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BSHS 425 Week 2 Empowerment Approach with Your INDIVIDUAL
Dream Agency HSM Paper
Class,Envision the ideal human service agency YOU (not the team)
would like to create. This is your Dream Human Service Agency. It is
something you have always thought of and now is your opportunity to
create it on paper!**Note: It is NOT an existing agency as was
discussed in Week 1 for the Team Assignment–Community Agency
Interviews.You will use the Empowerment Approach as described in
the text, with your Dream Agency idea and write about it.Review the
12 principles presented by Hardina et al. in the section titled “Humans
Service Organizations and Empowerment” in Ch. 4 of Management of
Human Service Programs. Additional resources may be used.Discuss
the principles that characterize an empowerment approach to human
service management.Evaluate how you might apply these principles to
the developmental processes of your own Dream Human Service
Agency.Write a 1,050 to 1,400-word paper that applies the principles
mentioned above, to YOURDream Human Service Agency.
Specifically, address the following:§ How clients will be included in
the organizational decision-making processes§ How your dream
agency will decrease a sense of powerlessness with your clients and
increase access and quality of services for them§ Identify what
measures your dream human service agency will use to ensure diverse
cross-cultural needs are met
§ Consider and include the applicable areas of diversity:
socioeconomic background, culture, age, gender, sexual identity,
spirituality, disability, and other unique differences.§ Include the
ideological belief systems you, as a manager, would use. Describe how
empowerment plays a role for the overall agency, staff members, and
clients.§ Describe how the concepts of team building and
collaboration are met within your agency.