Human Services is majorly approaching the objective of meeting needs of a community through prevention as well as finding remedies of problems and maintaining an assurance to develop the quality life of the population. Human Services Agencies face a lot of challenges when it comes to delivering quality services and benefits to particular target populations. Some of the challenges they face may include competition between each other, budget pressure and need to attract the modern population. It is very common for human services agencies to compete for scarce resources, clients, status and reputation in the community (Libby & Austin, 2002). Hence, their relation is characterized by tension. This proves to be detrimental to the community that they should serve. Human services practitioners provide their services by health promotion, education, civic engagement and social improvement in the community.
Human services agencies play an essential role in the community setting. One of the roles of human services is mental health and involves working with the counties, planning and advisory councils, and other state agencies to coordinate the services. While human services professional might be dealing with the challenges of their clients, they must also learn how to grapple with challenges that come about with their career (Libby & Austin, 2002). Some of the challenges that may be faced in this field of human services are: making decisions for their clients, burning out, and brokering.
Making decisions can be a challenge because human service professionals have to make critical decisions for the clients seeking help with mental health (Power & Chawla, 2008). The problem with burnout may be caused by frustration, exhaustion, and depression from the hectic career. The other challenge involved is brokering which will need workers to understand the apparatus of services in a particular community for it to be assisted.
References
Libby, M. K., & Austin, M. J. (2002). Building a coalition of non-profit agencies to collaborate with a County Health and Human Services Agency: The Napa County Behavioral Health Committee of the Napa Coalition of Non-Profits. Management Notes, 26(4), 81-98.
Power, A. K., & Chawla, N. (2008). Transformations in collaborative healthcare.Families, Systems and Health, 26(4), 459-465.
