Prof. Yafit Sulimani-Aidan is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University, Bob Shapell School of Social Work. Her work is resiliency-focused and based in the strengths and assets that enable at risk young adults, especially care leavers to overcome challenges and thrive. Also, her work focus on the experiences and factors that can help case workers and mentors better support care leaver and other groups of at-risk young adults during the transition to adulthood.
Resilience; Future orientation; mentoring; transition to adulthood, at risk youth; care leavers.
As an intervention-researcher Prof. Sulimani- Aidan acts as an academic advisor for several innovative and national programs and is leading longitudinal researchers including a mentoring program to support care leavers that was applied in residential care placements- supervised by the Ministry of Education; and the national program for at-risk young adults in Israel supervised by the Ministry of Welfare ("Yated").
