STATEMENT 20: Human service professionals are aware of sociopolitical issues that differentially affect clients from diverse backgrounds. Week 1 Assignment Application: Human Services Philosophy Statement and Portfolio Week 2 Assignment Application: Artifact—Case Management Plan Week 3 Assignment Application: Artifact—Professional Statement on Interviewing Week 4 Assignment Application: Artifact—Logic Model Running head: Assignment 1 1 Assignment 1 4 Human Services Philosophy Statement Linda Dotson Walden University Human Services Philosophy Statement Introduction The same way engineers and architects rely heavily on blue prints in order to understand the nature of their work and communicate to other people effectively what they are capable of, is the same way human services professional depend on the philosophy statements to communicate their professionalism in their line of work. One segment of this philosophy statement is the portfolio which tells a lot about a student or any professional for it can be used to quickly assess a person’s expertise, values, experiences and even some social, cultural and ethics of a person. Therefore, a portfolio forms a very crucial part of the philosophy statements which dictates any informs a lot about any professional in the human services sector. Many scholars in the recent? have all agreed that the best way to do a quick assessment on both students and even those who are already in the field of human services is by understanding their educational, professional and ethical values of a person summarized by one’s portfolio (Gray, Dean, Agllias, Howard, & Schubert, 2015). Therefore, when developing a portfolio one should tackle the three key components which are the purpose the portfolio is intended to serve, the definition of what expertise the person may have accrued over their educational period and finally the pragmatics which is very important and the language one uses in delivering their information matters a lot. It promotes the development of skills and knowledge that might be the very key in the implementation of individual compiling the portfolio. Human services in the recent past have been given little recognition globally but the role the sector plays in human is very pivotal. Since so many praises can be given to engineers, lawyers or even doctor but the human service industry will forever remain the backbone of humanity for without it there can never be other fields of study which rely on humanity as they serve the human needs. But ideally of what purpose could science serve if there is humanity to appreciate the beauty of science? It therefore means that human service is very fundamental field in any human race. This field requires support from every relevant stakeholder in order to make its contribution recognizable globally. For instance, the case of flooding and civil war, the major sector which has been in the fore front to restore the sanctity of humanity is the human se.