Internship Writing Assignment

In regards to SAHP collaborations within the homeless care arena include the Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County, the Presbyterian Night Shelter, the Salvation Army, and the Day Resource Center. The above collaborators currently offer day-to-day temporary shelter and providing more basic and immediate needs, a continuous source of clients, and begin the process of self-sufficiency for the clients. The SAHP agency offers purposeful transitional housing designed to continue what these shelters initiated. Through more intensive individualized case management and more demanding financial literacy, the SAHP agency seeks to complete the efforts of these other shelters and collectively work to end chronic homelessness in the Lancaster

During the Fall 2016 semester I had the opportunity to intern with Centro La Familia Advocacy Services, Inc in Fresno, California. Centro La Familia is one of a few organizations/agencies in Fresno County that not only provides social services, educational programs, but they also have advocacy and intervention services in rural and urban areas in Fresno County. I was allowed to intern within the victim services department of Centro La Familia, which is responsible in assisting victims of all crimes.My primary task as an intern was to learn and to help the victim advocates of Centro La Familia.Over the course of my internship I have participated in community outreach and attended meetings. In addition, I have done numerous filings, copies, translations, interpretations and filling out forms for clients. I worked closely with two very experienced victim advocates that help me transition to working in this environment, but also worked with other victim advocates to gain even more insight about the victim services they provide.

The Higher Education Access & Success for Homeless and Foster Care youth task force is an organization founded in Buffalo, NY in September 2017. This task force will include several individuals from the community such as local agencies, stakeholders, legislators, and active members. The members of the task force aim to improve the social and economic injustice of a population that has been excluded from access to services needed for higher education. Each individual of the task force will play a vital role in rectifying the injustice of the population by addressing three different levels of social work practice which includes micro, mezzo, and macro practice to create social change. The role and responsibilities of each member are based on

I am providing, home-based case management, community-based resource referrals and advocacy efforts for participants in Homeless Alliance’s (HA) supportive services for veterans and families program. As SSVF Case worker I am responsible for monitoring participants’ progress and needs, accessing and connecting participants to resources and tracking participants who have exited the program. As SSVF Case I manager/outreach Worker assists program participants in achieving goals as related to SSVF grant

HCC constantly assesses its programs and services to see were growth is need for the future. HCC has been involved in joint efforts across Dallas striving to end and avoid homelessness. The HCC is in progress to have new approaches developed with the emphasis on prevention, and housing criteria. This outlined will guide the agency over the next three to five year period. The strategy plan will expands the effort toward homeless teen, short the time that an individuals or families need to be homeless before receiving some help, and have a rapid re-housing for family who become homeless without fault of their own doing.

This population relies on the clinic for what the clinic calls integrative medical care (M. Lind, personal communication, May 10, 2017). In addition, the Santa Monica non-profit organization OPCC (n.d.), offers a “comprehensive system of care” for the “vulnerable and needy members of (the) community—homeless individuals, victims of domestic violence, at-risk youth, indigent Veterans, and people dealing with severe physical or mental illness or substance abuse”. The organization (which also partners with the Venice Family Clinic) has multiple locations and offers assessments for all. OPCC (n.d.) touts the success of its programs, reporting that the organization “has placed 966 people into permanent housing, 95% of whom remain housed.” As far as the homeless population, Elizabeth Anderson of the Human Services Division believes that Santa Monica “does more than its fair share in making shelter beds available year-round”, especially as compared to greater Los Angeles (personal communication, April 27, 2017). Santa Monica’s Police Department (n.d.) also has a homeless liaison unit which partners on this issue.

so I’m already familiar with lots of different organizations that provide services to peoples who needs substance rehabilitation and chronic homeless. I also work with different transitional and permanent supportive housing

The Community Health Center provides a service called Better Health Clinic that can enhance adult health and wellness by providing contraceptive services, pregnancy testing and counseling, achieving pregnancy, basic infertility services, preconception health, sexually transmitted disease services, breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, and other preventative health services. Social services can assist with applying for W.I.C. and ACA. They can also render assistance with adoption and stay at home programs.

When I began my journey with the Human Services Department at Lindsey Wilson College, I only knew one thing – I knew that I wanted to help people. Since I was a young girl, I have had a passion to help others, but passion alone just wasn’t enough. Passion without the understand of how to use it can actually cause more harm than good. This program taught me how to use my passion and my experiences along with education to help others.

These services can include case management, medication monitoring, life skills training, access to health and behavioral health care, transportation to and from appointments, vocational services, and life skills training." As mention above, the need for a permanent housing shelter is necessary and should be top priority. One cannot solve the homelessness issue unless one doesn’t figure out the cause and solve

Conclusion: Veterans need a coordinated effort that provides secure housing, nutritional meals, basic physical health care, substance abuse care and aftercare, mental health counseling, personal development and empowerment. Additionally, veterans need job assessment, training and placement assistance. There is no possible way to explain why some veterans end up homeless while another one does not. Just like the current state of our country, the reasons depend on the specific situation, but far too many veterans either do not understand that there is assistance for them or, for one reason or another, do not know how or where to begin the search for such assistance. My research has shown me that I will need far more education, training and experience to truly become an asset to homeless veterans in the United States. It has also solidified my desire to choose an area of concentration within the study of human resources specialist. My career path will be long and tough but the end result will be beneficial to many but most importantly to

was developed by the Skid Row Housing Trust with the intention of fighting homelessness with a holistic model to break the cycle of homeless. This particular organization inhabits the complexes with qualified individuals to connect residents with on-site case management, medical care, mental health services, substance use treatment, advocacy and community building (Skid Row Housing Trust, n.d.). The ground floor of the complex is occupied by the Department of Health Services’ Housing for Health division headquarters whose programs aims to house 10,000 of the county’s sickest, most vulnerable homeless in the following decade (Holland,

Denver’s homeless population runs in the thousands. Homelessness may be caused or exacerbated by an individual’s chronic mental or physical illness, all issues that the Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD), a member of the National Council for Behavioral Health, addresses. Integrated housing and recognizing the effects of trauma have already been a part of the services offered by MHCD. After participating in a National Council Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) Learning Community, MHCD created a workgroup to discuss integrating more TIC principles into the organization. From this, the concept of integrating these trauma-informed care principles into the center’s housing and residential services emerged.

Quick question; do you think there may be an opportunity for me do my internship in your training and development department? Right now, my priority is getting a hands-on experience in human resources particularly, training and development.

Internships are extraordinary opportunities to learn and grow. Internships are mostly designed to expand the depth and the breadth of the academic learning in the particular areas of the study. Internship is an opportunity to receive experience in applying all formulas, methods, theories in the classroom to specific experiences in the real world and to see how it actually works.