...University of Phoenix Material Human Services Needs Assessment Worksheet Select three groups from the following list: • People with a mental illness • Homeless individuals • Criminals • People with a mental disability • People with HIV or AIDS • People with a physical disability • Poor individuals • Older adults • Individuals with substance addictions • Survivors of domestic violence • Unemployed individuals Using Ch. 2 of Human Services in Contemporary America, complete the table for the chosen groups by writing a 60- to 85-word response in each column. An example has been completed as a guide. |Group |Conditions of or problems facing the |Unmet needs |Description of organizations or |How the organization or program meets the | | |group in need | |programs meeting the needs |needs | |Children in need |Children can be endangered because |Children need physical care and |Each state differs. Some states have |The local department addressing human | | |they need adults to care for them. |protection from older, abusive |government organizations, such as a |services may have the resources to provide| | |They can experience problems with |children or adults...
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...with Mental Illness One problem that those suffering with mental illness face is the fact that the term mental illness can mean just about anything that involves the psychological or emotional struggles. Mental illness is harder to diagnose than a physical illness and comes with much more of a stigma. Those suffering with mental illness face a life full of obstacles. Many have a hard time finding or keeping a job and end up homeless. Those suffering with mental illness need a place to be treated that does not cause them more harm. Institutions are not set up for those with minor mental health issues and can cause more harm if the patient is not treated appropriately. Those with a mental illness may not be able to properly care for themselves and need and need someone to help them learn basic living skills. If they do not have a caring family member to do this they may end up living in destitute. The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 was put in place to offer service to those with mental illness. The plan was to cover five main goals, which consist of in-patient and out patient care, emergency care, partial hospitalization and education. Hospital emergency rooms may offer help to those with emergency mental breakdowns. Local health departments offer training and education to those with loved ones with mental illness. Most states offer in-patient and out patient mental hospitals that can help those who have nowhere else to turn due to financial...
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...Cultural Competency Assessment Cultural Competency Assessment Cultural competency is a combination of attitudes, behaviors, and policies that creates a system within an organization or among groups. It allows people to work together effectively in cross-cultural, diverse situations. Culture is the pattern of behaviors that includes a person’s actions, thoughts, communications, beliefs, values, language, and institutions of social, ethnic, racial, and religious groups. Competence determines whether a person can function effectively as an individual, group, or organization within the context of the cultural behaviors, beliefs, and needs of clients and the communities in which he or she resides (Sutton, 2000). America is considered the “the melting pot” because of the culturally diverse communities we live, work, and play in. Importance of Cultural Competence America is a combination of diverse race and cultures, such as White, Asian, Native American, African American, Hispanic, and many others. Although every culture has created a new way of life in the 21st Century, each group has preserved values and beliefs from his or her original culture. Human service professionals need to provide services with objective, nonjudgmental, knowledgeable, open-mindedness, and the williness to understand the needs of each client. For example, a human service professional not aware of the Native American Child Welfare Policies may remove a child from his or her tribal family, and place that...
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...conscious efforts to realign operational priorities with the demands of the changing environment. Thus, successful achievement of the fundamental objectives of organizations is highly dependent on their ability to attune their operational focuses to the realities on the ground. Cognizant of this fact, Somali regional state capacity building bureau has recently embarked on an initiative aimed at redefining its major businesses in light of the objective demands. The bureau envisions bringing about radical change in its performance by applying Business Process Reengineering as a main tool. To this end, the existing Human Resources Development (HRD) core process has been identified to be an important candidate for the reengineering initiative. An existence of a HRD system which systematically coordinates the continuous human resource development, motivates civil servant to high level of performance, and ensures that they continue to maintain their commitment is essential to the successful achievement of the regional institutions mission and vision. However, because of traditional operational focuses, the existing HRD system of the bureau has for long been engulfed with a number of managerial and functional inefficiencies. In view of this, the bureau has assigned team consisting of four members to assess the basic features of the existing HRD system and redesign a new process that can contribute to the realization of the required change...
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...What Is Human Services In the human services field there are various directions that anyone may turn to in this profession. If it is social work, counseling, psychology, etc., the goal in these fields is to help those people who come to a professional in need. Helping them turn in the right direction to improve their lives and those around them. We all have basic needs. Some people are not able to meet those basic needs by themselves, so they need the help of someone in human services. Human service professionals help people by removing any barriers with that person’s life that could keep him or her from meeting their needs. Supporting them and the community, and helping them function at the highest ability they can is also another goal to help achieve happiness and their needs. The human services field was not always this way when it first started. The human services profession has been around since the 1800’s, starting with the feudal system in England’s Middle Ages. England helped influence the system for social welfare here in the United States. The wealthy landowners would give small parcels of land out to the under privileged people or peasants, as they called them back then. They thought this would keep poverty down, but it was also a form of slavery because of the background these under privileged people came from. Toward the middle of the fourteenth century the feudal system began fading out of England’s environment. The church began stepping in helping with...
