DHS#: 111 Vocational Assessment/Evaluation
This service provides an appraisal of a person's aptitudes, interests, and abilities in various areas of job performance through the collection, organization and analysis of information obtained from work records, tests, and interviews.

DHS#: 112 Vocational Guidance and Counseling
This service aids individuals in overcoming problems pertaining to employment or related to working situations. It assists people in resolving interpersonal conflicts in their work settings; fosters changes in attitudes, values, and perspectives, which interfere in obtaining and/or retaining employment or improving employment status or satisfaction. Counseling may be on a one-to-one or on a group basis.

DHS#: 113 Job Readiness
Job Readiness helps individuals to learn the basic tools for obtaining employment suitable to their particular skills and talents. It may include advice pertaining to some or all of the following: (1) resume preparations (2) dress and personal appearance; (3) filling out applications and writing letters applying for a job or responding to a job ad; (4) interview techniques; (5) taking employment tests; and (6) general orientation to occupational choices. The activities may operateon a one-to-one basis or on a group basis.

DHS#: 114 JOB PLACEMENT AND REFERRAL
This service assists individuals in obtaining paid employment by matching the particular skills, talents, and capabilities of a job seeker with the particular skills, talents, and capabilities demanded in a job vacancy. The referral component of the service may include directing a job seeker, after evaluation, to some special program where he/she might have an opportunity to improve his/her employability. Elements may include appraisal of interests, capacities, and talents through testing and test evaluation, referral of the job seeker to selected employers for a mutual assessment of employment prospects, and employment-related advice and guidance. Various employment registries and job banks are utilized to aid the placement and referral program.

Service Cluster: 120 Employment/Vocational Training Services

DHS#: 121 JOB TRAINING
This service prepares individuals for specific types of employment opportunities by means of instruction in the performance of specific skills or execution of designated tasks. it may include recruitment of instructors, instructional materials, supplies or equipment, and adequate facilities. The definition covers activities know as internship, apprenticeship, and in-service or on-the-job training.

DHS#: 122 WORK ACTIVITY/ADJUSTMENT
This service arranges work-type activities for persons who are unemployed or unemployable. It does not emphasize paid employment, but rather provides opportunities for achieving the satisfaction and sense of accomplishment derived from doing something worthwhile. The activities afford opportunities to appreciate work for its own sake, for development (physical, social, psychological) achieved through the accomplishment of work tasks.

DHS#: 123 SHELTERED EMPLOYMENT
This service arranges a controlled and protected working environment and paid employment activities with individualized goals to assist person to progress toward productive vocational status. Elements may include: (1) diagnostic evaluation and testing' (2) controlled and supervised working experience for training, work adjustment or employment in conjunction with other services, such as counseling and group therapy; and (3) assessment of progress, referral, and follow-up. For the most part, the program is geared, on a long-term basis, for the handicapped and/or elderly persons who are not employable, alcoholics, and other socially maladjusted persons who need a Job during the period of readjustment to the community.

DHS#: 124 HOMEBOUND EMPLOYMENT
This service arranges for paid employment in the home for individuals whose physical, mental, and/or emotional handicaps or age prevent them from leaving home. The activities may include (1) vocational testing, counseling, and training, (2) arrangement for suitable paid work in the home; (3) supervision of the work experience; and (4) follow-up.

Service Cluster:130 Income Maintenance Services

DHS#: 131 GENERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
This service encompasses a variety of programs designed to provide case income or vouchers on a regular basis to individuals and families in need. The various programs under these services, entailing a means test, are income-related or gap-filling case payments or vouchers designed to bridge all or part of the gap between an established target standard of living and the individual's or family's available resources. Also included in this service category are financial aid programs of voluntary agencies. Examples of programs are AFDC, General Assistance, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Food Stamps, Utilities Assistance grants.

DHS#: 132 EMERGENCY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Emergency Financial Assistance is designed to provide financial assistance or grants to individuals or families to help them during times of personal emergency and crisis to secure food, clothing, shelter, medical care, utilities and home furnishings. Assistance is available directly to the recipient or protective payee/guardian. This service may also include "one-time" financial assistance.

DHS#: 134 MEDICAL INSURANCE
This service encompasses those programs which are concerned with the provision of financial aid to individuals who are unable to purchase health care because of their economic conditions. Programs may include: Medicare, Medicaid, Private Carriers, Prepaid Health Plans, and Pharmaceutical Services which provide assistance in meeting medical bills for individuals such as the elderly, disabled and those having low-income.

