Family Woodstock Inc.

Natasha Teets

Family Woodstock Inc.

BSHS 355

3/5/18

In this paper I will be preparing an interview with our company. Below I will have listed some valuable questions to help you better understand what the family of Woodstock inc does. I will also provide a summary of how the organizations began and the reasons why. I will next discuss the values beliefs and attitudes of this company as well as how those beliefs have changed and shifted to fit the needs of the community. Lastly, I will discuss how the changes have affected the way it delivers services and how specialization became a trend in human service deliveries.

Interview question

• What are the factors that led the family to create family Woodstock?
• How has family Woodstock specialized to meet the needs of the community
• How have the organizations beliefs, values, and attitudes developed and changed over the last 40 years?
• How have the changes affected the way it delivers services?
• How has the specialization become a trend across human service delivery?

Family Woodstock was a created to help individuals in need. They setup to help individuals with shelter for homeless, transportation, foodbanks, domestic violence, and teen runaway programs as well as case management. They also had set up hotlines for individuals who needed assistance. The founded this group when they had realized the community was in need.

Factors that led founders to create family Woodstock inc

The founders of Woodstock inc had seen the hardship in their community and wanted to make changes. They had noticed that many individuals go without the proper shelter, food, clothing and transportation every day. There were many people sleeping on park benches, people hitchhiking, camping in parking lots and seeking resources for food and clothing.  Their goal was to help those in need get back on their feet and become self-sufficient. They provided individuals with adolescent, childcare, and domestic violence services, as well securing food and clothing and providing them with case management services.

How has family Woodstock specialized to meet the community’s needs?

Family Woodstock provides nonresidential services to victims of domestic violence. The agency is a leading effort to provide strength based and prevention programs which grow healthier individuals and communities. They offer life skills to individuals provided by a life skills manager. They provide daily living skills, which helps the individuals budget money, laundry and cleaning skills, communication and relationships skills. They also have many prevention programs to offer in the community. Some of the prevention programs are for juveniles to help secure or non-secure detention. Many of these programs are for the youth who have been in trouble. The family Woodstock inc also provides other services such as child care, health and mental health, employment, temporary and permutant shelter, and adult case management.