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The document discusses the critical role of human service professionals in public policy development, highlighting their lack of involvement due to insufficient recognition and support from elected officials. It emphasizes the need for better engagement and collaboration between government agencies and human service educators to improve policy outcomes. The document outlines steps for effective policy implementation and advocates for a collective approach among human service agencies to address existing challenges in the field.

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The document discusses the critical role of human service professionals in public policy development, highlighting their lack of involvement due to insufficient recognition and support from elected officials. It emphasizes the need for better engagement and collaboration between government agencies and human service educators to improve policy outcomes. The document outlines steps for effective policy implementation and advocates for a collective approach among human service agencies to address existing challenges in the field.

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Running head: MEDIA AND THE HUMAN SERVICE AGENDA 1

Media and the Human Service Agenda

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Introduction

I agree with the human service agenda that human service professionals play a key

role in enacting public policies. However, they are not involved in the process because public

policy development may not be well defined or as well-publicized as politics. In fact, most of

the elected government officials have no particular interest in policy development and human

service professionals (Harris et al., 2019). Moreover, charitable and private groups that

provide human service and delivery programs receive funding from the county, state and

federal governments (Lu et al., 2017). Government agencies and private groups should

involve human service educators enacting better public policy decisions.

Indeed, when elected officials do not have the vision, ideology, mentality to seek and

find ways to better serve, develop and implement programs to the community then as human

service providers we are stuck and cannot expand our capabilities. In my perspective, the

robust solution for this would be facilitating internal nominations or elections for officials

that will be fit and meet the human service provider’s needs. An interesting issue that is

elaborated in chapter 18 is that every level of government is doing very little in facilitating

human service provision and instead it funds third party organizations to implement these

services.

Chapter 18 also brings up an illustration on the process of implementing a policy and

have it heard for review. The steps begin from, regulation writing, advisory bodies to public

and voluntary agencies, special task groups and studies, networking with other organizations,

participation in media activities, inviting agency officials and policymakers to participate in

your programs (Halls et al., 2020). This is an important process or steps to get out voice

heard. If as regional or district Human Service Agency got together and implemented these
MEDIA AND THE HUMAN SERVICE AGENDA 3

steps into practice, we would be able to expose some of the current issues that exist in the

Human Service Field.


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References

Harris, H. S., & Maloney, D. C. (Eds.). (, 2019). Human services: Contemporary issues and

trends. Allyn & Bacon.

Lu, J. (2017). How political are government contracting decisions? An examination of human

service contracting determinants. Public Administration Quarterly, 183-209.

Halls, W. D. (2020). Comparative Education: Contemporary Issues and Trends. United

Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, 7 Place de Fontenoy,

75700 Paris, France..

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