Service Cluster: 140 Financial Aid for Education

DHS#: 141 EDUCATIONAL STIPENDS/GRANTS
This services is designed to enable students to continue their educational studies through the provision of specific amount of money or other aid to assist them in attaining their educational, professional, or vocational goals.

DHS#: 142 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE DURING TRAINING
This service is designed to provide the individual with money to aid in covering living and work expenses during job training when they are not receiving wages. The individual (student) may receive a specific period (e.g., monthly, weekly) subsistence allowance based on cost-of-living or average unemployment insurance rates.

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Human/Social Goal #2: Optimal Health Service Cluster: 200 Medical Treatment Services

DHS#: 201 HEALTH RELATED SCREENING AND/OR EVALUATION
Health related screening and/or evaluation provides screening and evaluation to individuals or groups in order to maintain their adequate physical functioning by early detection of any diseases or impairments, or to determine their capabilities relative to specific life goals (e.g., vocational). It includes general physical, speech, hearing, and vision screening and/or evaluation, and referral to health providers after screening and evaluation.

DHS#: 203 OUTPATIENT MEDICAL CARE
Outpatient medical care provides diagnostic and specialty treatment services to individuals suffering from illness, injury, or physical conditions which require skilled care, but do not require overnight hospitalization, It includes private physicians, and specialty and community health centers/clinics that provide such services as orthopedics, pediatrics, obstetrics, neurology, geriatrics, dietetics, physical medicine, surgery (minor) and radiology.

DHS#: 205 PRENATAL HEALTH SERVICES.
Prenatal health services provide for maternity care including regular examinations by a physician, laboratory tests, counseling, health education, and social service referral.

DHS#: 206 CHILD HEALTH SERVICES
Child health services include physical examination and childhood immunization for infants, preschool children, and school-age children of income eligible households The immunizations include vaccines for diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, rubella and measles.

DHS#: 207 DENTAL SERVICES
Dental treatment provides for regular dental health care. Elements may include cleaning, tooth extraction, filling of cavities, and replacement with artificial materials.

DHS#: 209 MEDICAL SUPPLIES
This service is designed to provide and distribute medical supplies such as beds, feeding tables, wheelchairs, prosthetic devices, accommodative aids (i.e., low vision aids, eyeglasses), to eligible persons. The provision of pharmaceutical services include Prescribed drugs, insulin, diabetic testing materials, devises such as hypodermic syringes and needles, certain over the counter drugs and protein replacements prescribed by a physician and provided by licensed pharmacies approved by the State Medicaid Program.

Service Cluster: 220 Mental Health Treatment Services

DHS#: 221 EMERGENCY/SCREENING SERVICE
Emergency/Screening Service provides 24-hour service, 7 days a week, to people in personal crisis. Emergency/Screening offers immediate crisis intervention and service procurement to relieve client distress and maintain or recover his/her level of functioning. Emphasis is on stabilization, so that the client can actively participate in needs assessment and in service planning.

DHS#: 222 OUTPATIENT SERVICES
Outpatient service provides therapeutic treatment and related activities to people who are experiencing mental health problems but are not in immediate crisis. Such persons need services that are longer-term than those provided by Emergency/Screening. Yet, such services are also less structured than daily or semi-daily involvement in a partial care program Outpatient service activities most often include individual or group therapy; medication provision and monitoring; and evaluation of the client's progress.

DHS#: 224 PARTIAL CARE
Partial care provides several hours of daily or serni-daily program involvement to maximize a client's independence and community living skills, with a concurrent effort to reduce unnecessary psychiatric hospitalization. Partial care provides or arranges for a full range of daily living and related services necessary to meet the comprehensive needs of individual clients.

DHS#: 226 RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CARE
Residential Treatment Care provides a live-in setting that helps clients who are experiencing mental health problems achieve independent living. Residents live in the least restrictive environment necessary to assure safety and promote self-sufficiency. Residential Treatment Care service activities include housing, placement, daily living education, social growth experiences, and procurement of other needed community services.

DHS#: 227 CLINICAL CASE MANAGEMENT
Clinical case management includes the provision of services activities that ensure a unified, coordinated and integrated client service system for the high risk chronically mental ill individual that emphasizes mental status assessment, direct client support, and therapeutic intervention. Activities include, but are not limited to, post-intake assessment, service planning, service linkage and ongoing monitoring and evaluation.

