Client Paper
Working for human service can provide such a wide range of problems and issues from all different types of clients. Human service professionals can work with caring for children and families, the elderly, the homeless, immigrants, people with addictions, people with disabilities, people with mental illnesses, and Veterans.
When human service professionals work with children to ensure that they live within safe homes and have the basic needs of a child. They also help with parents by supervising them in properly caring for their children. There are several ways that a human service professional can guide parents, and they are, helping parents with an application for food stamps, low-income housing, and helping in finding adequate childcare. There are some cases where a human service professional needs to step in such as, domestic violence situations or physical abuse going on within the home. It is in this case where children could be removed from their home and put into foster care or even put into group homes, and this is for their safety. Children that are in this situation could be in this temporarily or it could end up a more permanent situation, but in this case it is the responsibility of a human service professional to find either an adoptive family or another permanent home for that child or children.
Human service professionals work with the elderly, there main goal is to help them be able to stay within their own homes if at all possible. This could involve human service worker finding an organization or program that will help provide meals for the elderly or finding a full time and live in individual that can take care of the elderly on a permanent basis. There are elderly that are unable to stay within their homes. When this happens it becomes the human service workers responsibility to find the client a nursing home or a residential care facility. There are also clients that are coming to the end of