Human Service Personal Interview

Share a brief summary of the interview you conducted. Include the nonprofit agency’s name and a brief description of the agency’s services.

I am now going to look at five types of interview and approaches that can be taken for different reasons;

The Human Services profession is a wide and vast field of occupation that provides support to various people in various situations. From an Alcohol Counselor, to a Social Work Assistant, the Human Services professional proves to be a vital career. For my interview assignment I chose Amada Miller, a Family Services Worker who works for the City of Norfolk in the Human Services Department in Norfolk, Virginia. As a Family Services Worker, Amanda Miller is specializes in providing help to families in a majority of ways. After Interviewing Amanda, her insight and advice she gave to me made me consider going into the Human Services Field.

The past couple semesters we have focused on theories, techniques, role-plays, etc. However, I think learning more about the human services profession as a whole is extremely beneficial. For this assignment, I conducted an interview with a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) named Joshua Feinberg at Chestnut Ridge Hospital. Joshua has been working as a social worker for four years. He enjoys the counseling aspect more than anything as being a social worker. At Chestnut Ridge Hospital, LICSW are technically called a “Clinical Therapist”. They are called clinical therapists because they mostly do counseling at this facility. During the course of the interview, the questions focused on the professional roles, positives, negatives,

There are many different professions that one can choose when entering the healthcare field. Nursing is a very popular and needed profession that is vital to care for patients. For this paper I have chosen to interview my younger cousin who currently works for the VA Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada as a Registered Nurse in the Medical Surgical Unit. I will describe the targeted facility and unit she works for, the type of work done within her unit, any interesting, informative, or specific information related to the chosen unit which makes it unique, and a comprehensive description of my cousin, and her responsibilities.

For this assignment, I am interviewing my cousin who happens to be a nurse in Arizona. The reason I picked her instead of someone local is because she was someone who I never would have thought would ever become a nurse, much less graduate from high school. She was always getting into trouble, causing trouble, and just seemed as though her life was headed nowhere. She ended up married and pregnant at 18 and a couple of years after that she was working as a nurse at a Sharp Hospital in San Diego before moving to Arizona. I am so proud of her because not only did she turn her life around, she really does know her job inside and out. If I have a medical question,

A career in the health care field is a growing profession. Unlike many different avenues of career choices, the health care field is projected to grow rapidly in many years to come. When a person decides to obtain a health care position they are able to literally live anywhere and still be able to find a job. There are numerous options of working anytime that fits into the daily routine of a person’s schedule. Also, the choice of deciding whether or not to work alone or work on team, depending on which path is chosen.

At some point in our live everyone will eventually have to take part in the helping process. Whether it is donating your support or receiving some type of support. People will use the Human Service Network for assistance from human service professionals. Some questions they will need to know is how does human service professionals help? And what is the human service

What was one of the hardest things you’ve ever had to do in your position?

Steve Barrett is the Executive Director for Human Resource Operations for the Minneapolis Public Schools District. According to S. Barrett, he has worked in his current position for seven months (personal communication, January 20, 2015). Previously, Barrett worked as an adjunct professor at the Metropolitan State University for 25 months, and as an Executive Director for Employee Relations at Minneapolis public schools for 20 months. Later, he worked as the Labor Relations Director at Osseo Area Schools for three years and four months, and Labor Relations Specialist at the City of Saint Paul for six years and one month (S. Barrett, personal communication, January 20, 2015). Barrett earned his master’s degree at Hamline University, where he graduated with a Masters of Arts in Public Administration. In this report, I document the interview I had with Barrett on January 20, 2015 to discuss human resources management in the school district.

We analyzed transcripts from semi-structured interview data originally conducted with human service professionals for a different purpose, that of describing their work in human services in an urban, multicultural environment. In an earlier study, we interviewed 77 frontline and administrative human service professionals across the United States who performed case management roles and responsibilities (Woodside & McClam, 2007). We used convenience sampling to identify agencies and staff to interview. Personal contacts, resource guides, and the Internet facilitated the identification. We then contacted the agency directors to arrange interviews with their staff. All of those interviewed performed the case management role. Interviews occurred

At Better Life Services, a private mental health organization located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Otessa Gregory works as a Utilization Management Director. Mrs. Gregory began working at the Mental Health agency as a mental health aid several years ago, and is an enlightening example of a helping professional. Better Life Services was established fairly recently, in 2009 in Hampton, Virginia, and relocated several years ago. The nonprofit agency deals primarily with adult and children patients who have been diagnosed with mental health conditions. Services provided include Daily Living skills, Skills development, life counseling medication management, outpatient therapy, and several others. Before delving more into the specific duties Mrs. Gregory is tasked with, it is important to give an overview on the setting in which she works in.

Misty Urban has been a friend of my parents for a very long time, so when I found out I needed to interview a healthcare professional I knew exactly who to go to. Misty is currently employed at ViaQuest Home Health and Hospice. Getting to where she is now was not easy, in fact she said “While I took pre-requisites for nursing, which took seven LONG years, because I took one class at a time until I had to go full-time for my RN.” While taking her pre-requisite courses she was also working at the Somerset Dialysis Center and worked there for almost 9 years. Before that Misty held jobs at Somerset Ambulance for 11 years, and also at the Somerset Hospital Emergency Department as a Registrar/technician. Misty told me that she was a candy-stripper at the Somerset Hospital when she was thirteen years old and that is what made her love the medical field. Then when she turned sixteen she took classes at the Somerset Vo-Tech to become an Emergency Medical Technician. “At 16, I was also a fireman too. I became the first female in the Somerset Fire Department and the first to obtain my firefighter 1 status” Misty said. When Misty received her nursing degree she went on a medical mission trip to Paraguay. When she returned home from her trip she start to work at The McGinley house, a home for intellectually disabled adults. Within the next could of weeks she will begin her training in hospice with ViaQuest. “I love the medical field, I 've been

With the “Helping Interview,” all the knowledge and skills have been useful, realizing that I have not only made use of the majority of the micro skills useful in conducting the helping interview, but have also reflected on the stages of the helping interview at placement as well (Ivey, A. E, & Ivey, M. B., & Zalaquett, C.P., 2013).

The student I chose to interview for my case study is a Caucasian male that has grown up in and around West Milton, Ohio his whole life. His name is Blake Ullery and I chose him for this project, because I really enjoy West Milton’s “Freshman Focus” program that takes junior year students interested in tutoring freshman to help acclimate them to their new high school environment. Blake is an exemplary student that works diligently to help Mrs. Pair’s freshmen students during their 5th period focus group.