DHS#: 228
Actual physician time to do psychiatric evaluations for purpose of diagnosis and medication monitoring and prescribing.

Service Cluster: 230 Substance Abuse Treatment Services

DHS#: 231
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Screening and Assessment is designed to detect the possible or probable existence of a drug or alcohol condition or dependency/addiction, in order to inhibit potential danger to others. Included is the administration of various tests / examinations, development of family history of drug/alcohol use, referrals to appropriate treatment, and/or educational services.

DHS#: 232
Outpatient Service includes nonresidential treatment activities such as individual counseling, family counseling or group therapy. The aim of outpatient service activities is to aid the abuser and his/her family to understand the severity and causes of the problem and to develop skills to eliminate abuse.

DHS# 233 OUTPATIENT DETOXIFICATION
Outpatient Detoxification provides close monitoring and treatment activities of short duration for individuals withdrawing from drug addiction. Methadone detoxification is usually provided over a more extended period of time in conjunction with other treatment services.

DHS#: 234 RESIDENTIAL NON-HOSPITAL DETOXIFICATION
This service is a non-hospital residential counseling oriented service designed to provide a short-term stay (5-7 days) for individuals in the withdrawal stages of addiction. It includes intake, evaluation, medical services, and discharge planning to other levels of care.

DHS#: 235
Inpatient Care for Alcoholics and Drug Abusers provides therapeutic treatment to individuals experiencing intense or problematic mental, psychological, or behavioral reactions to the use of drugs or alcohol. Treatment is conducted on a 24 hour basis in a protective environment aimed at the alleviation of extreme drug/alcohol reactions. Elements include detoxification procedures; treatment for physical, mental and psychological conditions; administration of lab services medication; and special treatments (e.g.), methadone); counseling for patients and families; arrangements for services after discharge.

DHS#: 236 DRUG-ABUSER
Residential Transitional Services are designed to prepare the recovering abuser/addict for community living. Services may include room, board, case management, social and vocational counseling, advocacy, assistance with daily living skills, and specialized programming to control addictive behavior (e.g., halfway house, quarter way house, extended cue facility.)

Service Cluster: 240 Home Care Services

DHS#: 241 HOMEMAKER ASSISTANCE
Homemaker Assistance helps maintain normal family Functioning in times of temporary stress precipitated by the absence or incapacity of the regular homemaker. Under this program, trained personnel go into homes as substitute homemakers (or housekeepers) and assume responsibility for routine household activities such as menu planning, budgeting, child care, general household management, shopping, and food preparation.

DHS#: 242 HOME DELIVERED MEALS
Home Delivered Meals provides meals to convalescents, elderly, and handicapped persons in their own homes.

DHS#: 243 PERSONAL CARE
Personal Care is a program designed to provide basic nonmedical personal cue in the home. The program consists of activities such as bathing, grooming, and assistance in dressing.

DHS#: 245 HOME HEALTH CARE
Coordinated Home Health Care provides basic health service to selected patients who can be care for at home. The service consists of part-time bedside nursing care under medical supervision and may include home health aide services and extension of certain basic hospital services such as occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, medical social service, or homemaker service.

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Human/Social Goal #3: Optimal Provision of Basic Material Needs

Service Cluster: 310 Emergency Basic Needs Service

DHS#: 311 EMERGENCY SHELTER
The provision of short-term shelter to homeless persons or persons requiring protection during times of personal emergency or crisis until they can find permanent housing for themselves.

Service Cluster: 320 Food Services

DHS#: 321 GROUP DINING/NUTRITION SITES
The provision of meals at a central location to special target groups such as the elderly, disabled and the poor.

Service Cluster: 330 Housing Services

DHS#: 331 HOUSING LOCATION ASSISTANCE
Housing Location assistance helps individuals and families find and move into adequate housing to meet their temporary or long range needs. This service is geared to the special needs of those who are not in a position to help themselves, The assistance may be in the form of organized information and referral at, transporting or directing clients to prospective housing, assisting clients in the selection of available housing, and helping clients in dealing with landlords, utility companies, and other related business concerns.

DHS#: 332 RENT AND MORTGAGE ASSISTANCE
Rent and mortgage assistance makes good quality rental housing available to eligible low-income families at a cost they can afford. Payments are made to owners of approved rental housing to supplement the partial rental payment of eligible tenants. The supplement covers the difference between the tenant's payment and the market rental.

