In this chapter, you will learn how to:

1. Define mezzo policy advocacy
2. Identify five skills needed by mezzo policy advocates
3. Read the context of agencies and communities
4. Decide whether to proceed in agencies and communities
5. Decide where to focus in agencies and communities
6. Obtain decision makers’ recognition of an unresolved problem in agencies and communities
7. Analyze the problem in agencies and communities
8. Develop a strategy to address the problem in agencies and communities
9. Develop support for the strategy or proposal in agencies and communities
10. Implement the strategy or policy in agencies and communities
11. Address whether the implemented strategy or proposal is effective in agencies and communities
12. Analyze a case example of mezzo policy advocacy