Movement for Public Psychology (Registered Association)

The organization will work toward appropriate representation of psychologists in public service in Israel in existing or alternative institutions and will work to promote their status and employment conditions. The organization will work to continue recruiting psychologists in public service through direct and/or indirect outreach to the relevant psychology professionals (including through social media and direct mail). The organization will work toward achieving appropriate compensation, job security and suitable employment conditions for psychologists in public service and proper standards for psychologists that meet the growing needs of the population. The organization will work to preserve and expand services provided through public psychology and will work to improve public awareness of public psychology services to which they are entitled. The organization will work to achieve its goals through mobilizing public opinion (such as organizing conferences and public campaigns, demonstrations, press articles, meetings with opinion leaders, regulatory bodies, legislators, etc.); monitoring the realization of psychologists' rights; taking legal proceedings if necessary; and through attempting to participate in collective negotiations and influencing the workers' organization representing psychologists in public service to establish a representative body for psychologists or otherwise work to promote and improve representation of psychologists in public service at the collective level