Overview of Human Services Sector

This paper provides an overview of the human services sector, focusing on the mission of practitioners and their perspective on welfare. It also discusses the importance of education and addresses issues such as poverty and Aboriginal population.

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Over view of Human Services sector
It can be said that to work in the human service sector relates with offering assistance
to the society in relation to all the demographics, background and ages in the different crisis
In this paper, the emphasis will be given on the mission of the practitioners and also on their
perceptive related to welfare. The emphasis will also be on the use of their knowledge
according to the different cases in terms of poverty and the best question can also be
considered that will help to evaluate the requirement of the specific groups. Poverty is
considered as one of the essential aspect on which focus should be given to reduce it so that it
could be easy for the individuals to maintain the living standards (Lewis, 2017). In the paper,
the focus will be on the human service work and their perspective in relation to welfare. The
next phase of the paper will discuss about the importance that should be given on education
system of the youth. So, the paper will highlight other aspects such as poverty and Aboriginal
population.
Week2: Choice A: As a human services worker, what is your perspective
on welfare?
As a Human Service Worker, I hold professional job in different
settings like homes, houses, correctional centres, community health
service centres, child, youth and family service agencies etc. It is a very
challenging job role and it requires diverse factors in human behaviour. To
me, welfare is something related to the happiness and the well-being of
people (Taylor, 2015). As a human service worker, I am in charge of
human being’s welfare, ensuring that they are well-fed and healthy. For

this purpose to be achieved, these human beings, who cannot support
themselves, should be provided with financial support and this is called
Welfare. However, goals of every welfare varies because it looks towards
promoting the work pursuance, education and in most of the cases, a
better living standard as well (Greve, 2018). The human beings who are in
need of welfares are the ones who are poor, developmentally challenges
or the disadvantaged group of a nation. They are also the ones whose
level of income are below the FBL (Federal Poverty Level) or BPL (Below
Poverty Line).People or individual who is on welfare are supported by the
government agencies or human service centres with free or highly
discounted services and goods to live their daily life. It can be done
through providing them with Medicare, food vouchers or even housing
assistance. However, welfare is something that is usually aimed towards
developing and supporting individual with very little to no income, the
disabled and the elderly.
Week3: Choice A: While watching think about the structural factors and
ecological theory. How might you as a human services practitioner help
these families?
As the suburbs of Australia comprises socio-economically deprived
children It is imperative in considering scale for identification of places
with a concentration of families who are socio-economically
disadvantaged to be aware of threats of ecological fallacy (Maru et al.,
2014). Such a fallacy indicates that every family living in a disadvantaged

place does not tend to have attributes related to socio-economic
disadvantage (Ferguson, 2012). There can be identified statistical
evidence that children who grow up in families living in the suburbs rely
on the welfare support of human service intervention. Furthermore,
severe lack of educational equity is identified as critical challenge for
these children.
Human Services agencies must offer services to sustain
welfare and nurturing of children to enable them to manage life’s
transitions further ensuring protection of children to build stronger and
resilient communities. At this juncture, social learning theories can
facilitate and promote strong, enduring concept which will help in the
emergence of new theories, competencies and sustainability from beyond
the education organisation in order to attain the best results for socio-
economically disadvantaged children (Maru et al., 2014). Pearce et al.
(2015) have noted that social learning theory will rise new behaviour
which will continue if it is strengthened in a more successful manner to
community agencies and resources and offer opportunities ahead of usual
school hours. These programs will provide substantial support to
disadvantaged families of several Australian suburbs by means of family
friendly facilities and initiatives in order to support parents of children like
Jada, Jacob and Connor to improve the structural condition of these
suburbs.

