Category: Human Services

Identify at least three proposed interventions for your program.
What is the purpose and objective of each proposed intervention?
Include appropriate resources, including location and referrals, for your interventions.
NOTES
Despite DCFS efforts, there are still difficulties and unmet needs in Illinois’ child welfare program. The ongoing exposure of adolescents to abusive and neglectful surroundings is a severe flaw. This may be caused by failure to intervene promptly, lack of resources as child welfare organizations frequently face financial constraints that make it difficult to provide timely and adequate services to families in need, and structural problems that make it difficult to protect vulnerable children effectively (Illinois Department of Children & Family Services, n.d.). In addition, they lack assistance for aging youth.

Assignment Directions
Based on the case you selected, please respond to the following:
What is the ethical dilemma based on the National Organization of Human Services Professional standards?
Why is this a problem/challenge?
Who would be the best person to consult in this situation?
How would you address this ethical dilemma?
What challenges could working with this child and family pose for you as a human service professional?
What personal values or self-bias could potentially impact your ability to work effectively with this child and family?
What self-care strategies would you practice to respond to the ethical dilemmas, conflicting values, and self-bias?
Prompt:
Congratulations! You were selected for an interview for your dream job. For the interview, you must discuss a potential ethical dilemma that could arise from your work with children and families. You will be presented with a case example and will need to identify the ethical dilemma according to the ethical standards set forth by the National Organization for Human Services Professionals. You will need to refer to the Ethical Standards for Human Services Professionals as a guide in your response.

This is the case I selected
You are a human service professional working in an elementary school providing psychoeducational workshops for a group of 6th grade girls. One of the girls has been referred to to you because of absences and tardiness, and because it appears she has been cutting. The student did not show up for the first three appointments but finally kept the fourth appointment. She is tentative and withdrawn. She asks if she can trust you to tell you a secret and asks that you not tell anyone else. You realize that her help-seeking is in a very tentative, fragile state, and you would like to increase her trust with you and the likelihood that she will engage in services. You explain confidentiality to her, and she discloses that she is being sexually abused by her stepfather. She tells you that if you tell anyone, she will get beaten by her stepfather as he has threatened to do this.

For this assignment, you will select a client from the Client Assessment and Treatment Plan and complete all components of the Biopsychosocial Assessment form for your client. When details from the case are vague or missing, you are encouraged to elaborate and add to the case to create a richer client picture.
This assignment is intended to mimic the initial report that you would write for a new client. It culminates with a treatment plan for your selected client in Week 9. A biopsychosocial assessment is completed during and after the first session with a client. It is a report that offers a comprehensive overview of the client. If you have never written or seen a biopsychosocial report, please research examples online. The report used at a particular organization or by a particular counselor may be different, but all reports have domains (health history, education, legal history, and drug/alcohol history) in common.
This assignment is not a traditional paper like you have written in other courses. A few things to note:
While you would not be citing professional literature throughout a typical biopsychosocial assessment, for this assignment (and all others in this course), you should support your statements with frequent references to peer-reviewed journal articles from the past 5 years.
Provide APA formatted in-text citations and list all references used in the Reference field of the form.
Remember that your work for this assignment should be written primarily in your own words. Avoid cutting and pasting information from the case into your report; it is better to find a way to summarize this information in your own words.
Instructions
To complete the assignment, fill out all fields of the Biopsychosocial Assessment form in the Client Assessment and Treatment Plan. Incorporate a comprehensive discussion of the following areas:
Describe the client’s demographic information and current symptoms listed as DSM-5-TR Sexual Dysfunctions symptoms. Refer to Week 7: Sexual Dysfunctions.
Describe the client’s behavior, including any developmental crises, disability, psychopathology, and situational and environmental factors that affect both normal and abnormal sexual behavior.
Describe the client’s demographic information including age, gender, and race.
Describe the client’s cultural background, including ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation.
Detail the cultural norms specific to the client’s identified populations.
Identify ethical and cultural considerations relevant to the client’s identified sexual issues.
Cite relevant ACA ethical codes specific to the client’s circumstances.
Describe the client’s family, social, and community backgrounds.
Describe the role of family systems in the treatment of mental and emotional disorders related to issues of human sexuality.
Describe the role of social networks and community systems in the treatment of mental and emotional disorders related to issues of human sexuality.
Describe the client’s personal background. This includes:
Developmental history.
Disability status.
Educational history.
Military service.
History of trauma.
Employment status.
Legal status.
Financial status.
Other circumstances such as transportation, housing, et cetera.
Medical background.
Substance use background.
Mental health background.
The possible impact of events in the client’s history on current symptoms.
Identify other professionals that you anticipate will be involved in the care for this client as the treatment continues.
Explain how you will arrange for communication with them and what you are likely to communicate to each of them.
Describe specific strategies for working with the client to address their identified issues.
Support your discussion and ideas with relevant human sexuality research findings the support the identified strategies.
Your resulting written report should be concise, balanced, and logically organized, and conform to APA format for references and in-text citations.
Incorporate references as appropriate into fields of the form via in-text citations.
List all references used in the References field.

