HUMS 150 Community Resources and Partnerships
Implementation of community based service models require extensive information about agency resources, familiarity with agency services, and establishment of opportunities that promote collaboration and working relationships among human service professionals. Students will participate in an interactive learning experience to gain an understanding of the development of partnerships among community based agencies that are necessary to secure services for clients. Lectures, discussions, assignments, media presentations, field work, and in-class activities will give students practical knowledge and involvement in the development of strategies to access community based services.
Hours Weekly
84 hours field work; 1 hour lecture weekly
Course Objectives
- 1. Identify a variety of community based agencies and their resources, including
rehabilitative, vocational, educational, employment, somatic and mental health,
recreational, legal, advocacy, social, human, and volunteer services. - 2. Illustrate the need for the coordination of services among community based
agencies in the provision of human services to a diverse client population. - 3. Explain the role of the human services practitioner in procuring and utilizing
community based services. - 4. Sketch the referral processes employed between public and private human service
agencies. - 5. List a number of federal, state, and local government and private agencies
common to most communities - 6. Apply an orderly method of identifying, selecting, and procuring services from
community based agencies. - 7. Recognize the delicate balance between information sharing and maintaining
confidentiality of all personal information in both inter and intra agency referrals. - 8. Demonstrate advocacy skills needed to work effectively as a team member to obtain inter
agency services that meet case management goals for clients. - 9. Develop a theoretical base for determining when and how to use community
based resources. - 10. Knowledge of methods that facilitate as well barriers that impede coordination of
service delivery among community based agencies - 11. Employ professionalism in the establishment of a network of personal contacts in
community based agencies.
Course Objectives
- 1. Identify a variety of community based agencies and their resources, including
rehabilitative, vocational, educational, employment, somatic and mental health,
recreational, legal, advocacy, social, human, and volunteer services. - 2. Illustrate the need for the coordination of services among community based
agencies in the provision of human services to a diverse client population. - 3. Explain the role of the human services practitioner in procuring and utilizing
community based services. - 4. Sketch the referral processes employed between public and private human service
agencies. - 5. List a number of federal, state, and local government and private agencies
common to most communities - 6. Apply an orderly method of identifying, selecting, and procuring services from
community based agencies. - 7. Recognize the delicate balance between information sharing and maintaining
confidentiality of all personal information in both inter and intra agency referrals. - 8. Demonstrate advocacy skills needed to work effectively as a team member to obtain inter
agency services that meet case management goals for clients. - 9. Develop a theoretical base for determining when and how to use community
based resources. - 10. Knowledge of methods that facilitate as well barriers that impede coordination of
service delivery among community based agencies - 11. Employ professionalism in the establishment of a network of personal contacts in
community based agencies.