Human Services
- AAS - Career Program
- Department of Education and Human Services
Some learn by doing – our human services students learn by serving
From your first semester as a human services A.A.S. student at Monroe Community College, you’ll have exciting opportunities to gain field experience through a wide variety of community organizations.
You’ll graduate prepared to begin your career and specialize in any number of human services paraprofessional careers, with a job title such as:
- Home health aide
- Community health worker
- Certified nurse’s assistant
- Residential associate/aide
- Counselor
- Youth worker
- Immigration assistant
- Service coordinator
This fast-growing program is taught at our downtown campus by professors with real-world experience who are dedicated to your success.
Work in the Field to Discover Who You Would Like to Serve
The human services A.A.S. program at MCC prepares students for paraprofessional employment in agencies, schools and centers. It provides a unique combination of college course work and human services field experience valued by employers.
As a graduate of this program, you’ll be ready to assist professionals in all kinds of organizations where people help people. These include:
- Community and social welfare agencies
- Mental health and social service agencies
- Community organizations
- Habilitation and rehabilitation agencies
- Day care centers and nursery schools
- Elementary and secondary schools
- Geriatric service centers
You may start your career at one of these employers:
- ARC of Monroe
- East House
- Easter Seals
- Community Place of Greater Rochester
- Fairport Baptist Home
- Heritage Christian Services
- Lifetime AssistanceMonroe County Department of Human Services
- Rochester General or Strong Memorial Hospital
- Greater Rochester YMCA
The human services A.A.S. program is flexible – you may choose courses that are most appropriate to your interests and career goals. You may also wish to transfer to a four-year program, or study further at MCC, in our addictions counseling or direct disabilities support services certificate program.
To find out more about the human services A.A.S. from Monroe Community College, contact the admissions office at admissions@muurausahvenlampi.com or (585) 292-2200.
Human Services
A.A.S. Degree - Career Program
Department:Education and Human Services
School(s): Community Engagement & Development
MCC Program Code: HU01
Description
This program prepares students for employment in agencies, schools and centers that value paraprofessionals who bring to the job a combination of college course work and human services field experience.
Human Services graduates assist professionals in all kinds of positions where people help people. These include community and social welfare agencies, mental health and social service agencies, community organizations, habilitation and rehabilitation agencies, day care centers and nursery schools, elementary and secondary schools, and geriatric services. The Human Services A.A.S. - General Career Track is flexible so that the students may choose the courses that are most appropriate to their interests and career goals. The Human Services A.A.S. - Disability Studies Career Track, with a focus on disability studies, will prepare students to specifically support individuals with a wide variety of disabilities and related needs in the above settings.
Students must be qualified (by Accuplacer) to take ENG 101 in order to register for HUM 101 and HUM 111. There is an extended option for students taking Transitional Studies courses in reading/writing.
A minimum grade of C- or higher is required in all HUM courses to graduate from the program.
(Housed in the Human Services Department)
Program Learning Outcomes
1) Identify generic helping skills utilized in the Human Services field.
2) Demonstrate as appropriate the helping skills utilized in the Human Services field.
3) Assess when the various applications of the Human Services helping skills are used effectively in an agency setting.
4) Apply good judgment and professionalism as supported in the “Ethical Standards of Human Services Professionals” in areas similar to but not necessarily: basic client rights to privacy effective treatment or ethical issues.
5) Document behaviors accurately in cogently written statements.
6) Develop an action-oriented Human Services assessment.
7) Conduct a thorough study of a community agency (including mission statement agency history organizational structure and funding).
8) Define the various roles of a Human Services worker in providing services to clients in community agencies.
