Why Choose the Human Services Program?
Human Services is an ever-expanding interdisciplinary field, which focuses on helping others gain the skills to help themselves. One of the hallmarks of this field is the flexibility that it brings in terms of transferable skills and job fluidity. Workers are often encouraged to spend several years at one site, move to another job, and so on. With advanced education coupled with work experience, advancement is readily achievable.
Our Human Services program blends service learning with academic coursework and internships to provide a well-rounded approach to the field, tiered in such a way to build student confidence, competence and skills with increasing community responsibilities.
Some of these internships present students with the opportunity to work with a variety of demographics, including the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled, seniors, persons living with HIV/AIDS, homeless, incarcerated adults, at-risk youth, pregnant and parenting teens, foster families, persons with substance abuse issues, and numerous other specialty areas. Many students are hired or referred for employment right from their internship placements.
If you have a passion for helping people, critical thinking skills and a desire to step into possibly difficult situations to promote long-term positive growth, this program and career path might be a perfect fit for you.
Students will participate in both classroom instruction and a community-based internship experience with a local human services provider to gain the skills and experience necessary to prepare students for a variety of entry- and mid-level positions within the field of human services.
How Long It Takes:
Human Services AAT & AAS-T Degree: 6-8 quarters
Chemical Dependency Option Certificate: 3 quarters
All program lengths are estimates and are not guarantees.
Potential Careers
Case Workers/Case Aides
Case Workers/ Case Aides Career & Wage Details
This is not a guarantee of employment or a certain wage. Full career data available at careeronestop.org.
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Meet Your Instructors
Bryant Watts
Bldg 2, Rm 112
253-589-5610
bryant.watts@cptc.edu
Robert Welch
Bldg 2, Rm 120
253-589-5610
robert.welch@cptc.edu
Duke White
Human Services Program Information Sessions usually occur at 3 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month.
To learn more about information sessions, visit cptc.edu/info-sessions.
Visit the Academic Calendar at cptc.edu/academic-calendar to see when the next information session is scheduled.
STORIES ABOUT THE HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAM
For Kellie Kirkpatrick-Jacobs, Clover Park Technical College offered an opportunity to pursue a passion for helping people and turn it into career. Her impact as a behavior therapist in the community has prompted recognition, as she was selected as a recipient of CPTC’s 2019 Alumni of Distinction Award.
Clover Park Technical College alum Heather Morgan was recognized as the college’s Transforming Lives Award honoree at the Washington State Association of College Trustees’ annual Transforming Lives Awards Dinner on Monday, Jan. 21. Morgan graduated in December with a degree in Human Services and a 3.9 grade point average.
Barbara Van Hise has found her calling, and it’s in human services. She will graduate from Clover Park Technical College in June and look to live out that calling in a training center. While today she is secure and stable in her calling, foundation and future, her journey to reaching this point was anything but secure and stable.