Client-focused treatment and referral must be based on an understanding of the family relationships, cultures, and communities of clients served by nonprofit human service organizations. Human service providers are responsible for understanding the contexts in which their clients operate including community disparities and resources. Human service providers and administrators must be aware of provider scope of practice and organization limitations in delivery of services. Building organizational collaborations and a client focused referral network will close the service delivery gap towards meeting client and community needs. Developing a referral network starts with creating a community resource inventory or mapping resources.

For this Assignment, you will take an inventory of all the groups (associations, organizations, and institutions) that exist in your community, or the community of the human service organization where you work, that you can partner with and/or use as a referral network.

You will start by identifying the community and radius in which you will be cataloguing resources.

Create a list of all of the associations, organizations, agencies, and institutions that you already know about.

Then, you will use other sources to complete this list