User:Human Services Scholars

Human Service is a seperate academic discipline from social work and more information is needed to explain the differences between the two fields.

Human services is the study of social technologies (models and methods of practice) and service technologies (programs and systems) that work at the micro-, mezzo-, and macro-levels of society.

The mission of human services is to advance autonomy of service users, to help build social capital and civic engagement, to make informal or formal human service systems more egalitarian, efficient and effective, and to advocate for positive social change at all levels of society by any means necessary.

The academic discipline of human services takes a multidisciplinary approach and focuses on practical solutions to complex social welfare problems of the whole person, community, and the global society.