Dr. Yafit Sulimani-Aidan
Senior Lecturer 
Head, B.A studies
Bob Shapell School of Social Work
Tel Aviv University

My 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, my 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. I specifically focus on three main domains:

1. Outcomes & challenges during the transition to adulthood

2. Resilience and adjustment-promoting factors

3. Perspectives, needs, and challenges of formal and informal figures who mentor at-risk youth.

My goal is to shed light on the diversity in these vulnerable young adults’ experiences and explore their challenges and risks, as well as their resources and resilience during this defining period in their lives. I am especially interested in using multiple perspectives, taking into account multiple ecological spheres in order to identify the stressors and protective factors involved in at-risk young people’s transition to adulthood.  

By conducting intervention research, I seek to develop context-based theoretical knowledge that will inform practice, as well as the work of policymakers and professional service providers, with respect to intervention efforts and services designed for at-risk young adults.