Technology Solutions For Human Services

Running Head : TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS FOR HUMAN SERVICES

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Date Human services involve a wide variety of services some of which are mental health services , shelters for the homeless , day care , adult care counseling , food stamps , child support and preventive health programs Some of these services are public or quasi-public while others are private . Provision of substance abuse counseling services involves both treatment and prevention services . The treatment services targets clients who have a drug problem and are trying to overcome while the preventive services

target predisposed youths and kids living in bad neighborhood . These programs are community initiatives and only receive minimal state funding . Trained counselors assisted by volunteers drawn from the community run the operations in these centers

Substance abuse counselors encounter various barriers in the running of their program affecting their planning , funding or provision of the services . Some of these problems include sub-optional flow of information , raising funds and data collection . Optimal flow information is required as there are loads of information that need to be shared with clients and among the human services workers . The workers need to deliver clear messages on negative effects of substance abuse , how to keep away from drugs and finally how to overcome a persistent drug problem . The clients also need to share out their experiences with in both groups and private counseling sessions . The main hindrance to optimal communication is limited masterly of the English language among the migrant minority groups . These minority groups are highly predisposed to drug abuse due to economic hardships they face . This group has limited masterly of the English language and this hampers the counseling sessions . This problem is compounded by the confidential nature of counseling sessions and presence of an interpreter would stop the client from opening up

While the program receives some state funding it is not enough to run the program . The program has to source funds from the community through donations , performances and fundraisers . Funds are needed to cater for stationery , pay roll , office overheads , and equipment . For the community members to be willing to support , they must have information on services the program provides to the community and its future obligations . Of great importance also , is provision of convenient means for the community to make contributions . The contributors will also require a breakdown of how past contributions were utilized , if the went to the specified use they were sourced for

The substance abuse counseling program also encounters problems in collecting data on their services . The program needs data on prevalence rate of substance abuse in the community in to plan ahead for the services . Such data will be useful in budgeting staffing and sourcing of funds . The program also requires data on the success rate of its services . This involves a follow-up on clients who have been discharged from the program to check on the proportion that abstains from the drug habit and those who fall back to their drug habits . This means that the program...