BSH/302 Introduction to Human Services
February 22, 2012
Maxine Proctor
This paper will help you understand more about human service and their job description. I will give you different types of related fields alone with their goals. By the end of this paper you will also know about the history of social services and some of the laws. Human service is a professional who acts as an agent to assist different people.
Human service can help individuals, groups, or families. There are people out there that think human service are the people that comes into your home and take your kids or try and break up the home you say is happy. That is totally opposite of the social worker they not only help you cope with crisis and whatever stress you may have, they also make you more effectively in all areas of life and living. Social worker is standing up for others and promoting social justices for others. Human service goals are to help people that are having problems meeting their basic needs as well as educating them with the resources that will allow them to live a better life. Some people that social service help are usually the ones that have very little or no family support or friends. They may also live in a non supporting community or a community with little or no faith
. These people may also find themselves confronting barriers just to get their needs met. On the other hand the people that have family, friends, and a supporting neighborhood may be thinking that people with barriers must be doing something wrong. Not all people live in a neighbor hood that has faith and doesn’t mind helping each other. In this case I would have to that’s incorrect thinking because there are different barriers that may exist and keep people from meeting their own needs. For example we have lack of family support, lack of friends, mental illness, racism, lack of education and