Medical expenses

Question 1

What does it mean to live below the poverty level? Determine the income for a family of four living in poverty. Be sure your response identifies income levels for poverty based on current U.S. National averages.

Describe and analyze such a family’s total monetary needs to live one week, including housing expenses, food, childcare, transportation, and all other possible expenses.

Imagine one of the children becomes ill on Wednesday, requiring medical expenses and three days of lost wages for one parent (roughly 100% of the total weekly budget). Explain the consequences for the family, including consequences for the family’s budget and lifestyle. Discuss how they obtain food and cover the various expenses associated with day-to-day living and maintenance of well-being. Suggest one or two human services that might be put in place to serve needs such as those described in the scenario.

Question 2

Select a mental health or crisis intervention human service delivery system within criminal justice, such as a domestic violence program within a police department.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper about your selected system in which you address the following:

• Describe the services provided by your selected mental health or crisis intervention human service delivery system.
• Describe the general characteristics and skills needed to effectively deliver mental health and crisis intervention services.
• How do the characteristics, skills, and actions needed by an agent of the government differ from those skills needed by social workers or practitioners in mental health?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.