DHS#: 333 HOUSING MAINTENANCE/REPAIR
This service provides for the performance of repair activities needed to maintain safety and efficiency of a household. Such activities include: replacing window panes; repair of electrical plugs and cords 'furniture repair; repair of stairs, fours, and walls; minor exterior repairs, painting, and pluming. This services also includes the installation activities needed to maintain safety and efficiency within the household and those special tasks needed for adaptation of home for the handicapped. Such activities include: installing screens, store windows, shades, curtain rods, handrails, and caulking.

DHS#: 335 HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
Housing development is designed to encourage the maintenance, improvement, and rehabilitation of existing housing, and the construction of new housing, especially for low-to-moderate income families, through the provision of various types of financial inducements including low-interest loans, loan insurance, and direct grants. Assistance may be made available directly to private or public contractors, or to banks or other financing organizations. This service is designed to offset market factors such as the absence of capital, lack of profit, and financial risk which normally discourage investment in low-to-moderate income housing, or the rehabilitation of substandard housing.

Service Cluster: 340 Transportation Services

DHS#: 341 TRANSPORTATION BROKERING
Transportation brokering is the arranging of transportation for clients to meet human needs such as media, social service and recreation/socialization. This service would include providing information to the client and purchasing services.

DHS#: 342 SOCIAL SERVICE TRANSPORTATION
This service provides transportation to clients to insure access to social services. This includes door-to-door and route services.

DHS#: 343 MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION
Medical transportation services provide transportation to insure access to medical care. This services includes door-to-door and route services and may also be of emergency in nature.

DHS#: 344 SPECIAL GROUP TRANSPORTATION
This service provides specialized transportation to clients who fall into certain target groups such as the physically handicapped or mentally retarded who cannot use general transportation services effectively.

Service Cluster: 350 Alternative Living Arrangements

DHS#: 351 FOSTER HOME CARE
Foster home care arranges a substitute family life experience in an agency supervised home for individuals who need care for a temporary or an extended period during which the normal family environment is either nonexistent or greatly hampered, due to some social, emotional, or physical condition. Efforts are made to either reunite the family or begin permanency planning proceedings. Included are: (1) supervision of the persons placed in a faster home to ensure that total care is provided and all basic human needs are met; (2) work with the natural family during placements (3) work with the foster family to assist adjustment; (4) follow-up readjustment assistance to the individual and (5) recruitment of foster homes.

DHS#: 352 GROUP HOME CARE
Group home care arranges and supervises a Family-style residential group living experience for individuals who may require separation from their families, or are incapable of independent living. The placement experience is designed to facilitate the individual adjustment into the community. Most often a group home living arrangement includes 6 - 10 clients with the supervision and assistance of a house manager and round-the-clock professional staff.

DHS#: 353 SKILLED DEVELOPMENT HOMES
Skill development homes attempt to provide the best total program of services to help handicapped individuals in need of such a residential program to achieve his or her optimum development for self-care, independence, and social living.

DHS#: 355 SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
Supervised independent living arrangements provide living arrangements for those persons who can live on their own with close supervision. This living arrangement often includes apartments occupied by one or two clients or are monitored by a trained supervisor who lives in the same complex and visits the clients daily.

DHS#: 356 INDEPENDENT LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
Independent Living Arrangements provide living arrangements such as apartments for those individuals who may be able to live on their own with nominal or no supervision. Clients are monitored solely through regular visits from their case managers but are able to receive emergency assistance at all times.

DHS#: 357 TRANSITIONAL HOUSING
Housing designed to be temporary while residents situation stabilizes to the point in which they can care for their needs on their own.

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Human/Social Goal #4: Optimal Opportunity for the Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills

Service Cluster: 410 Basic Life Skills

DHS#: 411 LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION
Life skills education provides practical education, guidance, or training in the activities of daily living, Type of activities may include instruction in personal appearance dealing with closing and hygiene, learning to organize and dress for school or work'home management skills such as budgeting, money management, meal planning and nutrition, cooking, decorating, home maintenance; social and community mobility such as shopping; consumer rights, leisure activities; negotiating community supports, such as learning how to get to and from school; developing natural supports; and cultivating citizenship's, social interaction with peers, and life planning.

DHS#: 413
This service provides instruction for visually and physically handicapped persons in techniques needed to compensate for handicapping conditions. Included are techniques for performing activities of daily living, for communicating with others, mobility training for the handicapped in their own homes and community, and provision and training in the use of special devices and aids.

