Assessment Process and Needs Problem Statement
BSHS/452

Assessment Process and Needs Problem Statement The population Team C’s community organization, Human Services Association, serves is families, children, and the elderly. The population is in Bell Gardens, CA. The need is evident every day. The children do not have proper daycare and are home alone although their parents work. The cost of daycare is more than low income families can afford. The elderly are home alone without social workers to implement a care plan. Our organization will provide a safe and supervised environment, a nutritious afterschool snack and help with homework Low income adults and families can come to the organization for help with food, clothing, and parenting classes. Our organization will provide; housing, rental, and utility assistance. The elderly in our area live alone. They often do not have proper meals or someone to check in to ensure that medication is taken and physician appointments are kept. Social workers can visit them at home, set up transportation to our center and provide for general medical help at the center. There is a nurse practitioner on site for the elderly clients and the children. Their responsibilities would be to fix booboos because children do fall and assess the elderly clients, blood pressure, sugar level, and mood. The elderly who come into the center would get help and socialization. The elderly clients, who are able, can read to the younger children, and do arts and crafts with them. The situation can be beneficial for the children and the elderly clients. The children can get personalized attention, and the elderly can feel as if they are a part of something in which they are useful and needed.
Need and Why Need Occurs Social programs which are designed to help under-privileged people are now experiencing budget cuts which are unprecedented. Last week, Congress announced its’ plan to cut 4 billion dollars from the Food Stamp program. To that end, guidelines to qualify for the existing FS program have also been revised to limit program entry and participation. There is an urgent need for the department of Human Services to create programs, through grant funding, which can help endorse independent living for seniors who are living longer nowadays, create resources for parents who are experiencing the harsh effects of a struggling economy and now find themselves unable to support their families properly, and finally, for innocent, vulnerable children who have been victimized to have a reliable contingency plan created for them to assist in the healing process. These needs arise as different circumstances occur within our society and there is no plan of action for it. Fifty years ago, the examples I just listed were rarely heard of; not to say they didn’t exist, but the instances were so rare that there were probably not addressed or swept under the rug (for lack of knowing how to address it in the best interest of the client). Now, these issues are so prevalent until there has to be a program/resource created to address these problems. Applying for and receiving grant funding would help tremendously in getting a program started to address these issues.
Impact if Problem is Resolved Many consequences exist from solving the problem of needing thorough services as well as care for children, families, and senior citizens. Families with a large range of ages within the community will benefit by receiving healthier conditions to live with. Programs from Human Services Association will improve and even potentially possess more employees to work with people in need. The organization’s service delivery will improve because it will possess the ability to provide more services and offer more options for programs. The need for thorough services as well as care for children, families, and senior citizens relates to Human Services Association because this organization offers a vast number of programs for those target populations. The organization helps this target population on a daily basis with basic needs as well as care.
Evidence of a Problem The Human Services Association provides a variety of services. The evidence of the community problems is hone through the clientele that receive the services provided. An organization can function as an evidence based practice. When the organization uses an evidence based practice, the organization utilizes employees whose expert knowledge is cohesive with the needs of the clientele. The organization must research the needs of the surrounding community and possible clientele. The organization can then utilize the research and match the employee to the service in which they are best suited. The Human service Association offers services such as affordable and dependable daycare. The evidence of this needed service is shown and implied when researching the surrounding community children. An employee with daycare experience and knowledge in early childhood would be best suited for this service. Another service offered is elderly care. Many of the elderly in the surrounding community do not have the basics needs and rights that are associated with acceptable living conditions. Evidence based practice would match the elderly with socialization and basic needs such as food and shelter. The employees best suited to provide these services should have knowledge in elderly care as well as a comprehensive knowledge in recognition of signs of depression which can be a prevalent problem in the elderly who have not been successful in providing basic needs for themselves. The evidence of problems or needs is clear when researching and keeping record of what services the community is requesting. The Human Services Association can keep current with the evidence of the problems and services needed by keeping comprehensive logs of what services are requested.

Reference
Human Services Association. (2013). Human services association. Retrieved from http://www.hsala.org/