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Activity Ideas for Developmentally Disabled Adults

When it comes to activities, disabled adults have distinctive needs. Unlike average adults, disabled people may require the help of respite workers to do certain activities. However, the needs of ...

Health and Human Services: Is it Right for You?

Are you interested in helping your community and working with vulnerable groups? Then Health and Human Services might be the right field for you.

Program aims to find developmentally disabled workers jobs

For adults with developmental disabilities, finding independence can be a significant challenge. The struggle often centers on finding employment. Many who are suitable for work simply don’t have the resources

Surprising Facts about a Human Services Degree

Listed below are a few common questions about the human services field and careers and various applications of a human services degree.

General Services: Specializing in Finding Tenants For You!

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The developmentally disabled face extra challenges when flying

Their disability is hard to discern, so airline policies on the mentally challenged are hard to enforce

Buildings and General Services

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Human Services Organizations Critical to Community Health, Study Finds

The report from the Nonprofit Finance Fund argues that collaborations between human services and healthcare organizations focused on addressing the social determinants of health can significantly improve community well-being....

WHO Director-General addresses US Department of Health and Human Services

Is health too big to fail? This is the central question addressed in Dr Margaret Chan’s lecture to the US Department of Health and Human Services. She notes some outstanding recent health achievements, but concentrates on forces, in multiple sectors, that have made threats to health more numerous, the causes more ominous, and the burden more onerous. In a world of unprecedented social inequalities, what makes…

How to Advance Equity for Fathers in Human Services

Learn about two resources that are ideal for helping organizations get started on advancing equity for fathers.

Would State’s New Rules for Developmentally Disabled Do More Harm Than Good?

Plan would encourage more integrated housing, require more activities outside in community -- but advocates for disabled call rules impractical, too costly

Building a More Inclusive World

Keystone Human Services (KHS) is a non-profit organization that is a part of a global movement to provide support and expertise to people with disabilities.

Dept. of Health & Human Services releases guidelines encouraging heart healthy children

For the first time, the government guidelines spell out activity for kids aged 3 to 5 and they say the pre-k set needs to get a fitness kick. Three hours a day can keep the doctor away later in life.

We help more than 1.4M people find human service programs

For over 121 years, Volunteers of America has been the charity taking on the most difficult tasks to help the most vulnerable and underserved.

Department of Human Services Will Offer English Classes, Preventative Services

DHS will work to address some of the root causes that lead people to come in for assistance.

FrameWorks Institute: Building a New Narrative on Human Services: A Communications Toolkit

Introduction<br>Welcome to Building a New Narrative on Human Services – a collection of framing research, recommendations, and sample communications designed to help leading voices explain the importance of human services<br>This toolkit models the recommendations emerging from a Strategic Frame Analysis® – a multi-method investigation into the communications aspects of a social issue that yields evidence-based, actionable reframing tools and strategies. FrameWorks Institute conducted this…

Hazard Pay Sought For Those Who Work With Developmentally Disabled