How local, state, or national public policies may have impacted the delivery or accessibility of these services to your target population.

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Advocacy for Diverse Clientele

For your first project assignment, identify a culturally diverse population within your community. This population will serve as the basis for your course project. Then draft a 3-4 page paper that includes:

  • A brief description of your target population.
  • Advocacy processes for policies, programs, and services that are equitable and responsive to the unique needs of your target population and that address institutional and social barriers that impede access, equity, and success for this target population.
  • How local, state, or national public policies may have impacted the delivery or accessibility of these services to your target population.
  • A description of three individual, couple, family, group, or community strategies appropriate for working with and advocating for your specific culturally diverse population within your community.
  • At least three community resources (internet links with brief explanations are acceptable) currently available to assist the members of your target community and an explanation as to how you can promote client understanding of and access to these resources.
  • Reference materials from your studies and additional academic research from the Capella Library that support the approaches, strategies, and techniques you have described.

Note: An assignment template has been created to assist you in developing your assignment. Click on the link in Resources to access the template.

Assignment Requirements

  • Number of pages: The paper should be between 3-4 pages in length.
  • Written communication: Communicate your thoughts in a manner that conveys the overall goals of the assignment and is consistent with APA standards for style and professionalism.
  • References: The paper must include a reference list. Include a minimum of 2 references from professional literature.
  • Format: You must use proper APA style in listing your references. Refer to the APA Style and Formatting module in Capella’s Online Writing Center on iGuide or the APA Style Manual 6th edition for more information. Write your paper using Microsoft Word.

What current challenges might your clients face and how might this impact your organization as well as your work? What future societal issues might your clients and organization face?

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My Future as a Human Services Professional

[WLO: 4] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 5]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapters 13, 14 and the epilogue from your text, The generalist model: Where do the micro and macro converge? (Links to an external site.) and Self-care in the world of empirically supported treatments (Links to an external site.). Your final paper should identify and analyze a specific need identified by a community.

Your summative assessment will require you to reflect on your future as a human services professional. In your paper, you must comprehensively address the following:

  • Evaluate your career selection that was made in Week 1.
    • What populations do you want to serve and in what capacity?
    • What type of organization do you want to be working for in the future (or now if you plan to stay with your organization as you advance)?
  • Appraise the past, current, and future societal issues facing the human services profession with your chosen population and organization.
    • Evaluate a minimum of one historical issue related to your population.
    • What current challenges might your clients face and how might this impact your organization as well as your work?
    • What future societal issues might your clients and organization face?
  • Evaluate how you might perform your role in this field.
    • How might you be supervised?
    • What might your working relationships be with your colleagues?
    • How will you maintain healthy boundaries with clients?
    • What other services might your organization offer and how might these services interact with yours.
  • Assess the impact that the community will have on your clients and organization?
    • How will you work to serve your clients within the community?
    • How do you think you will have an impact on the global needs in terms of the population you have chosen to serve?
  • Compare the human services organization where you currently work or might work with a similar human services organization that serves the same population.
    • Outline the similarities and differences, evaluating which is more of an effective model of a human services agency.

The My Future as a Human Services Professional final paper

  • Must be six to eight double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper (bold and with a space between the title and the rest of the information)
    • Student’s name, followed by institution name (“Ashford University”)
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Waypoint Assignment Submission

The assignments in this course will be submitted to Waypoint.  Please refer to the instructions below to submit your assignment.

  1. Click on the Assignment Submission button below. The Waypoint “Student Dashboard” will open in a new browser window.
  2. Browse for your assignment.
  3. Click Upload.

Describe how the contextual factors described within the vignette might influence the diagnoses that are given and how or whether the contextual factors are addressed in the client’s diagnostic list.

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Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that addresses the following in children from early childhood through middle childhood:

  • Summarize the physical changes      that occur in children during this age and the factors that influence      those changes. Include a comparison of males versus females.
  • Describe the changes that occur      in a child’s brain and nervous system during this time frame and the      corresponding changes in cognition, problem solving and judgment. Give      specific examples of skills and abilities. Include a comparison of males      versus females.
  • Summarize the major milestones      in social and emotional development that take place in early and middle      childhood. Include information on self-understanding and self-concept,      emotional regulation, peer relationships, male and female differences, and      family influences.Diagnosing the Whole PersonIn this assignment, you will provide a discussion of cultural, developmental, neurobiological, social, and environmental considerations given the following vignette. Develop an appropriate diagnosis, correctly coded and recorded, and recommendations for treatment. Be sure to address any ethical considerations pertaining to diagnosis and treatment.

    Tasks:

    to read a case vignette its attached below

    Describe how the contextual factors described within the vignette might influence the diagnoses that are given and how or whether the contextual factors are addressed in the client’s diagnostic list. Create an appropriately written diagnostic profile of the client.

    Your final product should be a 2- to 3-page paper, written in APA format, and you should utilize a minimum of three scholarly sources. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in the accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, punctuation, and references.

Conduct library or internet searches on the negative effects of discrimination on the health and well-being of African Americans. 

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  1. Conduct library or internet searches on the negative effects of discrimination on the health and well-being of African Americans.  What does this research say about this relationship?  What can individual Blacks do to minimize these health effects?
  2. Make columns for starting salaries of $30,000 and $33,000, respectively for Black and White new employees.  Assume the black employee earns a 4% increase per year and the White employee earns a 6% increase per year.  What are the salary differences after 10 years? 20 years?  Make another column with the assumption that the White applicant receives promotions every 3 years, and the Black applicant is promoted every 5 years.  For promotions assume an increase of an additional 10%.  What are the salary differences after 10 and 20 years given the difference in initial salaries, in increases, and in promotion rates?
  3. Conduct research to find Hispanics in positions of power in corporations, politics, or universities.  Describe their positions, educational background, experience, and other relevant factors that affect their successes.
  4. Investigate 3 current instances of racial profiling and police misconduct against people of color.  How easy or difficult was it to find this information?   How institutionalized were these practices (i.e., how much were they due to a few “bad eggs” in authority versus an institutionalized policy of discrimination?)
  5. Construct a table of 5 jobs that are sex segregated, excluding those listed in Table 9.6 in your textbook, but that have comparable or similar jobs for both sexes.  In addition to wages, compile differences in education, training, and/or experience required for those jobs.   What factors do you think are responsible for the continued sex segregation of these jobs? What might be done to change the sex segregation of these jobs?
  6. Interview a person who is employed in a sex-atypical occupation (for example, a male nurse or a female professor of engineering).  What factors affected his or her career decisions?  What background experiences and/or educational requirements were needed for him or her to qualify for this particular job?  What were the reactions of family, friends, and coworkers?     What diversity-related experiences have stood out for him or her at work?