DHS#: 414 PROVISION OF TRAINING MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
This service allows the supplying of aids to blind, visually impaired, hearing impaired and other physically handicapped persons to assists them in accommodating to their handicap in the areas of self-care, vocational training, education and independent travel.

Service Cluster: 420 Parent Education

DHS#: 421 GROUP PARENT DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
Group parent development training instructs parent or potential parents in a group setting on effective parenting skills for resolving or preventing parent/child conflicts in order to bring about a strengthening of parent/child relationships.

The focus of this service should address several of the following skill areas related to improving communication and relationships:

listening and letting the child communicate feelings

focusing on positive and using positive language styles/words to promote positive self-esteem

helping children solve conflict problems by exploring alternatives/choices, rather than over-intervening

knowing how to criticize misbehavior or acts instead of the child

disciplining out of love, rather than frustration where the goal is to educate/teach rather than punish/hurt

disciplining using methods of teaching "logical consequences" where the child learns to accept responsibility for his/her actions

knowing how to set clear age-appropriate limits

A second component of parent development training should address basic parenting child care skills such as:

proper food, clothing and shelter

medical care

Safety

hygiene

emotional/social growth and development

intellectual growth and development including involvement with schools

physical growth and development

parental stimulation and supervision related to emotional, social, physical and intellectual development

DHS#: 422 PARENT AIDE
This service assists and teaching basic parenting skills on a one-to-on basis rather than a group approach. The service is most often provided to young parents overwhelmed with child rearing responsibilities. The service activities include family fliendsitip, listening without being judgmental, assistance in and teaching child care skills, and assistance in problem solving.

Service Cluster: 430 Community Education

DHS#: 431 COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION
This service is designed to promote and maintain community health through the provision of information to the general public and to special groups on preventative and corrective personal health care practices and the hazards of the environment. Elements include distribution of printed materials, radio and television "spots", newspaper advertising, talks to large and small groups by health experts, workshops, and "outreach" efforts to meet the health education needs of certain disadvantaged groups and neighborhoods, previously unmet.

DHS#: 432 CONSUMER EDUCATION
This service is designed to educate the public at large with respect to an entire range of consumer/community protection, safety, social services, problems, and remedies so that they are enabled to make the most of their money and/or social services resources. The educational activities are conducted through verbal presentation (mass meetings, lectures, workshops), printed materials, and use of radio and television.

DHS#: 435 COMMUNITY PROTECTION AND SAFETY EDUCATION
This service is designed to promote and maintain community safety through the provision of information to the general public and to special groups regarding methods of protecting themselves, their property, and other persons from harm and destruction due to criminal activity. An attempt is made to develop realistic attitudes and encourage appropriate actions in relation to various criminal dangers such as robbery, rape, auto theft, and assault, by reducing misconceptions and inappropriate fears and providing information concerning effective precautions, appropriate actions if victimized, and appropriate use of protective service agencies.

DHS#: 436 DISABILITIES AWARENESS
This service is designed to educate the public regarding developmental disabilities and promote the acceptance of disabled individuals in the community. Information is provided through innovative educational programs in the school systems, speakers bureaus, disability awareness, special events held in school systems, speakers bureaus, disability awareness, special events held in schools, malls, etc. media and advertising productions, events and informational materials.

Service Cluster: 440 Alternative Education Services

DHS#: 441 DAY TREATMENT ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION FOR YOUTH
Day treatment provides both an alternative education and a social rehabilitation option for youth who are unable to adequately function. In addition to experiencing learning difficulties, most often the youth have demonstrated disruptive social behavior or have committed a delinquent act. The range of service activities most often includes intensive counseling, individually tailored behavior modification therapy/strategies to motivate change, life skills training, vocational skills training, special interest electives, and instruction in personal habits, responsibility and productive decision making.

DHS#: 442 DAY TRAINING SERVICES
Day training services provide care, training and education services to all students 3 though 20 years of age who have been determined as Day Training eligible by their local school district's child study team. The goal of the Day Training Program is to enable severely and profoundly developmentally disabled individuals to obtain their maximum degree of independence and self-sufficiency Interdisciplinary teams in the Day Training Centers assess the student's abilities and develop a program specifically designed to the individual student. This program emphasizes gross and fine motor skills, cognitive ability, communication, self-help, and social development.

