Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
It is important to know how to intervene with diverse client groups as everyone’s individual needs and circumstances may be different. Basing suggested interventions off of evidence-based practices and taking the assessment into consideration are ways to fufill this competency.
Practice Behaviors
- Critically Choose and implement interventions to achieve practice goals and enhance capacities of clients and constituencies.
- Apply Knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person in environment, and other multidisciplinary frameworks in interventions with clients and constituencies.
- Use inter-professional collaboration as appropriate to achieve beneficial practice outcomes.
- Negotiate, mediate, and advocate with an on behalf of diverse clients and constituencies.
- Facilitate effective transitions and endings that advance mutually agreed upon goals.
Evidence
Field
I was able to assist a client in order to help pay her electric bill that she otherwise would not have been able to afford. I filled out a LIHEAP Application for her so that her bill would be paid for the next few months. I was also able to pack food boxes for a variety of clients with different dietary needs. The boxes were individualized and I was able to help deliver them to clients to address food insecurity.
Food Boxes
Academic
A classmate and I wrote up a Grant Proposal for Groups, Families, and Organizations class. This grant was intended to create a community based support group program for elderly with chronic illnesses.