Who or Whom? A Program Innovation to Improve the Writing Skills of Human Service Students

Writing is perhaps one of the most essential skills of the human service practitioner. However, many human service students lack the writing skills required to perform the necessary duties of their profession. This article describes an innovative initiative designed to strengthen the writing skills of students enrolled in a baccalaureate-level human services program

Self-Injury and the Role of the Human Service Professional

Given the broad field of human services, human service professionals are likely to encounter self-injury. Thus it is critical that they become knowledgeable about self-injury and understand how to best intervene with clients who self-injure. Through case studies the readers will learn about helpful ways to respond to a client who harms him/her self through the use of a non-judgmental and supportive stance. This manuscript has direct implications for direct human service providers, human service educators, human service students, and supervisors by demonstrating the wide continuum of services humans service professionals can provide to clients who self-injure including: utilizing basic helping skills, educating oneself, issues of confidentiality, how to make referrals, and the importance of creating self-injury protocols

Athletics & Recreation Master Plan Sub‐Committee Final Report

In 2000 the Athletics & Recreation Department at UMass Boston Implemented a five year strategic plan that would more realistically align sports sponsorship with available financial and facility resources. We reduced the number of sports sponsored from 20 to 14 maintaining 7 sports for women and 7 sports for men. The only sports maintained without a facility were Men’s baseball and Cross Country Track. We eliminated football, swimming and indoor & outdoor track and field for men and women. Since 2005 The Athletics & Recreation Department has been focused on University wide transition and planning efforts. In that period we have experienced three changes in the Chancellors office, two changes in Athletics Director Position and our operation has moved from a university department to a university division. We have engaged in university‐wide strategic planning and master planning while redefining the role of athletics within the campus community. This four year process of transition & planning has been at the same time taxing and invigorating while allowing the Division of Athletics & Recreation, Special Programs & Projects to emerge as a university service entity supportive of the primary mission of the university. The division has engaged in areas of the university heretofore out of its purview. It has established internal and external partnerships that are transformative and beneficial to the entire community. This report focuses on facilities that will allow for the established partnerships to flourish, that will uphold the new standards for high quality facilities that have been implemented over the last four years on our campus and most importantly this report addresses in a comprehensive way a vision for athletics & recreation at UMass Boston that will put us in the fore front of those institutions that offer athletics & recreation for the purpose of the health and both physical and mental wellness of students, faculty and staff. It does begin with a pride of place

Midtown Blocks planning study : Report of the advisory council of experts

33 pp. Maps, figures, appendices. Pblished May, 2001. Captured September 17, 2009.The charge to the ACE was sixfold: 1) review and assimilate the information provided in the research materials; 2) analyze and study the context of the Midtown Blocks; 3) gather input from stakeholders and concerned citizens, and 4) answer (as the ACE's own position paper) the same three core questions regarding Role, Use and Linkage posed to citizen groups and stakeholders. This position paper of the ACE provided them with the tools to offer 5) an evaluation of current proposals for the Midtown Blocks against the ACE's Role, Use and Linkage criteria; and 6) recommendations to the Mayor and City Council, the Planning Director and the Inter-Bureau Team, regarding a development concept and strategy for the Midtown Blocks. [From the document

Midtown Blocks planning study : Report of the advisory council of experts

36 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Includes maps and figures. Published May, 2001. Captured November 16, 2007.[The document] provides a synopsis of the ACE [(Advisory Council of Experts)] activities and its recommendations. It is not at this time a document that has undergone public review. In its current form, it provides a contextual framework and a specific set of recommended actions focused in and around the Midtown Blocks. The ACE recommendations can provide a new platform for public discussion and action by the City. [From the document