...Shakiera Reid-Taylor Professor Milicent Driver HSM/210 February 3, 2014 Checkpoint: Researching Human Service Agencies In the Baltimore City area two of the most popular human service agencies include the Housing Authority of Baltimore City and Department of Social Services. The Housing Authority of Baltimore City focuses on the homeless and low income demographic by providing housing needs to low income families within the inner society to help promote self-sufficiency through providing safe, affordable, and decent housing to its tenants. The Department of Social Services meets various food, income, childcare, and family support needs by serving the elderly, homeless, low income, and disabled demographic. Over time society has influenced both agency’s decisions to meet the needs of the demographic needs by helping to identify what the current socio-economic needs are in each community. The difference I observed in the ways each agencies attempts to meet human needs is that The Department of Social Services offers immediate help, while the Housing Authority does not. Overall each agency is somewhat successful in meeting the needs of its demographic group. Both agencies are federally funded and with the surplus of demand for social service assistance programs offered by each agency are often discontinued or on “freeze’. For example, the Housing Authority has no longer been accepting applications for its housing choice voucher program formerly known as section 8 due...
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...Compare and contrast the information you found for each agency, and then answer the following questions in 200 to 300 words: • What needs do each agency meet and what demographic does each agency serve? What or who may have influenced the agency’s decision to meet the needs of this demographic group? Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors: Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors advise people who have alcoholism or other types of addiction, eating disorders, or other behavioral problems. They provide treatment and support to help the client recover from addiction or modify problem behaviors.(Bureau.2012) the demographic of this human service is more but not always for some for the more populated areas the metropolitan areas. This field helps people of all ages, with many different types of issues that need to be serviced. Social Workers: There are two main types of social workers: direct-service social workers, who help people, solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives, and clinical social workers, who diagnose and treat mental, behavioral, and emotional issues. (Bureau.2012) this field service a wide array of people and the issue in which they have as well as servicing nationwide. I feel that Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors fields are influenced by the judicial system then anything forcing people to deal with their problem as a last resort or as an alternative to jail, having their kid’s taken away, whereas the medical field...
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...Mentally Ill HSM 210 week 1 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 week 2 Checkpoint Researching Human Services Agencies HSM 210 week 2 Assignment Contemporary Problems HSM 210 week 3 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 week 4 Checkpoint Differentiating Between Public and Private Organizations HSM 210 week 4 Assignment Examining Government Regulations HSM 210 week 5 Exercise Critical Thinking Exercises HSM 210 week 5 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 week 6 Assignment Prevention HSM 210 week 6 Checkpoint Determining levels of prevention HSM 210 week 7 Checkpoint Comparing Values HSM 210 week 7 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 week 8 Assignment Characteristics and Skills HSM 210 week 8 Checkpoint Evaluating Communication Strategies HSM 210 week 9 Capstone DQ HSM 210 week 9 Final Substance Abuse and the Native American Population ******************************************************** HSM 210 week 1 CheckPoint Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.hsm210tutorials.com Check Point: Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill One of the most significant historical events to impact the evolution of human service work was the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill in the 1960s. Your text examines some positive and negative outcomes of deinstitutionalization. Resources: Ch. 3 (p. 144) of Human Services in Contemporary America and the University Library Due Date: Day 5 [post to...
