The children in the Tuvia Community live in family-style homes until the age of 15, when they move to a more independent setting at the Adolescents Home.
Multi-aged groups of around 10 boys and girls live with a pair of house-parents and their biological children. Each home is built in a two-family dwelling: one section houses the house-parents and their biological children, with "their" Tuvia Community children living in the other section.
The children's home is designed to provide the Tuvia children with an immediate encounter with a healthy family and with the emotional experience of belonging: they share meals, spend their leisure time together, share each other's pain and success and help one another.
The connection with the house-parents and other children is constructed as a long-term relationship, so that the children can internalize the experience of stable relationships. This is, however, not an attempt to replace the children's biological families, and this is emphasized throughout the child's time in the Tuvia Community.
The bond with a healthy, functional family has the power to break the vicious cycle of distress and enables members to locate their inner strengths.
