challenges affecting human service organizations

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challenges affecting human service organizations

What do you think are the key challenges affecting human service organizations today? How well are our organizations and professions adapting to a dynamic environment?

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Leading and Changing Organizations

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Leading and Changing Organizations

Think of a leader of a human service organization whom you have seen in action.  What did that leader do that was effective or ineffective?  What might have made that leader more effective?

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Evaluating Human Service Programs

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Evaluating Human Service Programs

If you were a program director or administrator, please discuss what steps would you take to build evaluation into ongoing processes?

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developmental disabilities

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Designing and Using Information Systems

Think about an organization that serves individuals with developmental disabilities, what kind of information would decision makers need in order to plan, implement, monitor, and improve programs?

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Program Goals

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Managing Finances to Meet Program Goals

To what degree is it possible for an agency to maintain its commitment to a central mission when funding patterns change and new types of activities are supported?  How would you deal with a situation in which you could get funding only if you changed the basic focus of your agency’s programs?

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Supervisory Relationships

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Supervisory Relationships

How would you describe the approach that you, yourself, would take if you were in a supervisory position? What do you see as the most important characteristics of an effective supervisory relationship?

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Creating Organizational Designs

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Creating Organizational Designs

Consider a large human service organization with which you are familiar.  What would you see as the best way to departmentalize it–by function, program, process, geography, client, or use of matrix design?  What factors would you take into account in making this decision?

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policy

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policy players groups

You’ll explore a policy that has been hotly debated.
Discuss some of the policy players (groups) that have been involved in the debate:

  • what are their values?
  • what efforts did they make to sway elected officials?
  • What role have the courts played in your issue?
  • What are some of the long-term effects of policy? (Use data to make your point.)
  • As one policy is implemented, often alternatives arise. What are new policy concerns and what actions have been taken?

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infographic, please submit a separate bibliography/works cited).

FAIR MARKET

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FAIR MARKET

1. Why is the concept of Fair Market Value important in healthcare transactions? How is it different in the healthcare context than other industries?

2. Why is it important to document the process and results of your fair market value analysis?

3. Explain the concept of “commercially reasonable” and why it is used in evaluating healthcare transactions.

4. Why would the government be concerned about patients getting freebies? When might it be in the government’s best interest to allow such gifts and to prohibit such gifts?

5. Using the LEIE Database, find one provider from Fort Worth and one provider from Dallas that is currently excluded from participating in Federal Healthcare programs.