Preparation

Before writing your assignment, use the Human Services Doctoral (DHS) Program Library GuideLinks to an external site. to find current (within 5-7 years), scholarly, and primary resources to support your work.

Instructions

Complete the following:

• Compare the human services system in the United States to the system in the United Kingdom or Canada.
  • Consider differences in funding, availability of services, and accessibility of services.
    • Support your comparison with citations.
• Analyze multidisciplinary collaboration within different human services systems.
  • How might multidisciplinary collaboration differ between people working in for-profit, nonprofit, and government organizations?
  • What interpersonal skills are important to engage in effective multidisciplinary collaboration?
• Compare how human services professional characteristics might or might not differ within different types of human services systems.
  • What characteristics are important for a human services professional to demonstrate? For a leader? Regarding leadership, consider: should the leadership characteristics of a human services leader differ from a corporate leader? Why or why not?
  • How would the different types of systems (for-profit, nonprofit, government) impact human services professionals? Leaders?
• Analyze human services in the United States.
  • Given all that you have discussed above, what do you think about the state of human services in the United States?
  • What are its strengths and what could be improved?
    • Support your analysis with citations.

Additional Requirements

Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Convey purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences. Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
• Length: 4-6 typed double-spaced pages.
• References: Use scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles.
• Format: Use current APA style and format for references, in-text citations, and headings, as appropriate. Visit the Evidence and APALinks to an external site.section of the Writing Center for help with APA as needed.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Review the Human Services Profession and Systems rubric before submission.

ePortfolio

You may choose to save your assignment to your ePortfolioLinks to an external site. as you complete iterations of your work for your final assignment.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:

• Competency 2: Explain the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration to resolve human services issues.
  • Analyze multidisciplinary collaboration within different human services systems.
• Competency 5: Explain human services systems, organizational structure, and funding in the United States.
  • Compare the human services system in the United States to the system in the United Kingdom or Canada.
  • Compare how human services professional characteristics might or might not differ within different types of human services systems.
  • Analyze human services in the United States.
• Competency 6: Address assignment purpose in a well organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
  • Convey purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
  • Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.