DHS#: 444 LITERACY EDUCATION
This service provides either an individualized (tutorial) or group education approach to individuals who are unable to read or write to adequately perform daily Irving activities. In addition to the actual instruction, service activities include individualized testing to determine the most appropriate approach and materials to be utilized.

Service Cluster: 450 Formal Education

DHS#: 459 CONTINUING EDUCATION
Continuing education is designed to provide opportunities for ongoing educational experiences to those who wish to broaden, intensify, or "keep up" their knowledge of their fields, or to those whose advancement or continuation in a particular field requires continuing or additional education. Elements are made available to those who have met basic educational or training requirements or who have conditionally acceded to a particular position but whose continued competence or development is enhanced by continued education. Elements may involve both credit and noncredit, degree-related or non degree related courses, and may include such things as special workshops, seminars, and conferences, as well as the more typical classroom instruction.

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Human/Social Goal #6: Optimal Individual and Collective Safety

Service Cluster: 610 Protective Services

DHS#: 611 CRISIS INTERVENTION
Crisis intervention is designed to provide an immediate response to a personal crisis wherein a life is endangered by such things as suicide threats or attempts, psychotic episodes, drug overdoses, juvenile/family crisis, and domestic violence. Service activities may include such things as "hot-lines" crisis centers, and mobile service units for immediate medical and/or psychological treatment and for emergency and referral. Crisis Intervention is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Specifically trained service staff are available in handling a crisis or violent situation. This may include a team of skilled individuals that go to the client's home to take the necessary steps to stabilize the crisis situation.

DHS#: 612 PROTECTIVE SERVICES INVESTIGATION
This service is conducted when an agency receives a referral alleging the abuse, neglect, exploitation, and/or abandonment of an individual or individuals. The purpose of the investigation is to determine what harm the client has suffered or is at risk of suffering. All relevant information is gathered including the circumstances which led to or may lead to harm to the client. These are important factors in determining the services to be provided to assure protection of the client.

DHS#: 613 EMERGENCY PLACEMENT
When a client is in need of emergency shelter services, emergency placement activities provide the client with temporary shelter, Placement of an abused or neglected client is a service activity sometimes necessary to ensure immediate and appropriate protection. Placement of the homeless is also necessary to ensure that the basic needs, such as shelter and food, are met.

DHS#: 614 PROTECTIVE-CUSTODY
The aim of this service is to obtain temporary legal authority over an individual who is either unable to protect and/or care for himself/herself or who is a victim of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. The focus is to protect the client, to insure that he/she is receiving adequate care, and to facilitate a permanent plan for the client.

Service Cluster: 620 Legal Assistance Services

DHS#: 621 LEGAL ADVICE
This service provides for advising persons of their rights and responsibilities before the law, and interpreting legal codes and processes as these relate to specific needs, issues, problems, and concerns.

DHS#: 622 LEGAL REPRESENTATION
This service provides an attorney for representing an individual in civil, non-contingent fee matters. The elements include legal representation before district justices, courts, and administrative agencies; challenges to and research into conflicting or discriminatory applications of laws or administrative rules, practices, or regulations; and development of methods and remedies to serve eligible clients who have legal problems in specific areas of civil law. Legal representation is provided most commonly through volunteer legal aid societies and publicly funded legal services organizations Other providing this service include private attorneys appointed by judges on a case by case basis, volunteer attorneys, and bar associations.

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Service Cluster: 630 Law Enforcement

DHS#: 631 POLICE PROTECTION
This services is designed to provide a protective machinery or process to the citizenry to assure the observance of all civil and criminal laws. Service activities include all enforcement activities of police: (1) patrolling of streets; (2) investigations of alleged law violations; (3) collection, analysis, and presentation of evidence; (4) apprehension and charging of law violators; (5) presentation of testimony to judicial bodies.

DHS#: 634 PROBATION AND PAROLE
Probation and parole is designed to treat and rehabilitate law violators so that they are reasonably prepared for return, at the end of a specified period of restriction, to their normal fee status in the community. Two broad elements are involved -- probation and parole.

Probation is a method aimed at rehabilitation of selected offenders involving conditional suspension of the imposition of sentence under supervision and treatment in the community, and the abandonment of punitive action if specified conditions (primarily good behavior) are complied with. Under this procedure, a "probation" officer is legally charged with maintaining contact with the "probationer" with a view to administering the controlled status and specific or general conditions of probation concerning client mobility, employment, social relationships, and the like. The objective is to effect the restoration of the offender to normal community living so that controls may no longer be necessary.

