Interview with a Human Service Professional

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The purpose of this interview is to explore human service professional in their work environment, and observe human service professional in their particular settings, what type of education is required for their position of choice. The human services profession has a variety of populations that they serve; this is a wide array of people. Human service professionals serve populations such as, high-risk mothers who may have shortfalls in education, psychosocial, nutritional, and little or no transportation. Another is the homeless population, lack housing due to being unable to afford, or maintain safe and adequate housing. The elderly is a population that is increasing, there needs range from chronic illness, lack of or little education, mentally, financial, loss of independence, and stereotyping. They serve those diagnose with a chronic illnesses, such illnesses may be diagnoses of , high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, there is also the chronic mentally ill who are consider high risk, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, ADHD(attention deficit hyperactive disorder). These are just a few of the services that a human service professional may work with. Meridian Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. is a “private, non-profit organization that has a long history of providing community based and largely publicly funded behavioral healthcare services. Their mission is to promote recovery and offer solutions to those facing mental illnesses, addiction and other social challenges”. The site for Meridian is located in North Central Florida, the building is very clean, and the waiting area was well stock with materials that gave insight to the different types of services you could receive through the programs they offered. I am meeting w... ... middle of paper ... ...sion promised to transform mental health care in United States by promoting access to educational and employment opportunities to individuals with mental disabilities, as well as promoting full access to community life (President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, 2003)”. Introduction to human services has given me a glimpse of what the human services professions do, the task are not always easy. They are committed to helping clients become empowered, by helping them to grow to becoming whole, and functional. Works Cited Schatz, M., Jenkins, L., & Sheafor, B. (1990, Fall).Milford redefined: A model of initial and advanced generalist social work. Journal of Social Work Education, 26(3), 217–231. Retrieved June 24, 2009, from Professional Development Collection database http://www.ankabhi.org/pages/services_population.html http://www.mbhci.org/

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