If we want our community to thrive and remain vibrant, we have to maximize the human potential of all our residents. Our community turns to human services professionals to tackle the complex job of building well-being throughout people’s lives. In childhood, human services support people by doing things like researching how early experiences affect child development, pushing for high-quality education for all children, and helping teens with drug or alcohol problems. In adulthood, it supports people by studying what affects people’s mental health, working to make housing safe and affordable, or providing literacy programs for adults who cannot read. Human services support older adults by doing things like exploring how social isolation affects people’s well-being, involving older people in tutoring programs so they can remain engaged in their communities, and providing meals to older people who can’t leave their homes. By supporting people throughout their lives, human services construct and maintain, and in some cases repair, well-being.
