For your paper, you will select a target population from the following list:

1. Women and children
2. Elderly
3. African Americans
4. Hispanics/Latinos
5. Immigrants
6. Veterans
7. Mentally ill
8. Disabled

Your paper must include the following:

1. Research and examine the history of social welfare policy as it pertains to this population, discussing their specific needs from a social welfare program.  Have they been oppressed or discriminated against, suffered from lack of income or homelessness, or have they had other needs, such as access to healthcare?
2. Identify the laws that have been passed and programs put into place that have either helped or restricted their access to care and support.
3. Identify the philosophical attitudes and perspectives that have led to either the support or lack of understanding for and marginalizing of this group.
4. Identify the types of resources currently available in your area for this population.
5. Discuss any relevant personal experiences or insights you have had relating to this population, if applicable.
6. Explain the types of roles that human service workers perform in working with this population.  Highlight the characteristics of the human service workers that would be necessary for their position.
7. Discuss the types of interventions or strategies that are beneficial.
8. Include a discussion of how you feel this population could be better served and list at least two ways in which a human service worker could work as an agent for change on their behalf.

4 page requirement with sources.

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Human Services

Order Description
This essay is needed as a part of an application for scholarship grant. It must state why am I interested in pursuing a degree in Human Services and why is Human services necessary for a nurse in the psychiatric area who also works within the psychiatric forensics unit to peruse a degree in Human Services.
can this essay be written

I can say that a part of my job is to assist persons to assist with the integration of persons with mental illness and a forensics history (criminal history)
How does Human Services help those in need.

It must be no more that 150 words