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...CheckPoint Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill HSM 210 Week 1 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 Week 2 Checkpoint Researching Human Services Agencies HSM 210 Week 2 Assignment Contemporary Problems HSM 210 Week 3 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 Week 4 Checkpoint Differentiating Between Public and Private Organizations HSM 210 Week 4 Assignment Examining Government Regulations HSM 210 Week 5 Exercise Critical Thinking Exercises HSM 210 Week 5 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 Week 6 Assignment Prevention HSM 210 Week 6 Checkpoint Determining levels of prevention HSM 210 Week 7 Checkpoint Comparing Values HSM 210 Week 7 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 Week 8 Assignment Characteristics and Skills HSM 210 Week 8 Checkpoint Evaluating Communication Strategies HSM 210 Week 9 Capstone DQ HSM 210 Week 9 Final Substance Abuse and the Native American Population Activity mode aims to provide quality study notes and tutorials to the students of HSM 210 COMPLETE CLASS in order to ace their studies. HSM 210 COMPLETE CLASS To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/hsm-210-complete-class/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM HSM 210 COMPLETE CLASS HSM 210 Week 1 CheckPoint Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill HSM 210 Week 1 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 Week 2 Checkpoint Researching Human Services Agencies HSM 210 Week 2 Assignment Contemporary Problems HSM 210 Week 3 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 Week 4 Checkpoint...
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...Katelyn Dew Field Experience #5- Visit a health agency Nutritional- Name of agency- Health and Human Services Department (HCHHS) Address- 8000 North Stadium Drive, Houston, TX 77054 Website- http://www.houstontx.gov/health/Community/nutritionpage.html Phone number- 713-794-9090 Hours- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week Services- Counseling by: Registered Dietitians Licensed Nutritionists Graduate level Nutritionists/Dietitian Abuse Prevention- Name of agency- Harris County Child Abuse Task Force Address- P.O. Box 617, Houston, Texas 77001-0617 Website- http://hccatf.org/ Phone number- 1-800-252-5400 Hours- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week Services- Information about abuse and reporting abuse Counseling- Name of agency- DePelchin Children’s Center Address- 4950 Memorial Drive, Houston, Texas 77007 Website- http://www.depelchin.org/counseling/ Phone number- 713-730-2335 Hours- 24 Hour Hotline Services- DePelchin Children’s Center is committed to meeting the needs of children as one of the largest providers of mental health, foster care and adoption services in Texas. Through its clinical expertise and special brand of caring, DePelchin turns lives around, providing a full continuum of care including psychiatric services, counseling, residential treatment, programs for at-risk youths, parent education, foster care and adoption. Foster Care/Adoptions- Name of agency- Children of Diversity Address-13700 Veterans Memorial, Suite 100, Houston, Texas 77014 Website- http://children-of-diversity...
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...National Aeronautics and space administration, shortly called NASA. The NASA is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA's mission statement has been to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. President Eisenhower established NASA in 1958 with a distinctly civilian (rather than military) orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science. The National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed on July 29, 1958, replacing its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The agency became operational on October 1, 1958. Since that time, most U.S. space exploration efforts have been led by NASA, including the Apollo moon-landing missions, the Skylab space station, and later the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA is supporting the International Space Station and is overseeing the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and Commercial Crew vehicles. The agency is also responsible for the Launch Services Program (LSP) which provides oversight of launch operations and countdown management for unmanned NASA launches. Most recently, NASA announced a new Space Launch System that it said would take the agency's astronauts farther into space than ever before and provide the cornerstone for future human space exploration efforts by the U.S. NASA science is focused on better understanding...
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...Check Point: Researching Human Service Agencies Teresa Laing HSM/210 June 7, 2013 Laneisha Searls There are many Human Service agencies that provide assistance to countless of people in need here in Arkansas. These agencies provide assistance in shelter, food, medical and care for the elderly, child welfare and assist many in finding employment. These are only a few of the many ways that Human Service workers help in providing assistance to all people here in Arkansas. While there are many services, I have chosen two that I am personally involved with through volunteer work. * ElderChoices Program: ElderChoices is an Arkansas Medicaid home and community-based waiver program designed for the elderly population. ElderChoices, approved effective August 1, 1991, is designed for persons who due to physical, cognitive or medical reasons, require a level of assistance that would have to be provided in a nursing facility, if it were not for the services offered through this program. The major goal of this program is to provide services that assist eligible persons to remain in their homes or live with family in order to prevent or delay institutionalization (“DHS division Of Aging and Adult Service”, n.d.). * Division of Behavioral Health Services: Children’s Services The Division of Behavioral Health Services (DBHS) ensures mental and behavioral health care is available to children and youth throughout the state. Outpatient mental health services are available through...
