Research in the Community
Throughout this course, you have
worked on a course project designed to help you identify human services in your
community and determine how such services meet the needs of certain at-risk
populations, including people living in poverty, children and adolescents, the
disabled, AIDS and HIV patients, the elderly, the homeless, victims of abuse,
battered women, substance abusers, people with mental illnesses, and offenders.
You first identified an agency for
use in your course project. You developed a list of questions for an interview
with a human services professional in a chosen agency. You made revisions to
your questions based on facilitator feedback for your interview. You then
conducted your interview with the key human services professional working at
the agency. In addition, you carried out additional research on the agency
using the library, local resources, and the Internet.
For this assignment, complete and
submit a PowerPoint presentation on the selected agency/organization. Apply the
theories covered in the readings of this course to analyze the institution.
Include the following in your presentation:
Identify the agency/organization
and describe its mission statement.
Describe the role or position of
the human services professional interviewed.
List and describe the range or
types of services the agency/organization provides.
Describe the population the
agency/organization serves and explain the broader social needs and issues that
affect this population.
Describe how the
agency/organization is staffed and its funding sources.
Recommend training for staff based
on analysis of information. Make sure you address ethical standards specific to
the population/s they serve.
Focusing on the population of
clients served at the agency/organization, describe what you have learned about
how those clients are influenced or affected by events and decisions at 1) the
selected agency/organization, 2) your local community, 3) national or global
society.
Explain whether you would want to
work at the agency and, if yes, the position you would like to hold and why.
Describe what you have learned
about yourself in the context of completing this assignment (your
preconceptions, experiences, and insights about certain populations, services,
or agencies).
Use the PowerPoint notes feature
to include comprehensive speaker notes for your presentation. Include your
references on one slide. Include graphs and tables where appropriate.