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...Skills Assessment Paper and Matrix Marzieh Cassidy, Laura Gilge, Rhonda O’Brien and Carina Torres University of Phoenix GEN/480 Interdisciplinary Capstone June 7, 2012 Jason H. Rodarte Skills Assessment Paper and Matrix Table A skills assessment was performed on the newly formed consulting team. Team C members consist of Marzieh Cassidy, Rhonda O’Brien, Laura Gilge and Carina Torres. Team members worked together in indentifying their respective skills and developed a matrix table to understand the team strengths and weaknesses. To perform as a high performance team it was established strong core values will help guide attitudes and behaviors in improving the performance of team goals. In performing the skills assessment a diverse mix of skills were identified from creative thinking, communication and business management skills. The teams’ diversity of work experience provides individual perspective and knowledge in human resources management, accounting and information technology in non-profit, public and private industries. To perform harmoniously the group recognized the diversity of culture, ethnicity and social environment of this newly created high performance team. The skills assessment table categorized different skill sets in displaying a pictorial chart for ease of understanding. The team included a work, and volunteer experience summary to attach a relationship of how the skills were obtained. Team C has a variety of skills, education, and...
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...Special People and Special Needs According to the California Department of Education, a special population is one that fits into one of the following criteria: “Individuals with disabilities; individuals from economically disadvantaged families, including foster children; individuals preparing for nontraditional training and employment; single parents, including single-pregnant women; displaced homemakers; and individuals with other barriers to educational achievement, including individuals with limited English proficiency ("Special Populations", 2014).” Many of the homeless fall into more than one category of Special Populations. The National Healthcare for the Homeless Council (2014) adopts the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services’ definition of what it means to be homeless stating a homeless person is, “ an individual who lacks housing (without regard to whether the individual is a member of a family), including an individual whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility (e.g., shelters) that provides temporary living accommodations, and an individual who is a resident in transitional housing.” Homelessness does not discriminate against age, adults and children are homeless. The most common causes of homelessness is a lack of affordable housing, poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, and mental illness ("Facts And Figures: The Homeless", 2010). As of 2009, one in 50 children in America were homeless, or approximately...
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...are disabled or who are older are usually discouraged from taking risks with their budgeting, planning, employment and their daily living skills usually because people fear for their limitations or that they might hurt themselves or others. Everyone has the right to take risks and make decisions about their own lives, a balance should be found between service users participation in everyday activities and the carers duty of care. Social care and health policies are encouraging residents to increase their independence by being involved in the wider society such as leisure and work. It should be noted that it is impossible to eliminate risk completely, however minimising and being prepared for risk by preventative action. Supporting people to live independently by taking part of their lives means accepting that there are risks that cant be avoided but can be prepared for. Explain why individuals may have been discouraged or prevented from taking risks, For some services, approaches to risk have been a problem because they have been concerned with avoiding potentially harmful situations for the service user and staff. People need to take risk to achieve things on their own merit, but there are people who should support them but will discourage them from taking risks because of perceived perceptions of the persons limitations. Risk taking can have benefits for the individual as it will enable them to do things most...
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...Training Needs Analysis A supermarket is a unique place in that every person in a community will use it for daily food and essential supplies shopping unlike most other businesses that have a specific target audience. Understanding this difference is important in any attempt to increase sales and have a greater profit margin. Each store has a unique clientele that shop there and in some cases there are specific needs that must be catered to achieve strong customer satisfaction. It is possible that not completely understanding this in combination with a gap in certain skills areas and high employee turnover are key reasons that sales have dipped that last two quarters and some stores are receiving low customer satisfaction scores. In an effort to fix these problems senior management believes training and development may help decrease employee turnover and increase customer satisfaction, which will increase sales and meet sales goals. Human Resources, along with Training and Development, will attempt to identify indicators that show the specific problems experienced by the affected stores can be resolved through training, design a needs assessment plan identifying three specific training initiatives and potential outcomes from the three training initiatives, and using this select one specific training initiative and develop a budget of projected costs to implement this initiative. Having already identified the problems the three stores are having (missed sales goal for past...
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...Marketing Opportunities PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT TBS Consulting Fax: (07) 32691143 | PO Box 316 Sandgate Q. 4017 Putting the pieces together | admin@tbsconsulting.com.au PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Creator X - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com BSBMKG501B Investigate & Evaluate Marketing Opportunities This unit of competency describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to identify, evaluate and take advantage of marketing opportunities by analysing market data, distinguishing the characteristics of possible markets and assessing the viability of changes to operations. No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of endorsement. BSBMKG501B Investigate & Evaluate Marketing Opportunities contains employability skills. Instructions to the candidate 1. Read the relevant chapter(s) of the nominated texts included in your Candidate Study Guide. Read relevant texts from the list of suggested reading websites, industry journals and forums provided. Read each of the practical activity assessments for this unit of competency before commencing. 2. Answer all of the requirements of the practical activities. Keep in mind you are studying a Nationally Recognised Diploma unit of competency. Your answers must reflect the depth of knowledge and understanding expected of a person who can work without supervision and demonstrate a level of judgement and decision making. 3. This assessment is to be conducted in your own...
