Reported in today’s The Jerusalem Post, the Haruv Children’s Campus is due to open at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday, 9 January 2017. This is a new global child abuse recovery centre that combines research and treatment methodologies across an array of disciplines. According to Prof Asher Ben Arieh, director of the Haruv Institute, the campus “will house seven organisations working jointly on all aspects of identifying, diagnosing and treating neglected children. It will provide an holistic, child-centred approach to treating, studying and addressing the global issue of child abuse, and creates new opportunities for groundbreaking collaboration between institutes and organisations in Israel and from around the world. Further information: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Jerusalem-opens-multidisciplinary-child-abuse-recovery-center-477802
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