Human service organizations in South Charleston are business concerns that address the human condition rather than producing a product. Such organizations provide programs of service to address the needs of individuals, groups, and communities through the planning, provision, and evaluation of a wide range of services to prevent personal, interpersonal, community, and social problems. Human service organizations adopt their purpose from societal needs and priorities at any point of time.

Some human service organizations in South Charleston focus on a specific set of services, like- mental health or child and family services, education, legal issues, health care services etc; while, some of those provide a number of services. Human service organizations operate under different auspices and address different types of problems, provide different services oriented to different treatment goals, serve different client populations and employ different modalities. However, these organizations share the common orientation to the prevention, amelioration, or resolution of physical health, mental health, social, or environmental problems that affect human beings.

Three Cheers for the Home Team (Better Luck Next Time)!

By:  Lee Ann Rush I live on Long Island.  Many people who aren’t familiar with this part of the country think that Long Island (no, we don’t pronounce it “Lawn Guyland” where I come from!) is nothing more than a paved-over extension of New York City, with traffic-jammed highways, too many shopping malls, and an uber-wealthy enclave of movie stars and..