of the National School for Rehabilitation, Integration and Recovery in Mental Health:

Dr. Sarah Daas-Iraqi , Director

Ms. Orly Oren, Deputy Director

Dr. Yael Mazor, Development Manager

Ms. Tamar Dvora , Administrative Assistant

Ms. Yael Linsker, Administration and Finance Coordinator

Mental Health Division, Medical Division, Ministry of Health:

Ms. Batya Leidner, Deputy Head of the Mental Health Division for Rehabilitation.

Dr. Vered Balosh-Kleinman, Senior Manager of Quality, Planning, Research and Professional Development.