For this Assignment, you will need your Unit 3 Assignment (if for some reason you did not submit it for a grade, contact your professor) notes from HN205 and information from this unit’s discussion and seminar questions. Apply the coordination of service plan that you created in Unit 3 to the following scenario. Explain how you will use the plan to assist the client and her family to alleviate their crisis and receive appropriate services. The suggested format for the Assignment is provided below the scenario.

Use this scenario to complete this week’s Assignment.

You have been working with Teresa and her six children for the past few months. In this time, you have watched the family thrive while living in public housing while Teresa worked part-time in a local day care center. Recently, she lost her job and was evicted from public housing because her uncle moved in with them illegally. Currently, she and her six children live with her new boyfriend in his house. You know that you have to help her find other housing because there are too many people to live legally in the house (there are only two bedrooms in the house).

You call her at the house to give her some referrals for housing, but when she answers the phone, you hear yelling followed by a click. You decide to call back to leave a message; no one picks up, and you leave a brief message for her to call you back. To be safe, you do not say anything more than your name, knowing that she knows how to reach you. However, you are disturbed by what you heard.

Two days later, Teresa appears in your office with a black eye, broken nose, and bandaged hand. She tells you that she fell and will be fine soon. She apologizes for not calling you back and tells you to not worry about her or the children because they would continue to live with her boyfriend. He is paying the bills now and has promised to buy all of the children new school clothes; they have never had new school clothes before. You are shocked by her appearance and ask her again about the bruises. She tells you that she may have fallen accidentally when her boyfriend pushed her, but that it was her fault because she knew better than to anger him.

Assignment Format

Using the guidelines that you developed for making and evaluating referrals:

• Identify Teresa’s main problem in this scenario.
• Identify the barriers that will keep her from resolving the main problem.
• Create an intervention plan that addresses her three most immediate needs and that provides a timeline for service implementation (set goals for meeting the needs), then describe how you would evaluate the effectiveness of your interventions.

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According to the scenario, Teresa, a mother of six children, has currently lost her job and her home. She and her children have moved in to her boyfriend’s house which seems to be her only option because she seems to be facing assaults from her boyfriend without getting any legal help. Therefore, Teresa’s main problem is lack proper housing. Her lack of employment is probably the reason why she and her children ended up in her new boyfriend’s house, who she claims is supporting her family financially. She lost her public housing due to illegally hosting their uncle and according to housing laws she is also likely to be evicted in the current house because they are too many people living in the small house. Therefore, Teresa needs immediate help to find proper housing for her family and a job to support her finances.

According to guidelines for identifying barriers to services, clients’ eligibility during question scheduling, difficulties in accessing certain services, and connections between the services agents and the client are among the barriers that will directly or indirectly affect Teresa. Teresa is in denial that she needs immediate help to get proper housing when she says that she and her children are fine living in her boyfriend’s house. With the broken nose and bandaged hand, it is clear that the boyfriend is assaulting her which is not safe for her family. Lack of transparency or willingness to get help by the client is a barrier that may keep her from resolving her problem.