DHS#: 634 PROBATION AND PAROLE (continued)
Parole constitutes a conditional release of a convicted person before completion of the term of imprisonment to which he/she has been sentenced. Under this process, the paroled individual, though released from detention, continues to remain in legal custody of the state or its agent and may be re-incarcerated in the event of legal misbehavior. The parole aspect of the program is penological measure designed to facilitate the transition of the offender from the highly controlled life of the penal institution to the freedom of normal community living.

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Human/Social Goal #7: Optimal Social Functioning

Service Cluster: 710 Day Care Services

DHS#: 711 CHILDREN DAY CARE
Child Day Care is a service that provides Personal care and supervision for children during a portion of the day (but not 24 hours) during times when parents of the child's caretaker are working or unavailable. Child Day Care settings or service options can include day cue centers or family day care homes. Child Day Care service activities most often include provision of nutritious meals, routine health care, socialization and recreational activities, and other age-appropriate activities to enhance functional skills for daily living Child Day Care is not a substitute for publicly funded educational programs such as kindergarten or specialized treatment services for developmentally disabled children. Some day care services emphasize caretaker involvement in meetings and workshops to enhance parenting and caretaker skills.

DHS#: 712 ADULT DAY CARE
Adult Day Care provides specialized training and care to adult or elderly individuals with physical, mental, or psychological limitations. The service assists persons in the acquisition of social, intellectual, and personal skills in order to maximize their potential for normal and independent functioning in society the service is provided for some part of a 24-hour day, in a group setting. Elements include an individualized program plan; educational, developmental, and recreational activities; health, nutrition, and social service activities; a nutritious meal and snack program; helping arrange for transportation, and assistance in basic tasks of everyday living.

DHS#: 713
Early Intervention/Day Care for Special Needs Children provides cue to children for a portion of the day, but less than 24 hours. This care provides educational/developmental/therapeutic services (with the exception of medical or psychiatric) which are designed to maximize the child's potential in the attainment of age-appropriate developmental levels in the areas of affective,cognitive, communicative, perceptual, motor, physical r social development. Equally important is training the parents to be able to continue these activities in the home, and the socialization incurred by the child and parent during treatment,

Service Cluster: 720 Socialization/Group Support Services

DHS#: 721 SUPPORT GROUPS
Support Groups utilize group processes to support those individuals exhibiting similar problems or temporary stress situations. Typically, group membership involves persons of similar circumstances. This includes adjustment to a physical or mental disability, divorce or separation, widowhood, remarriage, unemployment, single parenting, spouse abuse, child abuse, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, etc. The group process provides the opportunity for members to share and learn from each other the methods of coping More effectively with life situations. It stresses and attempts to change attitudes by providing alternatives to the members' current levels of functioning.

DHS#: 722 SOCIAL RECREATION
Social Recreation provides organized group activities of a relaying or entertaining nature designed to promote a person's ability to socialize and manage his/her leisure time. Activities may include arranging trips to art shows, musical events, movies, sports activities, and field trips to historical points of interest. The emphasis is on providing recreational opportunities that promote positive social interaction skills.

Service Cluster: 730 Counseling Services

DHS#: 731 .ADJUSTMENT
Supportive counseling promotes sound personality development and social functioning in persons experiencing personal and interpersonal problems, whether pertaining to basic personality, temporary situation stress or a handicapping condition. Efforts are made to develop personal and social strengths which can help people cope more effectively with handicaps and/or life situations and their stresses. Attempts are made to change attitudes, broaden perspectives of available alternatives, increase communication skills, examine goals and values, etc.

DHS# 733
Therapeutic counseling for individuals assists an individual with a diagnosed metal disorder or problems of an emotional nature in which a trained professional (e.g., psychiatrist, psychologist, or supervised service worker) establishes a professional relationship to (1) remove, modify or reduce existing symptoms; (2) mediate disturbed patterns of behavior; and (3) promote positive personality growth and development. It may use individual psychotherapy and/or aulieu therapy techniques deriving from several theoretical/clinicai perspectives (i.e., analytical, behavioral, etc.)

