High School Block:

Human Services 110

The purpose of this course is to introduce learners to the skills and potential career pathways related to the human services field. Learners will connect skills and interests with various avenues related to caring for others. Throughout the course, learners will interact with the professional roles and responsibilities associated with human services pathways including Orientation to Human Services, Understanding the Client, Professional Requirements and Career Connections. They will examine the impact of personal and systemic biases on individual care while exploring appropriate interactions with clients. This course includes an introduction to career-specific responsibilities to help support learners in making personal and career decisions.

CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS

Orientation to Human Services

  • Understanding human service
  • Custodial vs. developmental services
  • Local community services
Understanding the Client

  • History and culture
  • Addressing biases
  • Behaviour and skill training
  • Client profiles
Professional Requirements

  • Professional boundaries
  • Professional responsibilities
  • Role modelling
  • Advocacy
  • Assessment and intervention
  • Documentation
  • Confidentiality
Career Connections

  • Labour market information
  • Career pathways
  • Business opportunities
  • Career development opportunities
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GRADE 11

Strand: Orientation to Human Services

Big Idea: Understanding Human Services

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate an understanding of factors related to human services.

Global Competencies: CM, CL, CTPS, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Investigate the roles of human service providers in the community.
  • Examine how diverse populations can be supported by a variety of human service providers.
  • Discuss a variety of services within the field.

Skill Descriptor: Recognize ways to support community needs through human services.

Global Competencies: CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Explain custodial service.
  • Explain developmental services.
  • Discuss volunteer opportunities within the community.
  • Identify a variety of career opportunities within the field.

Strand: Understanding the Client

Big Idea: Responsibilities to the client

Skill Descriptor: Examine the role of the human service professional to promote positive social roles for clients.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SGC, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss social roles and potential negative assumptions based on personal attributes. (parent, physical appearance,
  • Describe forms of discrimination.
  • Examine historical misconceptions associated with services provided to marginalized peoples.
  • Investigate programs in the community that foster client independence.
  • Recognize personal biases that could influence interactions with clients and identify strategies to address them.

Big Idea: Client Needs

Skill Descriptor: Engage with the needs of the clients.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss the individualized nature of services provided.
  • Discuss behaviour as a form of communication.
  • Engage with human service professionals.

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate a holistic understanding of the client.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SGC, ICE, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss how personal experiences influence interactions with others.
  • Examine ways to establish a positive relationship with a client.
  • Examine ways to avoid biases when identifying client skills and needs.
  • Create a holistic personal profile.

Strand: Professional Requirements

Big Idea: Roles and Responsibilities

Skill Descriptor: Recognize professional roles and responsibilities when working with clients.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss depth of responsibility (purview).
  • Examine intervention policies from a variety of agencies.
  • Discuss the significance of maintaining a professional relationship with clients.
  • Describe the importance of client confidentiality.
  • Differentiate the professional boundaries in community-based vs agency-based service provision.
  • Examine the composition, functions, and limitations of board-run Human Services.

Big Idea: Training

Skill Descriptor: Engage with required professional skills and training

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Examine assessment tools to determine interventions for individual needs.
  • Investigate additional certifications required by some agencies.
  • Discuss the human service role of client advocate.

Strand: Career Connections

Big Idea: Career Pathways

Skill Descriptor: Gather information on careers related to human services.

Global Competencies: SASM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Connect skills from career portfolio to potential pathways in human services.
  • Investigate career opportunities in human services.
  • Examine labour market information on human services pathways.
  • Describe a variety of post-secondary pathways.

Skill Descriptor: Understand business-related services in the human services profession.

Global Competencies: CM, ICE, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Engage with entrepreneurial opportunities.
  • Discuss the role of managerial skills.
  • Discuss ways to be agents of change in the field of human services.
  • Discuss the role of unions related to human services related sectors.
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