<P> Human services practitioners strive to advance the autonomy of service users through civic engagement, education, health promotion and social change at all levels of society . Practitioners also engage in advocating so human systems remain accessible, integrated, efficient and effective . </P> <P> Human services academic programs can be readily found in colleges and universities, which award degrees at the associate, baccalaureate, and graduate levels . Human services programs exist in countries all around the world . </P> <P> Human services has its roots in charitable activities of religious and civic organizations that date back to the Colonial period . However, the academic discipline of human services did not start until the 1960s . At that time, a group of college academics started the new human services movement and began to promote the adoption of a new ideology about human service delivery and professionalism among traditional helping disciplines . The movement's major goal was to make service delivery more efficient, effective, and humane . The other goals dealt with the reeducation of traditional helping professionals (interprofessional education), to have a greater appreciation of the individual as a whole person (humanistic psychology) and to be accountable to the communities they serve (postmodernism). Furthermore, professionals would learn to take responsibility at all levels of government, use systems approaches to consider human problems, and be involved in progressive social change . </P> <P> Traditional academic programs such as education, nursing, social work, law and medicine were resistant to the new human services movement's ideology because it appeared to challenge their professional status . Changing the traditional concept of professionalism involved rethinking consumer control and the distribution of power . The new movement also called on human service professionals to work for social change . It was proposed that the reduction of the monopolistic control of professionals could result in democratization of knowledge and would lead to professionals advocating on behalf of clients and communities against professional establishments . The movement also hoped that human service delivery systems would become integrated, comprehensive, and more accessible, which would make them more humane for service users . Ultimately, the resistance from traditional helping professions served as the impetus for a group of educators in higher education to start the new academic discipline of human services . </P>

List the three goals pursued by human service organizations