Cultural Diversity and Human Services: Community and Service Agency Challenges

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ramirez Garcia ◽  
P. Tracy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Service Agency

Learning from the Managers of Human Service Organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 140-165
Author(s):  
Austin Michael ◽  
Sarah Carnochan
Keyword(s):  
Human Service ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Service Agency ◽  
Agency Staff ◽  
Partnership Model ◽  
Human Service Delivery ◽  
Service Delivery Systems ◽  
Study Participants

Chapter 7 of Practice Research in the Human Services: A University-Agency Partnership Model focuses on the experiences and perspectives of human service agency managers. It describes a multiphase study examining the experiences of public and nonprofit managers involved in human services contracting. The study aimed to further our understanding of the accountability and service coordination challenges that these cross-sectoral relationships pose for managers, especially in the context of increasingly complex human service delivery systems. This study integrated case studies, a multi-county survey, and review of contract documents. The chapter also describes a second study that sought to inform managerial practice by examining managerial perspectives and experiences related to evidence-informed practice, using a multi-county survey incorporating closed and open-ended questions. Principles for practice research relate to the study design process, recruitment of study participants, engagement of agency staff, and translation of implications into concrete practice recommendations.

scholarly journals Commentary on ‘Cultural Diversity Across the Pacific’: Samoan Cultural Constructs of Emotion, New Zealand-Born Samoan Youth Suicidal Behaviours, and Culturally Competent Human Services

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jemaima Tiatia
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Effective Service

A recent special section on cultural diversity across the Pacific, in this journal, highlighted the need for greater alignment between human services and cultural diversity in the region. Alignment entails detailing a local context. Samoan cultural constructs of emotion, particularly anger and shame, may precede suicidal behaviours among New Zealand-born (NZ-born) Samoan youth. These behaviours can stem from perceived ruptures in family unity, as youth partly identify with majority norms. A barrier to integration faced by acculturating youth is that the young person either lives with the shame of their offence, or avoids it by taking their life. It seems Samoan cultural constructs of emotion must be considered in effective service delivery for this population. Consistent with the articles in the special section, suicide prevention should focus on developing culturally competent tools tailored for NZ-born Samoan youth, so they may communicate their feelings without fear of disrupting cultural prescriptions and expectations, as well as functioning successfully in both the Samoan and Western worlds. Although the point is discussed in relation to one special population in the Pacific region, it is consistent with an emergent theme in the special section and subsequent commentaries: the need to integrate and acculturate human services.

Year-round Special Education and Related Services: A State Director's Perspective

1981 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 272-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary J. Makuch
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Service Agency ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Interagency Cooperation ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Handicapped People ◽  
Total Dependence ◽  
The Right

The position is taken that Public Law 94-142 is not the appropriate vehicle for guaranteeing free, appropriate human services to all handicapped people and their families; that the so-called “related” services are really primary or essential services that must be provided regardless of whether or not they are needed to enable a child to profit from special education; that interagency cooperation will be unattainable unless each human service agency is obligated by law to perform equally; and that total dependence on the education system will make services unavailable both prior to and subsequent to school age. The Right to Basic Human Services Act should be supported for the assistance it can provide to school systems serving handicapped people.

INNOVATIVE USE OF MUSIC IN SOCIAL WORK: LYRICS REWRITING IN FIELDWORK PLACEMENT WORKSHOPS

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
LAWRENCE TAK HONG WONG
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Musical Training ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Degree Programme ◽  
Work Education

Cultivating the creativity of social work students is becoming essential in contemporary social work education due to the variability and cultural diversity of human services in Hong Kong. Music, as a form of creative arts, can foster students' creativity. Lyrics rewriting can be an initiative in integrating music into social work education in practice so as to nurture students' creativity. Experiences of facilitating two different fieldwork placement workshops in a social work sub-degree programme using individual and collective lyrics rewriting activities are described. The students, most of whom had no formal musical training, rewrote the lyrics of Cantopop songs; various themes, scenarios and messages were expressed as a result. The practice wisdom of encouraging the creativity of students in the classroom is discussed.

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