Current Trends in Human Services

Current Trends In Human Services The current economic and political climate has had a profound affect on the human services fields and has impacted those served in a very real and direct way. The Affordable Healthcare Act (AHA) for example has created such a backlash in the political and economic arenas that it has even caused the United States government to shut down due those who resist and fight its implementation and continues to be a heated debate. The relationship between economic and political events to the current trends in the human services field is becoming more and more intertwined as it geared toward providing services and meeting the growing needs of people everywhere, but with the human services funding deficits and cutbacks and with the political constraints causing complications, these needs are being threatened. Economic problems such as the recession and cuts in government spending and political problems such as the fight against the AHA have caused a lot of direct cuts to the human services programs and are not allowing the clients to be treated properly and for some clients there is no treatment at all. The economic and political events of today rule the trends of today’s society, by not possessing readily available services for those in need. The current trends in the human services field such as broader use of diverse settings, outreach and human services in rural areas are a few of the products of the political and economic events that are shaping the way human service delivery systems are being provided. There is an ever-greater demand to do more with less and to be accountable for the funding that is needed to continue to provide those services.
Human service organizations ultimately aim at evaluating, producing or delivering some type of goods or services to people in the community. Allocating human service resources to needy communities and populations in fast changing multi-cultural urban regions is becoming a major challenge for