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What is Human Services?
What can I do with a Human Services Degree?
How do I know if Human Services is for me?
How much does it cost?
Where do I Start?
Who can I call if I have more questions?
Will my courses from Delaware Tech transfer to other colleges?
How long will it take to finish my degree?
Is Financial Aid available?
The following six questions relate to general knowledge, skills and attitudes that appear to be required in all human services work. If these sound interesting, then Human Services may be the field for you.
Are you interested in understanding the nature of human systems: individual, group, organizational, community and society, and their major interactions?
Do you want to understand the conditions of healthy and dysfunctional behaviors?
Do you want to develop skills in identifying and selecting interventions that promote growth and goal achievement?
Are you interested in developing skills in planning, implementing and evaluating interventions?
Do you want to know how your personal values impact your decision making abilities?
Would you like to process skills that are required to plan and implement services?
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What is Human Services? |
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Human Services is a program for meeting basic health, welfare, and other needs of a society or group. In our program, you will acquire skills and experience to work with both individuals and groups.
You will find this program valuable if you want to plan and work with community services programs, provide individual and group counseling services, develop human relations skills to work with individuals from diversified backgrounds or if you are just interested in courses for transfer to another institution.
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What can I do with a Human Services Degree?
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The jobs cover a wide range of services working in government agencies or private firms that require personal and human relations skills. Some examples are:
Family Support Worker
Alcohol Counselor
Youth Worker
Drug Abuse Counselor
Residential Counselor
Mental Health Aide
Case Worker
Rehabilitation Case Worker
Child Abuse Worker
Social Work Assistant
Gerontology Aide
Crisis Intervention
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How do I know if Human Services is for me?
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Do you enjoy working with people? The primary purpose of the human services worker is to assist individuals and communities to function as effectively as possible.
Do you want to help people? A strong desire to help others is an important consideration for a job as a human services worker. Individuals who show patience, understanding, and caring in their dealings with others are highly valued by employers. Other important traits include good communication skills, a strong sense of responsibility, and the ability to manage time effectively.
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How much does it cost?
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The Business Office can provide information concerning course costs and other student fees.
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Where do I Start?
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1. Visit our Future Students Web site and download an application or obtain by calling (302) 888-5288 or (302) 571-5343. Complete and return to the Wilmington Campus with the required application fee.
2. Take the College Placement Test (CPT) scheduled by the Admissions Office
3. Request that high school and/or college transcripts be sent to the Registrars Office
4. Meet with Delaware Tech counselors to discuss CPT results
5. Meet with an advisor to plan your schedule
6. Apply and register early for the best selection of classes
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Who can I call if I have more questions?
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Please contact Sandy Waltz, Senior Secretary in the Human Services Department to schedule an appointment with your advisor.
Phone: (302) 571-5377
E-mail: swaltz1@dtcc.edu
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Will my courses from Delaware Tech transfer to other colleges?
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We have articulation agreements with the University of Delaware, Wilmington University, Delaware State University and Salisbury University. Counselors and technology advisors have a transfer matrix outlining specific course by course equivalencies. The transfer matrix is also available online. If you are planning to transfer to another college out of state, the decision rests with the receiving institution. But, we are a fully accredited institution so courses transfer as those from other colleges would.
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How long will it take to finish my degree?
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That depends on whether you are striving for a diploma or an associate degree; and how many courses you take each semester. See the curriculum check off sheets available on this Web site.
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Is Financial Aid available?
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Students who need financial assistance are strongly encouraged to contact the Financial Aid Office on their home campus
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Are you interested in understanding the nature of human systems: individual, group, organizational, community and society, and their major interactions?
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Students will learn to understand human development, group dynamics, organizational structure, how communities are organized, how national policy is set, and how social systems interact in producing human problems.
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Do you want to understand the conditions of healthy and dysfunctional behaviors?
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Graduates will have understanding of the major models of causation that are concerned with both the promotion of healthy functioning and treatment-rehabilitation.
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Do you want to develop skills in identifying and selecting interventions that promote growth and goal achievement?
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Workers will be able to conduct a competent problem analysis and to select those strategies, services or interventions that are appropriate to helping clients attain a desired outcome. Interventions may include assistance, referral, advocacy, or direct counseling.
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Are you interested in developing skills in planning, implementing and evaluating interventions?
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Workers in the field will be able to design a plan of action for an identified problem and implement the plan in a systematic way. This requires an understanding of problem analysis, decision-analysis, and design of work plans. This generic skill can be used with all social systems and adapted for use with clients or organizations. Skill in evaluating the interventions is essential.
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Do you want to know how your personal values impact your decision-making abilities?
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This requires awareness of one’s own values, an understanding of organizational values as expressed in the mandate or goal statement of the organization, human service ethics and an appreciation of the client’s values, life style and goals
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Would you like to process skills that are required to plan and implement services?
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If you answered yes to this question as well as the five above, then Human Services may be for you.
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