Management of Human Service Programs

Although there are discrepancies the author has provided an ad hoc generic definition of human services that includes a solid ground for conceptual analysis. “Human services is defined here as social services designed to meet human needs that are required for maintaining or promoting the overall quality of life of the prospective service populations. A social service is a systematically organized communal response, namely human services refers to institutionalized systematic services rather than sporadic help given by family members, friends, or occasional good Samaritans” (pp. 6-7). Defining human services as social services designed to meet human needs also leads to six elements that are common to all human services. These are provider, recipient, environment, organization, need, and method (Zins, 2001, pp. 6-7).

When an organization starts to make decision about the programs it will offer they have to start thinking about the processes and outcomes they want to use and achieve through their program. They need to find the best ways to run their program that follows their mission and produces outcomes that help support that same mission. Process and outcome evaluations in a human service setting help the organization to better understand the outcomes of their programs and the processes in which the outcomes came. (Yuen, Terao, 2003) This paper will walk you through an explanation and outline of a process and outcome evaluation plan for the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency. This process and outcome evaluation plan would be helpful in the organizations

Evaluating the Consultation and Education Department funding at the Greenby Mental Health Center is the focus of this paper. The centers funding has been reduced. Additionally the reduction in funding will cause the organization to consider closing down their consultation and education department. First I will describe one process evaluation measure as well as one outcome evaluation measure, which could be an optional recommendation for the Greenby Community Mental Health Center. These measures will help to show the

First, would look at my measurement method to make sure that it is reliable and valid. Making sure that the measurements are representing the people and the program accurately, enough sample size is use to represent the program, and make sure there is no participants contamination. Second, the time from when the program started and when the evaluation process starts can also show that the program have no impact. It takes a long time for programs to work out the kink and bumps along the way and sometimes having an evaluation conducted within a year will not show the program at its full potential. There is also the sleeper effect where the program will not show impact until a much later time. Having an open and clear communication with the stakeholders will let me know what they are looking in the program evaluation so that I can focus on those aspects to make sure I use accurate

Clegg and Smart (2010) noted that the term outcome measurement process is often interchangeable with achievement, goal, objective and indicator. Furthermore, Clegg and Smart (2010) went on to identify these terms, goals, outcomes present as essential elements to assist in identification of relevant data for program evaluation. Definitions of terms recognizes that goals are a broad statement of the ultimate aims of the program, outcomes are the changes in the lives of recipients, organization communities and those impacted by the program, and indicators indentifies specific, measurable information that can be collected or tracked to show that outcomes have occurred (Clegg & Smart, 2010).

Fifth, incorporate an evaluation team to assess the outcome of the problem to assure; the needs of the program are met. Always stay focus.

The Morningside center is an afterschool program designed for at-risk youth. The Department of Human Services is requiring an evaluation component for all future contracts. Marian is in search of an evaluation program to show that Morningside center is achieving the right goals for the adolescents that attend the program. As a staff member, I suggested in the meeting that the best evaluation program to use would be the target-problem scaling. As I mentioned above, the target-problem scaling is a method of evaluating changes that take place over time. (Kirst-Ashman & Hull, 2015) It is also a process where the problem is identified, a plan takes place, and changes in the target problem are measured. (Kirst-Ashman & Hull, 2015) First off, I think this method would work best because the Department of Human Services is requiring a evaluation, which means a evaluation of the program has to take place to see if there is a problem. The second reason why I would use this method, I think this method would work best because in this method it evaluates change over time. The method will be able to determine if this program at Morningside has helped and made improvements in the adolescent’s lives. The third reason why I think this method is best because, it uses a target-problem change scale. This scale is implemented to view

In today’s world, peoples have a more remarkable appreciativeness for human differing qualities and more significant respect for each person’s having to accomplish to his or her most astonishing potential in work and life. Oftentimes the examination is upstretched in the matter of what has revolved out badly with our overall public today, what has carried on the issues, and what can be done to right them or where can nationals go and search for administrations in their group? Today society is suffering diverse approaches that cause them to go and demand assistance at the workplaces of Human Services. Various sorts of Human Services and laborers exist today. Because of the purposes of Human Services society had involvement administrations to

Losing funding when running a human service program can be devastating to not only the person running the program but also to those who are taking part of the services that the program provides. To lose the backing from the faith-based funders and have to rely strictly on the funds from the federal government changes the entire concept of how the program can be ran. Losing faith-based funding and going to a government ran program will have an impact not only on the clients that use the program but also the staff members that are there because of the mission, beliefs and vision that the program originally had.

As a general rule, these guidelines are an acceptable method to further the process. These subsets allow for the further identification and streamlining of the process. This series of processes allows for the identification of variables that could develop into

Measure the changes and improvements in the knowledge, skills, attitudes, or behaviors of a person who receive services and assess the aggregate of these outcomes in relation to the program's stated purpose and the organization's mission.

Evaluation: The Program Director will be responsible for evaluating the program. He will base the program evaluation on the program’s goal and outcome objectives. He will also supervised that sessions are carried out on time and quality content of the information provided in each session. The evaluation report will focus on how clients feel in terms of psychosocial well-being. And how behavior towards LGBT family members has changed in the Hispanic

Harrelson et al (2009) defines formal program evaluation as a “systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and outcomes of a program to allow for informed judgements about program improvement, program effectiveness, and decisions about future programs.” For any program to be worthy of funding, a formal program evaluation is required (Ivanov and Blue, 2008). On the other hand, results-based management “involves identifying the impact of an intervention, formulating its outcomes, specifying outputs and inputs, identifying

There are several different ways to evaluate the program. A process evaluation can be done to unveil how the program was implemented, and if it was implemented in the way it was intended (Savage, Kub, & Groves, 2016). The program’s outcomes can be evaluated to measure if the obesity rates of the target population improved, and if this improvement was due to the intervention. Lastly, informative evaluations can be conducted to measure if the materials such as the brochures and training kits, were

In order for effectiveness-based program planning to be effective, data needs to be collected to ensure that the decision making is in the client's best interest, regarding the population of clients, types of problems and services that are most effective (Kettner et al., 2017). The following will be discussed in the paper; data components, client flow chart, and units of service. The data components involve inputs, throughputs, intermediate outputs and outcomes (Kettner et al., 2017). Inputs involve the variable, example, purpose, and questions to be considered. Throughputs involve service to be provided, service definition, service task, and method of intervention. Intermediate outputs involve service to be provided, units of service, and