Introduction To Human Services Essay Research Paper

Introduction To Human Services Essay, Research Paper

Introduction to Human Services

Jeffrey, “A Human Services Professional is someone who is a facilitator

for someone who is not able or not yet able to deal with issues in a healthy way.

I am taking classes so that I can learn how to best help empower people change

their situation by believing in themselves. I believe that people have the

answers within themselves, but may need help getting in touch with their

spiritual or intuitive self. As human services providers, we hopefully strive

to model healthy behavior, including the fact that we are human, need support

from our peers, and can make mistakes.”

“When a client is ready, we educate them to give them an idea of what is

destructive behavior, bring to their attention possible consequences of their

actions, and suggest ideas or alternatives. Usually a client already knows all

this, they just never knew a better way or thought their way of dealing with

life was normal. I work on accepting each person where they are in their life,

which takes strength. I may be saying in my mind, ‘Can’t you see your way out

of the prison you’re in.’, but then I remember that I used to be in the same

place, and it took years to find my way out. I still struggle with my addiction,

and it still affects me, just not so profoundly.”

“What I would like to do is work with teenagers. As a teenager, I was

befriended by a Young Life leader. He was a man in his 40’s and didn’t want

anything from me but to be my friend. When I drank beer at lunch, he didn’t

tell me to not drink. I don’t remember his words so much as the feeling I got

when we were together. He was like a father/friend to me. He seemed to care

about me unconditionally. He looked at me like a real human person, which made

me uncomfortable, which now looking back, was probably because I wasn’t used to

that. My own father lived in the same house with me, but he was not emotionally

available to me. My own father seemed to think that all women are good for is

sex and housekeeping. That scares me when I think of that now. My first

husband thought of me only as good for sex, baby making, and housekeeping. I am

grateful that I have wised up since then.

My passion is to work in the alternative schools as a tutor or mentor,

to help give kids some kind of an idea what life can be about. I may not see

results right away, but I do believe that ‘being there’ for kids is an

investment. They may not realize until years later as I did, that someone had a

positive affect on their lives.” 2One of my coworkers from Vietnam told me

that in her country, the prisoners work for their food. I thought to myself, as

I am sure many people have before, that we should try that here in this country.

I do not think that sitting in prison really helps anybody. I have heard that

there are work camps where the inmates learn a skill or trade so that when the

inmates are released into society, they at least have marketable job skills

working in their favor.

I think community service should be required as an alternative to jail

or prison in some cases. Picking up garbage may seem demeaning, but I know of a

city employee who makes a good salary picking up garbage around my neighborhood.

Maybe if the people who threw the garbage on the ground had to pick it up, they

would care.

Taking classes, GED or college, is popular in prison also. I have a

friend who learned computer skills in prison and is now working toward a degree

in computer engineering. He is grateful he had the opportunity to take college

classes in prison, otherwise he may have never found out how much he enjoys

programming computers. It seems to help his self esteem, because he seems

gifted in this area and people often ask for his help and advice concerning

computers.

I suppose that providing housing for convicted criminals would not cost

more than incarceration. It does not seem that imprisonment is much of a

deterrent to crime. A Settlement House may seem idealistic, but is more

feasible than some may think. Sex offenders are often released into the

community. A new program has been implemented in which parole officers and

police officers regularly visit released offenders. A step in the right

direction was made when our community invited a psychologist from a sex offender

treatment facility to educate us about this population, rather than ignoring the

problem and hoping it will go away. The psychologist told us that serious

offenders are psychopathic; they do not know and do not care what is right and

wrong, nor do they care who they hurt. They have no feelings or emotions. Even

so, I do not think that terrorizing or intimidating released sex offenders, as I

have heard of in some cities, helps anybody.

I think many criminals would be better off with the awareness and

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