Allied Human Services, AAS

Allied Human Services Degree

The current trend toward comprehensive and unified delivery of human services and the need for workers who can function in a variety of human services situations are reflected in BCCC’s combining classroom instruction and clinical/fieldwork experiences. Thus, students are able to bridge the gap between academic theory and the real world of social services work. The grouping of these options under the Allied Human Services umbrella meets workers’ need for career mobility, and provides service organizations with flexible sources of manpower.

Every potential human services student is urged to look at each program’s separate description in order to gain the full picture of opportunities available for BCCC training in Allied Human Services.

Allied Human Services is tailor-made for students. These students study an Allied Human Services core in which they receive the special instruction and career foundation courses needed for such fields as social work, mental health, counseling, gerontology, social and behavioral sciences, law enforcement, government service, education, and community and social planning.

The BCCC course-of-study is designed to be flexible enough to fit each student’s career goals.

** All BCCC students must meet the College’s Computer Literacy requirements in order to receive a degree or a certificate. All first-time, full- and part-time degree and certificate seeking students are required to complete the PRE 100 course within the first six credits.

Program Learning Outcomes

Conduct assessments of client needs and resources at both the individual and community level, including analysis of social and political barriers that may impede health.
Plan, facilitate , implement interventions and evaluate the outcome of serves for those served.
Engage in practices and techniques that encompass group facilitation, psychosocial assessment, behavioral change and motivating practices working with diverse populations.
Utilize a variety of counseling skills and abilities to function effectively as chemical dependency counselors in a variety of settings
Demonstrate the ability to adhere to professional ethical standards, including confidentiality, sensitivity when working with diverse populations and responsibility for professional growth.
Seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ informant technology to engage in life learn learning.
Develop and promote healthy practices, self-awareness and self-care applying this personally, with clients, colleagues and other professional.
Develop and maintain effective working relationships with clients, colleagues, and supervisors.
Work together with individuals and groups to assess needs, promote strengths, manage problems, set goals, develop or access resources, implement and assess action plans.
Examine the relationship between self, community, and environments, evaluating potential impacts and consequences of actions, and making choices and contributions based on that evaluation and evaluation.
Explain the characteristics and treatment demands of chemically dependent/substance abusing clients.
Identify, analyze and evaluate rhetorical strategies in one’s own and others’ writing in order to communicate effectively.
Apply/utilize written computer skills to maintain appropriate client and agency reports, records, documents.
Employ and interpret clear, concise, and open communications in a professional skills including verbal, nonverbal, and written communications in a professional manner.
Utilize mathematical, symbolic, logical , graphical, and statistical analysis for the interpretation and solution of problems in the natural world and human society.
Gather, assemble, and interpret data through various methods necessary to determine consumers’ strengths and barriers that interfere with their ability to overcome adversity or achieved valued life goals.
Use critical thinking skills to make sound and reasoned decisions regarding common ethical dilemmas encountered in various practice settings.
Apply appropriate diagnostics criteria for substance related disorders, and criteria for other mental health disorders that commonly co-occur with addictive disorders.