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Assignment:
Review the Learning Resources, specifically the ones about crisis and response.
Additional library research on responding to crises in human services.
Choose a recent crisis. Complete research on this recent crisis and find one example of how organizations, government groups, or nonprofits responded during this recent crisis. Your example should be connected to human services in some way, and the example may come from a source like a newspaper or magazine.
Write a paper in which you:
- Summarize the recent crisis you chose.
- Summarize the organizational, government, or nonprofit response to that crisis that you researched.
- Describe the effects of the crisis on leadership, human services professional practitioners, and service users.
- Evaluate how the leadership response in your chosen example was effective or ineffective. Use articles from the Learning Resources and your own research to support the evaluation.
References
Esaki, N. (2020). Trauma-responsive organizational cultures: How safe and supported do employees feel?Links to an external site. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 44(1), 1-8.
Parnes, M. F., Bagrodia, R., Wightman, K., Singh-Sawhney, R., Satterthwaite, M. L., Knuckey, S., Bryant, R. A., & Brown, A. D. (2020).
Posttraumatic stress symptoms and access to services among human rights advocates: The mediating roles of organizational encouragement of support seeking and occupation-related appraisals.Links to an external site. Psychological Services, 17(2), 170-177.
Anne Dombo, E., & Whiting Blome, W. (2016). Vicarious trauma in child welfare workers: A study of organizational responses.Links to an external site. Journal Of Public Child Welfare, 10(5), 505-523.
Gifford, D. (2020, March 25). COVID-19 crisis: Response management guide.