You will provide a statement of the problem you are addressing and a review of the existing literature related to the problem and program you are designing.
The continued exposure of minors to abusive and neglectful environments in Illinois. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)
Abstract: One-paragraph summary and overview of the final project-overview (half page).
Introduction: Problem Statement
Provide a statement of the problem(s) your program is addressing.
Define the target population your program will be serving.
Explain the related social problem(s), the area of practice/concentration, agency setting, and geographical location-local, state, national, global, virtual (half page).
Literature Review: The literature review summarizes current peer-reviewed research on the research problem or topic. It explores the cause, risk factors, background history, and theoretical perspectives related to the problem and the proposed program.
Part I: The Problem
Significant and Relevance: Does the research support the problem statement? Does it confirm, expand or refute your problem statement?
Etiology: Causes and risk factors related to the problem. Cultural, social, political, and religious values and practices affecting the problem, including any ethical or legal issues.
Social and economic costs to society related to the problem (one and a half pages).
Part II: The Program
Provide a background history on the program or, if a new program, background history on relevant or similar programs.
What programs currently exist?
Where are there gaps in the system?
How does your program fulfill an unmet need or gap for the target population, in the service delivery system and service area? (One and a half pages.) (Note: This part of the assignment relates to the Unit 3 Discussion.)
Identify organizational functions and discuss responsibilities. Analyze methods of advocacy in chosen human services programs.

provide a background history of your program, or if this is a new program, provide relevant historical information on similar programs.
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)
What similar programs currently exist?
Where are there unmet needs and/or gaps in the system?
the continued exposure of minors to abusive and neglectful environments in Illinois.
How does your program fulfill this unmet need or gap for your target population within the service delivery system and in your identified service area?
Possibly help with temporary/permanent housing for youth to be safe.

I am attaching the proposal document that explains criteria. I need a proposal thesis to submit. Which eventually will turn into a research paper.
Additional information:
For this activity, submit a document describing your research paper topic and include your proposed thesis statement that addresses a research question or hypothesis that is the center of your paper around which your arguments or analyses will be centered.

Directions
Read the following article:
Mother Tongue Maintenance Among North American Ethnic Groups Download Mother Tongue Maintenance Among North American Ethnic Groups, Robert W. Shrauf
Address the following:
What are some of the factors behind both the loss and persistence of native languages?
Does losing or maintaining one’s native language have any impact on one’s degree of acculturation or assimilation?
Posting
You must post your answer first before you can see your peers’ responses. After your initial post, reply to two or more of your classmates’ postings (three additional postings are needed for an “Exemplary” grade).
Initial responses and replies should be at least 150 words and of high quality.
The Initial Post is Wednesday, August 16, 2022 by 11:59 PM.
The Replies are due by Sunday, August 20, 2022 by 11:59 PM.
Make sure to support your opinions with facts and resources. All sources should be cited in proper APA format.
Do not:
Offer advice to your classmates
Simply only agree or disagree with your classmates

The ability to locate and utilize information relative to Health and Human Services is an important component of many health and human service jobs. Some of the areas included in HHS programs are:
Legal/illegal immigration
Poverty
Violence in the Media
Unemployment
Alcoholism
Gambling
Sexual Harassment
Criminal Justice
Hunger / Homelessness
Mental Illness
Health
As an example, the area of “poverty” was selected from the above list to locate information and relevant reports. To accomplish this, the following was entered into a search engine (such as Google or MSN): “Health and human services and programs dealing with poverty.” One of the 1, 490,000 “hits” was titled: “Poverty Guidelines, Research and Measurement.” Upon searching this website, an elaborate set of focus subtitles was found. Under the heading “Poverty Research Centers” six more references were discovered. As the interest was focused on discovering what information was available, the search centered on “The National Poverty Center.” An examination on this site under that heading yielded numerous areas regarding new research opportunities, informing the policy community, and training for young researchers. Your specific assignment follows. Start with an exploration of what can be found in several of the areas listed above. Then, identify one area and prepare a descriiptive post outlining the information in this site. You may want to experiment with various areas in order to understand the unusually large number of resources / programs, but also the kinds of information

Ethics strategies in the human service field are very important.
Name two areas of ethics in relation to program planning that you would like to learn more about.
Discuss an ethical issue like confidentiality, you feel a human service professional might encounter when working with clients.
Identify and discuss an ethical standard that is important to program planning.

Agency Problem Statement.
In your descriiption, describe the agency, service, or program, the specific services provided, and a brief statement of the social problem being addressed by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS)
Your problem statement should include who is the target population you will be serving, the main social problem you are addressing, and the setting in which services will be provided (local, state, national, global, virtual).
Discuss at least one ethical issue that could occur in this agency setting and identify one ethical standard from the NOHS that addresses this issue.
Reference:
https://www.nationalhumanservices.org/ethical-standards-for-hs-professionals