Importance Of Human Services Needs Assessment Paper
Human Services Needs Assessment Paper
LaTawsha Estell
BSHS 355
02-09-2015
Professor Joyce Yip Green
Human Services Needs Assessment Paper
The selected group needing human services is children in need. This selected group is important because if children aren’t serviced when they are children, they will become adults who need services. If human service professionals can break the cycle early in childhood there will be less of a chance that they need additional services. This selected group is also very important because children in need cannot help themselves. Adults can make choices to try to fix their situation. Children follow adults lead so they only know what they are taught, what they see, and what their parents do and if the adult …show more content…
Children in need have not developed fully to deal with stresses in life.
Chapter two of (“Human Services in Contemporary America”, 2011) explains that the conditions and problems that children in need are facing, but not limited to, are physical and emotional problems, lack of understanding, rejection, illnesses, and poverty, children in single family homes, and abused and neglected children. There are many more factors that children in need face. Poverty and children living in single parent homes seems to be the most challenging with trying to take care of children. Povertyusa.org lists the statistics on poverty in the United States that 1.6 million children stayed in a shelter or emergency housing last year. Also, 1 in 6 Americans live in poverty. Statistics also states that 1 in 7 American households were food insecure last year. There …show more content…
There are community centers, daytime care programs, programs for teenage mothers, parent-assistance programs, family crisis intervention programs, and socially supportive organizations. Every state has a human services department that has a child and family services department to help the children’s needs. Every state also has a Child Protective Services (CPS) department to help meet children’s needs. There are also adoption and foster care programs that help meet children in need as well. (“Family, Youth, & Children’s Services, 2011) There is a special program called “savethechildren.org”, which allows people to become sponsors to help with children in need. People can just donate on the website as well in they don’t want to commit enough to be a
LaTawsha Estell
BSHS 355
02-09-2015
Professor Joyce Yip Green
Human Services Needs Assessment Paper
The selected group needing human services is children in need. This selected group is important because if children aren’t serviced when they are children, they will become adults who need services. If human service professionals can break the cycle early in childhood there will be less of a chance that they need additional services. This selected group is also very important because children in need cannot help themselves. Adults can make choices to try to fix their situation. Children follow adults lead so they only know what they are taught, what they see, and what their parents do and if the adult …show more content…
Children in need have not developed fully to deal with stresses in life.
Chapter two of (“Human Services in Contemporary America”, 2011) explains that the conditions and problems that children in need are facing, but not limited to, are physical and emotional problems, lack of understanding, rejection, illnesses, and poverty, children in single family homes, and abused and neglected children. There are many more factors that children in need face. Poverty and children living in single parent homes seems to be the most challenging with trying to take care of children. Povertyusa.org lists the statistics on poverty in the United States that 1.6 million children stayed in a shelter or emergency housing last year. Also, 1 in 6 Americans live in poverty. Statistics also states that 1 in 7 American households were food insecure last year. There …show more content…
There are community centers, daytime care programs, programs for teenage mothers, parent-assistance programs, family crisis intervention programs, and socially supportive organizations. Every state has a human services department that has a child and family services department to help the children’s needs. Every state also has a Child Protective Services (CPS) department to help meet children’s needs. There are also adoption and foster care programs that help meet children in need as well. (“Family, Youth, & Children’s Services, 2011) There is a special program called “savethechildren.org”, which allows people to become sponsors to help with children in need. People can just donate on the website as well in they don’t want to commit enough to be a