2024  Nechama Hoch, Director of Preschool Network, participating in leadership course at Haifa University under the auspices of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy  and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzlia (IDC).

2024  Treating Women and Adolescent Girls

2024  Outreach Evening for teachers from regular preschools

2023  Treating War Trauma

2023  Parents Week at Arugot

2023  Pnina Berkowitz, Director of Arugot, participating in leadership course at Haifa University under the auspices of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy  at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzlia (IDC).

2022  Opening of Developmental Preschool taking a culturally sensitive approach for Yiddish speaking children

2022  Renovating Pet Corner for Animal Assisted Therapy

2021  Establishing Therapy Garden on roof of Therapy Center for Nature Therapy

2020  Opening 5th special ed. preschool in September 2020, located in new building allocated by Haifa Municipality

2020  Celebrating 30th Anniversary – 3 decades of service and commitment to the community

2019  Expanding project:”Jumpstarting Preschoolers – Assessment and Early Intervention”

2018  Establishing “Friends of Arugot” Steering Committee

2018  Dr. Gail Suskin, Therapy Coordinator, lectured at two International Conferences in China, at the Yan’an Vocational & Technical College and in Shenzhen on the topic of  “Integrating the Creative Arts in Early Childhood Education”

2018  Establishing project in conjunction with Haifa University in regular preschools: “Jumpstarting Preschoolers – Assessment and Early Intervention”

2018  Opening 4th Developmental Preschool

2018  Reopening project in Shelter for Battered Women, in conjunction with Haifa University – therapies for women in shelter

2018  Students from Haifa University specialize at Arugot

2018  Opening a second branch of Arugot in Afula

2018  Music Therapy

2017  Dr. Gail Suskin, Therapy Coordinator, lectured at an International Conference in Bijie, Guizhou – China at the Bijie Preschool Education College on the topic of Early Childhood Education

2017  Participation in ECARTE International Conference in Poland – “Traditions in Transition” – New Articulations in the Arts Therapies

2017 Establishing  “Open Space” Forum for professional multi-disciplinary discussion

2017 Groups for School Readiness

2017  Couples Therapy

2016 Opening afterschool program for Developmental Preschools

2016  Sand Tray Therapy incorporated into all types of treatments

2016  Introducing The Greenspan Floortime Approach – D.I.R. to Developmental Preschools

2016  “Sharing can be Healing” –  A range of Group Therapies for children and adults including – Social Skills Groups, School Readiness Groups, Support Groups for Parents

2016  Introducing ABA in Developmental Preschools (Applied Behavior Analysis)

2016  “My Precious Child” – project for mothers and their developmentally delayed children in Day Care Center

2016  Science Project in Alumot Developmental Preschool: “The Little Scientist”

2015  Announcing new name: Arugot Child and Family Development Center

2015  Didactic Remedial Therapies for children in Shelter for Battered Women sponsored by Rotary Moriah Branch

2015  Introducing Water Therapy

2014  Celebrating 25^th Anniversary

2013  Opening new, upgraded Snoezelen Room

2013  Children in Early Childhood Center receive emotional therapies from Haifa University students

2013  New approach: combining Occupational Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

2013  Shelters for Battered Women: Emotional Therapies for Women including parental guidance and dyad therapy (mother-child) in conjunction with Rotary Moriah Branch

2013  Opening third Developmental Preschool

2012  Woman to Woman

2012  Students from Haifa University do their practical work at Haifa Center 

2011  Launching: project for children in Haifa shelters for battered women

2011  Home Visitation Program

2011  Mentoring Program for boys who lack father figure at home in conjunction with “Big Brothers Big Sisters – Haifa”

2011  Further expansion of Ethiopian At-Risk Youth project to include expressive therapies

2010  Expanding co-operative ventures with a number of organizations, including: Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Rambam Health Care Campus, Bnei Zion Medical  Center, Haifa Women’s Crisis Shelter, Women For Women – The Haifa Shelter for Battered Women, Neve Sha’anan Community Cultural Center

2009  Open Day to celebrate 20th Anniversary

2009  Expanding Project for Ethiopian At-Risk Youth 

2008  Groups to enhance Social Skills

2008  Language Intensive Preschool for children with developmental delays in the area of speech and language. A second rent-free building granted for this purpose by the municipality.

2008  Prize for “Outstanding Contribution Education”

2008  Snoezelen Room Symposium – Germany

2007  Bridging Gaps for Ethiopian Immigrant Pupils

2007  Ma’on Shachar in conjunction with Elwyn Israel

2006  Treating War Trauma in Snoezelen Room for trauma victims in wake of the Second Lebanon War

2006  Animal Assisted Therapy

2005  Seminars and workshops for educators and parents

2004  Gardening Therapy

2004  Mo’adonit (after school framework) for Russian Immigrant At-Risk Youngsters

2003  Opening of Developmental Preschool for graduates of Integrated Day Care Center unable to be mainstreamed in regular frameworks

2001  William Trump Recognition Award

2000  Opening of the Snoezelen Room

2000  Establishing: Integrated Day Care Center for handicapped toddlers and their typically developing peers

1999  Today’s building – 16 Arlosoroff Street.
This rent-free building was allocated to us by the Haifa Municipality in recognition of the importance of our work in the local community. The building is a historic site,  designed by Alexander Berwald and built in 1930. Called Izkovitch House, it is named after Aliza and Dr. Yitzchak Izkovitch, one of the first Jewish physicians in Haifa and  one of the founders of the Israel Medical Association. The offices of the Community Committee were located in the building and after that, the Haifa Rabbinate until the end of the 1970’s.

1996 Music Therapy

1992  Introducing – Speech Therapy and Art Therapy

1991  Our second building – 4 Herzog Street

1990  Cornerstone Ceremony – 22 Bezalel Street

1990  Spreading the Word

1989  The Idea is Born: The Center was established in 1989 by Jeremiah Lubasch, MD, local pediatrician, as a non-profit to answer a need which he recognized within the local community.