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...Client Paper Timberly R. Hobson-Carter University of Phoenix Introduction Human services clients face a wide range of problems such as drug and alcohol addiction, domestic abuse, mental and physical issues as well as family issues or dysfunctional. Regardless of the issues or conflicts the client may be experiencing, the human services professional (HSP) must be equip to handle these issues and/or issues by communicating efficiently with the client. From the human service side, problems have two components: a description of a problem/situation, and the course of action to resolve it (Woodside, M. & McClam, T. (2011)). The HSP can help the client in various ways such as gathering information from the client, researching services/agencies, and talking to the client about their feelings (Woodside, M. & McClam, T. (2011)). Background A problem is something existing to the client and causing them trouble, pain, grieve, or discomfort (Woodside, M. & McClam, T. (2011)). Problems have solutions, whether they’re short or long term solutions. If not solutions, they can always be addressed. Before a problem can be solved or address, it has to be identified then the course of action can planned and executed. There are some problems, a client may be experiencing can be solved and addressing while others are long term and need more time to solve and address (Woodside, M. & McClam, T. (2011)). Problems that could be considered long term is drug and alcohol addiction...
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...University of Phoenix In this paper three websites pertaining to mediation and advocacy for different types of people will be reviewed. All of these websites are great vehicles for researching advocacy and mediation. These websites offer a plethora of information regarding advocacy and mediation. The National Organization of Human Services website, defines the field of Human Services as - "broadly defined, uniquely approaching the objective of meeting human needs through an interdisciplinary knowledge base, focusing on prevention as well as remediation of problems, and maintaining a commitment to improving the overall quality of life of service populations. The Human Services profession is one which promotes improved service delivery systems by addressing not only the quality of direct services, but also by seeking to improve accessibility, accountability, and coordination among professionals and agencies in service delivery” (The National Organization for human service). In America, the National organization of Human Services is considered to be the nation's principal agency for health protection and provision of essential human services to all Americans especially those who are considered to be in the lower level of society. Human Services professionals working for and with the varied agencies mediate and advocate to resolve conflict and to educate about its varied causes and concerns. Advocates speak for and in behalf of a particular concern. For example - domestic abuse...
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...Private Funds Danielle Bryant HSM/240 December 11, 2013 Lori Moon Private Funds As I researched different privately funded agency’s I came across The Family Services Association, which is a privately funded agency. Family Service Association of San Antonio has been building strong families since 1903. It is the oldest human service agency in San Antonio dedicated to helping children, seniors, and families in need. I chose this agency because they have so many programs that they offer to their community that address so many different issues and problems. At The Family Services Association, they offer many different programs to the community that address social issues. I chose to write about their Early Childhood Well-Being program. The Early Childhood Well-Being Program was initiated in January 2011. This program is to identify gaps in the areas of medical and mental health services for young children and their families. The program will then collaboratively build strategies to effectively meet the needs of young children and families with the intended outcome of maximizing their healthy development and successful educational achievement, and establishing a healthy foundation for lifetime success. Developing and mentoring infrastructure of professionals and services that are accessible to families that effectively address early childhood development issues. This program also educates trains and mentors early education/health staff and administrators. Health providers to...
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...Consumer Habits, Who’s really to Blame? While researching for this paper I ran across a great quote that simplifies the personal responsibility part of the equation. “Personal responsibility is the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards. But personal responsibility also means that when individuals fail to meet expected standards, they do not look around for some factor outside themselves to blame. The demise of personal responsibility occurs when individuals blame their family, their peers, their economic circumstances, or their society for their own failure to meet standards. The three areas of personal decision making in which the nation’s youth and young adults most need to learn and practice personal responsibility are education, sexual behavior and marriage, and work.” (Haskins) After researching different publications on the web, I’ve come realize that there’s a whole lot more to consumer behavior than I previously thought or even expected. First of all your companies product has to pass regulation boards put in place by our government to make sure that the products that are being sold aren’t harmful to the human being, or planet. The agency is called the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA. “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It consists of the Office of the Commissioner...
