Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Describe the administration and management style of your agency.
- Examine the influence of funding on the operations of your agency.
- Identify the organizational theories used by your agency.
- Evaluate the client empowerment principles used by your agency.
- Assess the methods used within your agency when implementing motivational theories.
- Describe the process and purpose of program evaluation at your agency.
- Assess the program outcomes at your agency in terms of achievements and areas for improvement.
- Describe the role of research at your agency.
- Identify a researchable need within your agency and explain how it is defined.
- Analyze research to identify service gaps.
- Explain challenges in obtaining the appropriate services for clients.
- Describe methods of client advocacy and empowerment.
- Describe ethical issues that can arise from working with clients.
- Apply ethical standards for human service professionals.
- Identify addiction-related issues within your community.
- Explain the consequences of addiction in your community.
- Describe the challenges of working with individuals with addiction issues.
- Describe the addiction interventions available in your community.
- Identify the role of the human services professional in addiction interventions in your community.
- Determine situations when a referral is necessary.
- Identify local laws related to abuse and neglect.
- Evaluate the issues associated with abuse and neglect within your agency.
- Discuss the role of the human services professional while working with abuse and neglect victims.
- Identify the resources for victims of violence within your community.
- Explain protocols your agency follows when violence is encountered,
- Describe the effects of violence on families within your community.
- Identify the elements of successful aging.
- Determine the role of the human service professional in finding resources for older adults in your community.
- Discuss the process for reporting elder abuse in your community.
- Identify the mental health needs of the clients at your agency.
- Determine the mental health intervention strategies offered within your community.
- Examine multicultural issues to be considered when providing mental health interventions to special populations.
- Identify the methods of practice in various faith-based human service agencies.
- Compare human service organizations, including those that are faith-based, in your community.
- Describe how your agency networks with other human service agencies, including those that are faith-based, within your community.
- Explore the best practices associated with ending relationships with team members at your agency.
- Identify skills required to ensure effective closure with your clients and agency.
- Describe how you can help clients and yourself transition successfully to new experiences.
- Describe the role of human rights in the delivery of human services and the mobilization of change.
- Identify economic, political, and social factors that influence the practice of human services.
