45 Years Within Human Services – Reflections and Where We Go From Here

• By: Frank L. Bird MEd, BCBA, LABA Melmark
• October 7th, 2022
• advocacy, compassionate care, deinstitutionalization, evidence-based practices, Fall 2022 Issue, fidelity, human services, leadership, mentoring, perseverance, service delivery, standards of excellence, support staff
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I have had the privilege of working within the field of autism over the past 45 years. For 24 of those years, I have been honored to work at Melmark, a multi-state human service provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers,...

Digital Transformation, Virtual Learning, and the Resilient Organization

• By: Jordan Baker Relias
• October 4th, 2021
• COVID-19, digital transformation, Fall 2021 Issue, human services, organizational resilience, technology, training
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With onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, human services organizations across the United States had their worlds turned upside down. For many, the effects of the pandemic only exacerbated the community issues their organizations were founded to fight. The increased risk of infection, the effects...

Lessons Learned from Senior Executives of Human Service Agencies Over the Past 20 Months

• By: Arthur Y. Webb New York Integrated Network for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (NYIN)
• September 30th, 2021
• COVID-19, executives, Fall 2021 Issue, human services, intellectual and developmental disabilities
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* Italicized quotes from members of NYIN are included, with a contributor listing provided at the end of this article. Who is in charge? Over the last 20 months, chief executives of human service agencies were faced with unprecedented crisis. The twin epidemics of the tragic consequences of...