Human Services

FEMA IS-909 Name Institutional Affiliation FEMA IS-909: Community Preparedness Community preparedness refers to the community’s ability to be ready for, to withstand, and to recover from public health incidents. This is mainly done by coordinating with the healthcare organizations, the emergency management teams, the behavior, and mental health providers, as well as the community and faith-based partners. The role of the bodies in community preparedness is to support medical and mental health systems that promote recovery. They also offer awareness training on how to prevent and manage public health incidents. The ability of a community to respond to an incident depends on the preparedness...

Prevention of Substance Abuse Name Institution Prevention of Substance Abuse The last time I recall being offered material on substance abuse prevention I was 12 years old. I remember people from a certain non-governmental organization had visited our school to educate us about substance abuse.  However, I feel that the program was not quite effective at that time since the information that we were provided with was not reinforced. These people only came once, and they did not follow up to see the progress. As a result, despite the effort of creating awareness and even providing printed copies of information on substance abuse, I saw some of my classmates becoming drug addicts and dropping...

Mock Biopsychosocial Interview Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Mock Biopsychosocial Interview Assessment Overall, I had a rough experience trying to squeeze responses out of the interviewee. Even though I notified him that this was a mock interview, the individual, an adult friend, thought that I had purposefully targeted him. In accordance with the observations made by Reinert and Allen (2007), I developed the feeling that asking consumption questions before symptom questions could affect the willingness of the interviewee to provide valid responses. In the end, the individual agreed to take part in the mock interview after a lot of convincing that involved the efforts of my...

Stages of Change Mock Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Stages of Change Mock In the mock interview, Mr. White is an adult friend who has been fighting to lose weight ever since he moved into our neighborhood. I have noticed him practice every morning and on one occasion heard him deny the offer of a carbonated soft drink from a close friend. Unfortunately, he was hardly losing weight and felt discouraged to continue following the weight loss program. After realizing how I managed to maintain healthy body weight, White found it necessary to learn and use my strategies with the anticipation that they would help him to achieve his objectives. From my assessment, it was evident that White...

Students’ NameProfessors’ Name Social Work and Human Services Date Human service major priority is to offer help and facilitate day to day living of individuals, groups, and families among other composites of society by solving problems affecting them. Proper analytics and use of appropriate approach methods in solving a human service problem assist in achieving the success of the project. It is hard to find a group setup or a community without a list of issues which they would want to get solved. However, it is not all such problems that get solved. Therefore, good choice of a problem amongst other issues is a critical subject which follows identification of problems nature, problem...

Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Social Work and Human Services HUS professionals are mandated to recognize and demonstrate awareness on the challenging issues affecting their clients in regards to their financial problems, human rights issues, and legal/administrative hurdles, among other concerns related to the field. Clients rarely deal with a single problem as most of their issues range from food, housing needs, family issues, drug abuse, among other issues. Human service professionals are highly trained to recognize the social injustice and oppression faced by most clients as they develop solutions to the existing problems. Poverty is considered as the common denominator affecting most...

Student’s Name: Tutor’s Name: Course: Date Due: Social Work and Human Services Apparently, the preliminary aim of any profession in social work and human services is to ensure people’s welfare and assisting them to take thereof themselves and obtain the various basic needs. It’s attaining the sustainable development goals such as poverty alleviation, offering affordable medical care, women and youth empowerment among others. Throughout my practicum experiences, I have come to assume some ethical responsibility such as rendering quality services, ensuring social justice, helping people realize their dignity and self-worth, showing them the importance of healthy relationships,...