Agency Advocacy and Organisational Development: A Feasible Policy Practice Alliance

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Journal Article Agency Advocacy and Organisational Development: A Feasible Policy Practice Alliance Get access Lia Levin, Lia Levin * Lia Levin is a faculty member at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her fields of research and teaching include social and organisational policy, social justice, socially excluded populations, poverty and the evaluation of social services. She heads a social service aimed at assisting people in extreme poverty through processes of benefit take-ups and acts as a consultant to several social programs working with excluded populations. Dr Levin is currently the co-ordinator of the Israel Academic Forum for Social Enterprise. Yael Goor is the founder and head of the Levinsky Clinic, Tel Aviv District Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Israel. The Levinsky Clinic provides free and anonymous services surrounding sexually transmitted infections. Its flag project is a mobile clinic for women in prostitution, for which Goor received the Recanati-Chase-Rashi award for entrepreneurship in social work. Meital Talia Tayri is a Ph.D. candidate at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her Ph.D. dissertation deals with social workers' engagement in policy practice at organisational, local and governmental levels. Tayri is an information, planning and research co-ordinator at the Social Services Department of the Tel Aviv municipality. *Correspondence to Lia Levin, The Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, POB 39040 Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: levinlia@post.tau.ac.il Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Yael Goor, Yael Goor Lia Levin is a faculty member at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her fields of research and teaching include social and organisational policy, social justice, socially excluded populations, poverty and the evaluation of social services. She heads a social service aimed at assisting people in extreme poverty through processes of benefit take-ups and acts as a consultant to several social programs working with excluded populations. Dr Levin is currently the co-ordinator of the Israel Academic Forum for Social Enterprise. Yael Goor is the founder and head of the Levinsky Clinic, Tel Aviv District Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Israel. The Levinsky Clinic provides free and anonymous services surrounding sexually transmitted infections. Its flag project is a mobile clinic for women in prostitution, for which Goor received the Recanati-Chase-Rashi award for entrepreneurship in social work. Meital Talia Tayri is a Ph.D. candidate at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her Ph.D. dissertation deals with social workers' engagement in policy practice at organisational, local and governmental levels. Tayri is an information, planning and research co-ordinator at the Social Services Department of the Tel Aviv municipality. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Meital Talia Tayri Meital Talia Tayri Lia Levin is a faculty member at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her fields of research and teaching include social and organisational policy, social justice, socially excluded populations, poverty and the evaluation of social services. She heads a social service aimed at assisting people in extreme poverty through processes of benefit take-ups and acts as a consultant to several social programs working with excluded populations. Dr Levin is currently the co-ordinator of the Israel Academic Forum for Social Enterprise. Yael Goor is the founder and head of the Levinsky Clinic, Tel Aviv District Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Israel. The Levinsky Clinic provides free and anonymous services surrounding sexually transmitted infections. Its flag project is a mobile clinic for women in prostitution, for which Goor received the Recanati-Chase-Rashi award for entrepreneurship in social work. Meital Talia Tayri is a Ph.D. candidate at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her Ph.D. dissertation deals with social workers' engagement in policy practice at organisational, local and governmental levels. Tayri is an information, planning and research co-ordinator at the Social Services Department of the Tel Aviv municipality. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 43, Issue 3, April 2013, Pages 522–541, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcr200 Published: 10 January 2012 Article history Accepted: 01 November 2011 Published: 10 January 2012