DHS#: 734 THERAPEUTIC COUNSELING-FAmMILY
Therapeutic counseling for families utilizes therapeutic methods to enable families to resolve problems or temporary stress of situations which they have encountered. Family therapy seeks to assist family members (including children) in meeting and overcoming problems of personality adjustment, marital relations, parent/child relations, child care and development, social deprivation, situation stress, and/or those related to a family member's physical or mental disability mental/emotional disorder and sessions much be conducted by a professional trained in therapeutic techniques.

Service Cluster: 740 Companionship Services

DHS#: 742 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
Big Brothers/Sisters provides companionship, guidance, and/or role modes through volunteer activities of a same sex adult to children for whom such a person is unavailable (e.g., fatherless/motherless homes) or only limitedly available (e.g., alcoholic parent, extensively absent parent, institutionalized children), It may also provide special types of big brothers or sisters to enhance support of adults where there are special problems or needs, such as handicapped children or delinquent youth or to normal children of parents who are in some way limited or handicapped (e.g., mentally disabled, blind/deaf, physically handicapped, emotionally disturbed). Elements include the eliciting, selection, and screening of both big and little brothers and sisters; systematic matching of big and little brothers and sisters in terms of needs and relevant social characteristics; special orientation, developmental, and supervisory program to big brothers and sisters; and provision of or referral for auxiliary services to little brothers and sisters or their families, as needed.

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Human/Social Goal #8: Optimal Opportunity to Access the Human Services System

Service Cluster: 810 Information & Referral Services

DHS#: 811 INFORMATION AND REFERRAL
Information and Referral offers immediate data regarding available community resources or services as a result of an expressed need/inquiry/complaint. This may include the provision of any data determined necessary to adequately respond to the request (e.g., eligibility, criteria, contact person, office hours, location of service, available transportation). In addition information and referral may include a process for transmitting chent data to the identified resource/service when considered appropriate.

DHS# 812 TRANSLATION
Translation service provides assistance for persons with limitations in oral or written communication, or for persons with limited English language ability.

DHS#: 813 OUTREACH
Outreach enables a client's access to all available community services through a process of "out of the office" personal contact, needs identification, and interagency referrals.

Service Cluster: 820 Assessment/Case Management Services

DHS# 822 ADOPTION SERVICES CASE MANAGEMENT
Adoption Services Case Management refers to specific means by which the caseload of clients in need of adoption are managed. This service incorporates the activities of General Case Management, adoption processing, adoption complaint investigation intended to expedite the legal transfer of all parental rights and responsibilities from the original parent or legal parent to another person who desires to assume those rights and responsibilities.

Service Cluster: 830 Community Organization/Advocacy

DHS#: 831 SELF ADVOCACY
Self advocacy is designed to encourage individual clients to advocate for themselves and for members of their group in order to obtain the services and personal rights and respect to which they are entitled. Assistance may take the form of training in specific skills, of providing encouragement and motivation to those needing it, or of providing information and resources to clients.

DHS#: 832 CLIENT ADVOCACY
Client Advocacy is designed to provide individual clients with specialized advocates, whose responsibility is to inform clients of their rights in specified areas (e.g., consumption, veterans, mental health), or in relation to specified agencies (e.g., social security administration, welfare departments), and to represent the clients in relation to the relevant organizations to insure that clients obtain the services to which they are entitled in the time and manner they are entitled to them. This service also provides assistance to individuals and groups to lodge complaints related to discrimination and to obtain recourse through means other than those involving enforcement of laws.

DHS# 833 SYSTEMS ADVOCACY
Systems Advocacy includes programs directed toward assuring that every effort is made by agencies for individual client or client groups to have their respective needs assessed and met. These services are provided by formally designated agencies which are not themselves direct service providers.

DHS#: 834 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
Community Organization entails intervention at the community level oriented toward influencing community groups, service providers and institutions toward solving problems that threaten individual functioning. The focus is on organizing and developing available and potential community resources that are untapped or underutilized. The practice of community organization generally consists of three strategies: a) actively involve broad participation of a wide spectrum of people at the community level in pursuing change; b) technical skills for resolving problems that exist in processes involved in service delivery; and c) organize small groups in a local area to demand increased resources and service.

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Human/Social Goal #9: Optimal Effectiveness/Efficiency of the Human Services Delivery System

Service Cluster: 910 Management and Planning Support Services

DHS#: 917 VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT, TRAINING AND PLACEMENT
This service is a systematic process for effectively recruiting, training and placing volunteers to perform appropriate human service activities of direct service or administrative/plarming. This service may be performed as either a coordinated, centralized function for the entire human services system or performed by individual agencies.

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