Week5: Choice A: With your critical lens - Discuss if this is the best form of
assessment, why or why not and if you disagree, please state why and
what form of assessment you would use.
In this documentation, the youth will be my main focus group. They
are capable of playing some critical role in the surrounding environment
and due to this; issues are revolving around them should be handled with
a lot of care. The education system among the youths should be given the
first (Ashton & Morton, 2015). In order to attain this context, it is
appropriate to implement questioning model, this model will involve the
implementation of a face to face interaction with the youth. On the other
hand, it will be an efficient method of gaining appropriate information. The
model will be used in practice by asking the youth quite some questions
that will give more comprehensive information about their educational
backgrounds. One of the significant expected outcomes for the client is to
get exposure through the questioning model that will lead to different
levels of discussion.
As far as my perception is concerned, this appears to be one
of the best forms of assessment since it involves a reasonable and
efficient discussion approach that is brought about by the ability to
question the targeted individuals providing a wide range of information.
For Instance, questioning the youths about their academic background will
ensure that various information is revealed as to whether they went
through the required education system or not (Haugen et al., 2016). After

that, a conclusion will be made to determine whether an individual need
some help or not.
Respond: Week3: Choice A: While watching think about the structural
factors and ecological theory. How might you as a human services
practitioner help these families?
I totally agree, that human development is influenced by the
opportunities and risks in the environments which are caused by poverty
and other factors. Poverty arises from the unpreparedness of people and
their inability to actively engage in market economies (Strier& Benyamin,
2009). Poverty means different things in different contexts but in most
cases, it creates inequalities in the society since it limits exposure of
people to opportunities of life that can make them progress. Since poverty
is a multi-layered situation of oppression, then the environment is an
expression of the multi-level oppressions that arise from structural factors
that shape the livelihood of such people.
To develop solutions to this challenge, Chenoweth & McAuliffe
(2017) propose the anti-oppressive approach that can be used to solve
the problem by focusing on the private and general issues that revolve
around the welfare of people. This means that encounters between
different players and the beneficiaries of such projects need to be
increased to reduce the unequal power relations and imbalances so that
the views of the vulnerable can be included. This calls for the need to
address systemic conditions that create poverty through developing

structural and sustainable solutions to the challenges that the people
face. Strier& Benyamin (2009) also add that through anti-oppressive
social services, connections between different levels within the problem
and combining them with individual/group/community-oriented action can
address the power differences in the society to sustainably solve the
problem.
Respond: Week 5: Choice A: With your critical lens - Discuss if this is the
best form of assessment, why or why not and if you disagree, please state
why and what form of assessment you would use.
The issue of vulnerability of the Aboriginal population towards
mental health issues cannot be denied. Since, 2014, there had been a
dramatic increase in the aboriginal rates of anxiety, suicide, depression as
well as cognitive disability and perinatal mental health. One of the main
reasons behind this is the history of colonisation. The aboriginal people
have been separated from their identity and culture. The history of the
colonisation, discrimination based on race and culture has continuously
influenced their health and wellbeing (Dudgeon et al., 2014). Although the
4A’s framework -Awareness, Anticipation, Alternatives and Access to
Mental Health interventions are being followed through the aboriginal
communities, the effectiveness of all the elements in all the sectors in
questionable. In spite of the actions taken, people get deprived of their
basic human rights and equal access to health care, such as the primary
care services, lifesaving medicines, proper education and employment.
Again, in regards to the collaborative model used, it will certainly focus on

other issues as well, apart from the mental health. A collaborative model
would definitely provide numerous opportunities to create welcoming
health care spaces, where the community members can belong, accepted
and understood. It has been rightfully stated that cultural mapping tools,
eco maps and genograms are acceptable to understand the family
relationships (Stewart & Allan, 2013). They help in giving a comprehensive
structure of the family dynamics, the family member’s connection with
the community to social support like housing support, counselling, justice
programs, income supports. However, the disadvantages associated with
these tools are that the patients might hesitate to open up and eco-maps
are difficult to read. Thus, a collaborative assessment technique should
definitely be used.
It is concluded that the human service practitioners should have in-
depth understanding of dealing with the individuals of the society who
belongs from the different backgrounds, ages and gender. It will help to
manage the overall activities in an effective manner. Also, it is important
to reduce the poverty level so that people can maintain the living
standards. One of the best approaches that should be considered to
resolve this issue is related with anti-oppressive approach.

References
Lewis, O. (2017). The culture of poverty. In Poor Jews (pp. 9-25). Routledge.