Our Work
Building Israel’s Collective Response to Trauma and Mental Health
No single organization can meet Israel’s mental health and trauma challenge alone. ICAR Collective helps move the field from fragmented response to coordinated, data-informed collective action. We connect NGOs, government ministries, health providers, funders, researchers, and innovators to identify needs, map gaps, align resources, and help effective solutions grow.
How We Work
Our work is organized around three core functions:
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Engage and Map
Listen deeply. Map what exists. Surface what’s needed.
We engage with the field to map ecosystem, surface insights, and understand what’s working. We listen to providers, community voices, system leaders, and experts. We look at the full picture to learn what is possible, where the system is stuck and where it can move.
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Convene and Share
Create space for knowledge sharing
and collective thinking.
We act as a neutral platform to bring together people who don’t usually sit at the same table—government officials, NGOs, funders, academics, and innovators. Together, we explore what’s possible when sectors align.
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Build
Turn ideas into pilots.
Scale what works.
We bring together promising solutions aligned with national priorities and help scale what works. The goal isn’t another pilot but durable change: policies, programs, and partnerships that are embedded into the system and built to last.
Our Projects
From insight to action
ICAR’s projects grow out of the needs we hear from the field and the opportunities we identify through mapping, convening, and shared learning. Each initiative is designed to strengthen Israel’s trauma and mental health response, not as a standalone effort, but as part of a broader ecosystem of care, knowledge, and resilience.
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Engage and Map
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[Add name] Mapping the Trauma Healing Ecosystem
ICAR has developed a public mapping platform that currently includes hundreds of trauma and mental health NGOs operating across Israel. The goal is to make the ecosystem more visible, accessible, and actionable.
By mapping organizations, programs, populations served, and areas of activity, the platform helps decision makers better identify gaps, duplication, opportunities for collaboration, and areas where resources could accelerate impact.
Organizations working in trauma healing and mental health are invited to claim their profiles, update organization and program information, add new initiatives, needs and opportunities, and help ensure the map reflects the field as accurately as possible.
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Mapping Mental Health Technologies
In partnership with Start-Up Nation Central and Bezyl, ICAR has mapped mental health technology companies connected to Israel. This mapping highlights emerging innovation across areas such as digital therapeutics, AI-driven mental health tools, trauma-focused treatment technologies, prevention, and early detection.
The goal is to better understand Israel’s mental health technology landscape and identify where innovation can help meet urgent field needs. This work also helps surface gaps between promising technologies and the clinical, regulatory, and implementation pathways needed to bring them into real-world use.
Companies, researchers, investors, and field partners are invited to share additional Israeli mental health technologies or international solutions interested in entering Israel.
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Build
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National Psychoeducation Campaign – HRU
ICAR is working with 30 partner organizations to increase public mental health literacy, normalize early help-seeking, and reduce stigma around seeking support.
Developed in response to widespread psychological distress following October 7, the campaign provides accessible, evidence-based information about common trauma responses, practical coping strategies, and where to turn for support. By strengthening public understanding of mental health and reducing stigma, the initiative supports prevention, resilience, and earlier help-seeking, helping reduce pressure on mental health professionals.
The campaign brings together partners from academia, HMOs, NGOs, philanthropy, and frontline organizations. It is informed by a 2025 baseline survey of 915 Israelis and expert-led content developed with 28 mental health professionals.
The next phase will help communities, schools, municipalities, NGOs, workplaces, and frontline organizations access, adapt, and share psychoeducational materials for their own audiences. Materials will be made available online, in print, and through person-to-person workshops.
Organizations that have developed psychoeducational materials, or that want to adapt and use existing materials in their communities, are invited to collaborate.
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Building Continuity of Care for Reservists
Following the Reservists Roundtable, which brought together NGO and public sector leaders, ICAR is working to develop infrastructure that can improve continuity of care for reservists.
The goal is to support soldiers across the full recovery journey — from first contact and eligibility support to appropriate referrals, follow-up care, and long-term healing.
Potential components include rights eligibility support, a matchmaking platform to connect soldiers with appropriate services, a unified intake questionnaire to reduce repetition across organizations, and shared quality standards that build trust and alignment among participating partners.
This work reflects a central ICAR priority: helping the system move from disconnected services to coordinated pathways of care.
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Building Israel’s Trauma-Trained Workforce Database
One of the major challenges in Israel’s trauma response is understanding the capacity of the mental health workforce. ICAR is developing a national database to map evidence-based trauma training programs across Israel and the therapists who have completed them.
This initiative will help answer critical questions: How many trauma-trained therapists are currently available? Where are they located? Which populations and languages can they serve? What gaps remain in workforce capacity?
These insights will inform the next phase of strengthening Israel’s trauma care workforce and help ensure that training, funding, and service development are guided by real data.
Professionals and organizations across the ecosystem are invited to share this initiative with therapists trained in trauma who may wish to be included in the database.
From Collective Insight to Collective Action
Across all of our work, ICAR’s role is to help the field see itself more clearly, work together more effectively, and build solutions that can last.
What happens next will not be shaped by any single program, organization, or intervention. It will depend on our ability to act together across sectors, disciplines, and points of view, with urgency, clarity, and shared purpose.
Interested in partnering, sharing data, joining a roundtable, or contributing to one of these initiatives?
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ICAR is addressing today’s trauma healing challenges, while preempting tomorrow’s crises. To partner or support, please reach out.
