ELEM- Youth in Distress is Israel's premier nonprofit organization addressing at-risk youth. ELEM seeks to locate and rehabilitate these teens and young adults and reintegrate them as productive members of society. The teens ELEM meets face a broad range of distress from normative adolescent crises and school attrition through much more complex situations, including social and family issues, questions relating to sexual identity, religious identity, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, criminal behavior, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and homelessness. ELEM specializes in identifying the hardships facing young people in Israel, and in developing innovative and relevant responses tailored to different populations. Every night, thousands of teens and young adults roam public parks, town squares, hangouts, and hideouts. Volunteers and staff on ELEM's outreach vans offer immediate humanitarian assistance, sometimes as basic as instant noodles and blankets. ELEM’s vans also set up in known hotspots and serve as a base for one-on-one meetings, access to phones, brochures, and first aid. The vans both provide critical services to teens on the streets and act as ELEM’s eyes and ears in mapping the changing of spectrum of risk facing Israel’s young people. עלם, העמותה לנוער בסיכון, הוקמה לפני 38 שנים במטרה לסייע לבני נוער, צעירים וצעירות בסיכון לשפר ולשנות את מצבם. בשנה האחרונה עלם סייעה לעשרות אלפי בני נוער וצעירים ברחובות, במרכזי הנוער, ברשת, בליווי לחיים עצמאיים ובקצה רצף הסיכון. עמותת עלם פועלת בשיתוף פעולה עם משרד הרווחה, משרדי ממשלה נוספים, רשויות מקומיות וגופים פילנתרופיים.