Mavoi Satum provides an array of social services for agunot and mesoravot get. The overall goal is to encourage, strengthen, empower, counsel and emotionally support women whose husbands refuse to give them a get.

The social services provided is different for each woman, and depends on her own situation and specific needs. All women receive emotional support through regular communication, especially around court hearings. Additional services may include some or more of the following:

• Counseling
• Weekly therapy
• Case management
• Providing a "melava" or specially-trained volunteer "ally"
• Assistance with children, including grants and loans
• Job retraining
• Support groups

"Advocates for Change" Media Seminar
Mavoi Satum believes that agunot and mesoravot get hold key voices in the public awareness campaign, who can and should be empowered to participate in the campaign and to effectively represent themselves and their own cause. However, although many agunot and mesoravot get would like to participate in hearthe campaign, they are often untrained in the skills of speaking to the press or before members of Knesset. Morevoer, the media often prefer to focus on personal stories rather than dealing with the structural, political and social issues pertaining to get refusal.

That is why Mavoi Satum offers the "Advocates for Change" media seminar for training past and current mesuravot get in skills of public speaking and media communication so they can be the voice for the alternative beit din campaign is opening this month. The course, supported by the Tikkun Olam Women's Foundation of Greater Washington, provides interview skills, and helps women master the art of successful public exposure. It teaches women how to effectively relate their personal story and use their story to campaign for the formation of an alternative halakhic beit din. The course offers a profound form of empowerment by making women their own advocates.

The course, facilitated in collaboration with some of the leading media professionals in Israel -- founders of Channel One, Yisrael Weiner, Vered Berman, and Ada Nachum of Shesh Productions --  is composed of four components: policy education, communication training, advocacy training, and creating the opportunities for impact:

(1) Policy education: The program includes a short course that deals with the basics of the legal problem, the halakhic problem, and the possible solutions. The course builds upon the women's experiential knowledge to facilitate a better understanding of their situation and offer a broader socio-political context to their personal stories. In this way, the women gain a new perspective on their situation other than that of ‘victim’.

(2) Media training: Participants receive training in presenting themselves in front of different media outlets. A communications professional trains the women on what to wear on television, with whom to speak, how to talk and  what kinds of language to use. The program equips the women with campaigning skills so that they approach the media and governmental or political bodies from a position of strength, knowledge and power rather than that of a victim. The program thus works on returning the power to women that their husbands and the legal system has previously taken away from them

(3) Advocacy training: A professional advocate trains the women in persuasive discourse for use in front of the Knesset and other governmental bodies. They are also trained in how to deal with possible attacks by opponents. The skills gained from the advocacy training not only enable them to effectively represent their cause, but also provide opportunities to foster the growth of self confidence, assertiveness and self worth - qualities which are essential to developing positive, healthy relationships.

(4) Creating opportunities for impact: After each course, Mavoi Satum works on creating the opportunities for the participants in the program to speak to the press or in front of legislators. The women ultimately play a major role in the campaign to solve the problem of get refusal. They are at the forefront of the campaign.