These common skills and responsibilities are to
• Advocate for individual clients or the community on identified problems.
• Serve as a broker by connecting individual with resources.
• Create and maintain professional helping relationships.
• Improve problem-solving, coping, and development capacities of all people.
• Be able to engage and communicate with diverse population and groups of all
sizes.
• Have a knowledge and understanding of human relationships.
• Provide services to not only support change in the individual but also in his/her
environment as well.