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...needs of the community and then organize ample health service for the defined population (Association of Schools of Public Health, n.d.). The interdisciplinary approach of health services, biostatistics, and epidemiology are incorporated in public health. The purpose of this paper is to describe Center of disease control and prevention (CDC) as a public health agency and how it contributes to the core functions of public health. This paper will also examine the specific ways CDC influences the health care organizations and provider and will also discuss the roles of the agency workers including specific responsibilities, competencies, and skills. CDC as an agency and its contribution to the core functions of public health. CDC is the lead federal government public health agency and a key operational element of the Department of Health and Human Services. The CDC manages a variety of programs intended to control and prevent specific disability risks, injury, and disease on a national level through dissemination activities, program development, research, epidemiologic surveillance, and investigation. “CDC employs more than 15,000 employees in more than 50 countries and in 168 occupational categories” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010. para. 4). CDC focuses on the protection of the health of all people along with scientific excellence. CDC has the core values of accountability, respect, and integrity. The agency collaborates with many national,...
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...Tiapula and Turkel (2008) state that, “One of the common misconceptions of trafficking is that it involves only foreign born victims crossing international borders into the United States.” Human trafficking, as defined in the North Dakota Century Code, involves sexual exploitation of a victim if that victim is less than eighteen years of age or if coercion is used for an individual of any age. Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in the United States is sometimes referred to as domestic minor sex trafficking (Bounds, Julion, & Delaney, 2015). Federal legislation has defined human trafficking as enslavement of individuals through means of force, fraud, or coercion (Farrell & Fahy, 2009). The term human trafficking has multiple...
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...discussion on the scientific method and how it relates to research in the human services field. This paper will review the steps in the scientific inquiry process. This paper will define quantitative and qualitative research and explain how they relate and differ each to the human services field and the scientific method. The paper will determine whether to use a quantitative or qualitative research methodology, and provide examples of what sort of study is appropriate for each methodology and why. The paper will define mixed method research with descriptions and strengths included. Examples of when it is appropriate to apply mixed method research in the human services field will also be examined. In conclusion, there will be a summary of how scientifically sound research supports the function of the human services manager. The Scientific Method The six steps to conducting research are “1) identifying a research problem, 2) reviewing the literature, 3) specifying a purpose for research, 4) collecting data, 5) analyze and interpreting the data, and 6) reporting and evaluating research” (Creswell, 2008, p. 7-8). The scientific method is the process of asking and answering scientific questions by observation and experimentation. Scientists when searching for cause and effect relationships in nature use the scientific method (Science Buddies, 2011). Common scientific methods used in the human services field to gather...
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...Organizational Structures and Processes Summary For The Department of Health and Human Services Organizational Structures and Processes Summary Introduction “The department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the primary agency the United States” (USDHHS, 2011, pg. 1) government uses for supplying essential human services and for protecting the health for Americans. HHS dispenses more funding money than any of the other government agencies collectively and symbolizes roughly a quarter of national expenses. Most HHS funded services are provided at the local level by county and state agencies and works closely with local and state governments or through private sector grantees. There are 11 operating sections managed by the department programs, which include three human service agencies and the U.S. Public Health Service has eight agencies. There are more than 300 programs, obscuring a large range of activities. Impartial treatment of beneficiaries nationally is also provided by HHS and the collection of national health and other data is enabled. Organization’s Structure In the Department of HHS, the organizational structure is organized in a tree-like structure, most of the other offices of administration branching from the center, the secretary portion. The deputy secretary and the Chief of Staff are the heads of the department, and the Executive Secretariat, Office of Health Reform, Office on Disability, Office of Intergovernmental, and External...
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