Trends- Human Service June 24, 2013 Trends This paper will relate economic and political events to current trends in the human services field. Identify demographic trends that influence future needs in the delivery of human services. The team will focus on the North, South, East, West of the USA, and Military serving in foreign lands for our collection of data for this paper. East One major trend in the East coast that has affected Human Services professionals is the Terrorist
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to develop long-term relationships with customers and stakeholders • Profits – must have adequate financial performance in order to nurture and develop an ethical culture. Because of the actions of the American Red Cross following 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, their benefits of business effects were damaged. Employee commitment wavered because of the actions of the organization. Because of the lack of monitoring some employees or volunteers were doing unethical and fraudulent things. This misconduct
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the planet Earth for millions of years. In modern times risk management plans are a necessity because of the wide variety of natural disasters occurring all over the world. It is thought that because of the frequency and increase in severity of hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tornadoes that the United States alone experiences an average loss of one billion dollars every week. (C. McMillan, 1998) Therefore it is obvious why a procedure of disaster preparedness, mitigation, management
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Select the correct answer for each question by highlighting your choice. 1. The term client refers to all of the following EXCEPT a. individuals, family, and neighborhood b. the working poor, AIDS patients, and the underclass c. Hurricane Katrina victims, Oklahoma City bombing victims, and Mississippi River flood victims > d. students, teachers, and coworkers 2. Two components of a problem are >a. a description and a course of action b. a situation and a difficulty c
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Iowa. Miller has created over 30 sculptures and some reach heights of 3 stories (Negrottosgallery.com). Miller uses dead trees that were left behind from Hurricane Katrina as his medium along with several other carving tools and a chainsaw. His pieces bring life back to the beach roads, the same roads that were demolished by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The subject matter would be the oak wood that is used along with the various stains and coatings that he adorns his pieces with. Miller uses various
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the shutdown of businesses, loss of homes and possessions of residents caused much pain and human suffering. We will conclude with an executive summary which will summarize our decision for or against rebuilding of New Orleans. Prior to the hurricane New Orleans was a tourism magnet. The city offered many restaurants, festivals, and great weather. These positives made tourism a thriving market. Other boons for the economy of New Orleans were the mining, transportation, and warehousing along
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attached to live models. How many people do you think are actually looking at the undergarments instead of the body parts ( Kathy D 2007)? . On the flip side...there are good influences via the media. When a catastrophe strikes such as hurricane Katrina, people are seen reaching out to help others. The tv show "Extreme Home Makeover" is a great example of how strangers pull to together to help those less fortunate. Influences such as these can provoke the thought for people to help more in their
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and strategies by corporations that combine social and business value and address issues perceived as being part of the social responsibility of the company. For example: Wal-Mart, Fedex, Home Depot provide disaster relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 which with more than $792 million raised. b)
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put New Orleans in a bad location. Who is Bienville? He is a person who put New Orleans in a bad location if you ask me but is just my options. The reason I say this is because of Hurricane Katrina and some of the wars that happened that was very bad and very bloody. The first topic I will talk about will be Hurricane Katrina.The storm hit New Orleans in 2005.It totally wiped away the whole city by costing the United States billions of dollars to help New Orleans get back up on their feet.The storm
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environmentalist, assigns a probability (p) of a Katrina-like hurricane of 1/130 in his cost-benefit analysis for flood protection. However, the levees that protect New Orleans also put other regions at greater risk. You may assume the frequency of other floods is greater than Katrina-like events (Vastag & Rein, 2011). • The new levees that were built in response to Katrina cost approximately fourteen billion dollars (in 2010). This is in addition to the direct costs of Katrina (eighty-one billion dollars in 2005)
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