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Department of Human Services

Human Service Workers Improve Communities

Are you motivated to help people in your community improve their lives and families? Do you wish you could be an advocate for clients in the services offered to them by the community and local government? Would you like to work with interesting non-profit organizations? This variety of choices is embeded in the work of human services.

Virtually any non-profit setting in the Fort Wayne area could be the employment goal of the person who holds a degree in human services. Although not an inclusive list, the range of client populations run from developmentally disabled children to incarcerated adolescents to persons with chronic medical problems to physically abused women, all who can benefit from social services.

Human service workers are able to work with clients and the infrastructure of organizations as well as potentially be involved in funding acquisitions, social action, neighborhood development and community education. Direct work with clients includes the management of services that individuals and families receive, helping clients to manage themselves well while seeking or receiving services and crisis intervention.

About the Program

This program prepares students to become human services professionals who can meet the needs of clients and communities within a diverse society. To earn this degree, you must complete 125 credit hours. The curriculum includes IPFW General Education requirements and core courses in subjects such as diversity, advocacy, case methods, psychopharmacology for human services, and theories of therapy. Integrated in the B.S. in Human Services curriculum are minors in both Psychology and Sociology.