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...Is Human Services? Kimberly Zapalac BSHS 301 March 29, 2012 Larita Pendergraft Abstract There are many subjects that can be covered within the human service profession. This paper will be covering a brief look at the following: the goal of the human service provider along with a look at its history from the middle ages until modern times. It will look at what is means to be in generalist practice, and the theoretical framework of human service. Common interventions within the human service profession will be explored; as well as ethical considerations within the profession. What Is Human Services? Human Services is a term used that describes and defines a wide variety of jobs and positions that serve a population of people who for whatever reason cannot help themselves. The National Organization for Human Services (NOHS) defines the human services profession in this way: “The Human Services profession in one which promotes improved service delivery systems by addressing not only the quality of direct services, but also seeking to improve accessibility, accountability, and coordination among professionals and agencies in service delivery” (Martin, 2007, p. 5). The goal of the human service...
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...Welcome to the BTEC First award in Health & Social care You have chosen this course and this handbook is designed to give you an insight into how the course will be run. The BTEC first award is a 120 guided learning hour course which will give you a vocational qualification. It will give you the knowledge, understanding and skills to help prepare you for employment or to lead on to further areas of study. The course consists of 4 core units for the complete qualification which have specific learning outcomes. Three units have been broken down into assignment tasks which form part of a number of central assignment briefs. In addition, there will be an external examination to assess the remaining unit. The tasks cover different assessment criteria and are designed for you to produce finished pieces of work which also compliment and act as learning tools for each other and produce a complete interrelating body of work. As the course is vocational you will be visiting places of work, meeting and working with practising scientists and learning how to develop science with a set purpose. You will be able to discuss and evaluate the progress and end results of your work. You will also look at a variety of issues within the health and social care sector. The assignment tasks will be assessed and internally verified by your teachers and an external verifier will assess your work. The examination will be assessed externally. You will be given definite deadline dates for...
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...Welcome to the BTEC First award in Health & Social care You have chosen this course and this handbook is designed to give you an insight into how the course will be run. The BTEC first award is a 120 guided learning hour course which will give you a vocational qualification. It will give you the knowledge, understanding and skills to help prepare you for employment or to lead on to further areas of study. The course consists of 4 core units for the complete qualification which have specific learning outcomes. Three units have been broken down into assignment tasks which form part of a number of central assignment briefs. In addition, there will be an external examination to assess the remaining unit. The tasks cover different assessment criteria and are designed for you to produce finished pieces of work which also compliment and act as learning tools for each other and produce a complete interrelating body of work. As the course is vocational you will be visiting places of work, meeting and working with practising scientists and learning how to develop science with a set purpose. You will be able to discuss and evaluate the progress and end results of your work. You will also look at a variety of issues within the health and social care sector. The assignment tasks will be assessed and internally verified by your teachers and an external verifier will assess your work. The examination will be assessed externally. You will be given definite deadline dates for...
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...Title | Diploma of Human Resources Management | Unit Code | BSBHRM501 | Unit Title | Manage Human Resources Services | 2. GROUP DETAILS | Group Name | | Group Title | | Day | Wednesday | Room | TD122 | Unit Start Date | 2/3/16 | Start Time | 11.30am | Unit End Date | 24/6/16 | Finish Time | 1.30pm | 3. CONTACT DETAILS | | Name | Room | Phone | Email | Teacher | Mike Hannaford | TD232 | 0430551171 | mhannaford@swin.edu.au | Course Leader | Mike Hannaford | TD232 | 0430551171 | mhannaford@swin.edu.au | Administration | Student HQ | SPW | 1300368777 | www.swinburne.edu.au/askgeorge | 4. DELIVERY OVERVIEW | Class Time | External Activities | Student Project | | | Nominal Hours | 51 | | 9 | | | 60 | 5. UNIT DETAILS | Unit Type | Core | | Elective | | Result | Graded | | Ungraded | | Pre/Co Requisites | N/A | Description | This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to plan, manage and evaluate delivery of human resource services, integrating business ethics.It applies to individuals with responsibility for coordinating a range of human resource services across an organisation. They may have staff reporting to them.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication. | Elements | 1 | Determine strategies for delivery of human resource services | | 2 | Manage the delivery of human resource services | | 3 | Evaluate human resource service delivery | |...
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...What is Human Services? Nina Brown BSHS 301 Introduction to Human Services September 6, 2011 University of Phoenix Alberto Reynoso What is Human Services? The field of human service has been around for centuries in many forms with the sole intention of helping marginalized populations attain a sense of accomplishment in managing their lives. Human services are necessary to assist people who otherwise have little or no help in navigating their social environment for various reasons. There are segments of the population that aren’t able to acquire the basic human needs of shelter, food, and health care that everyone should have in order to maintain an ordered life. The goal of the human service profession is to help the disenfranchised overcome various obstacles that prevent them from living their lives to the fullest by providing them with support and various intervention strategies. The very early systems of taking care of the underprivileged were shrouded within a feudalistic society that resulted in slavery. Society’s attitudes towards the poor at that time were somewhat positive; there was no shame in being poor as long as you were seen as worthy (Martin, 2007) . The privileged were basically bestowing their graces on the poor with the understanding that it was necessary in society for the underprivileged to exist and for charity to be provided. The principles behind giving charity to the poor were engrained...
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