human services
Community support programs
Human services is the umbrella term for work that addresses people's basic needs—housing, healthcare, food assistance, mental health support, child welfare, and similar programs.
The field encompasses social work, counseling, case management, and community outreach.
She got her degree in human services and now works at a homeless shelter.
The term emphasizes practical help over clinical treatment.
- social workProfessional community aid practice
- elder careAssistance for seniors
- health careServices preventing and treating illness
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- child welfareProtecting minors' wellbeing
at-risk youth · assistance · public assistance · food stamps · case management · intake assessment · community · foster care · group home · nurse · vulnerable populations · crisis intervention · social safety net · family support · referral · childcare · cultural competence · aid
- city departmentsfire department, public safety, city planning, city attorney, water department
- Hawaii Governmentstate legislature, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state constitution, judiciary
- welfarewelfare, welfare reform, welfare system, SNAP benefits, public assistance
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, health education, epidemiology
- charitycharity, charities, donations, donation, donating
- sociologysocial structure, social class, social institutions, social norms, social mobility
human servicescommercial services
Paid professional offerings
corporate giving · faith-based charity · private enterprise · mutual aid · private sector
human servicesfinancial services
Economic offerings from institutions
commercial services · information technology · capital investment
human servicesluxury services
Expensive personalized assistance
wealth management · concierge services · corporate welfare · shareholder interests
human, humane, inhuman, services, inhumanity, humanize, humanely, subhuman, dehumanize