What identified challenges are essential for human service providers to understand when working with Arab American Clients? What are some effective strategies to use when working with these populations and what are some available services to provide resources? For example, if poverty affects a large portion of people with Arab Americans what resources can a human services agency provide?

The human and social service providers and agencies have just recently learned how to function and adapt in a culturally diverse environment. They often face numerous challenges when working with Arab American clients that mainly reflect the cultural, ethnical, and religious diversity, such as language barriers, cultural assumptions and stereotypes, and legal and bureaucratic barriers. There are no specific strategies and rules that the human and social service providers can follow, however, according to various researches and analyses, there are several points that need to be considered, so that the service providers can satisfy the cultural needs of their Arab American clients.
It is of utmost importance for social and human service providers to take a culturally specific and sensitive approach when working with their Arab Americans clients, and adapt their work to their values. Social workers should particularly pay attention to the various traditions, beliefs, moral systems, and cultural world views and opinions of the Arab American clients, and have an open-minded and non-judgmental attitude. They should be aware of the cultural differences, and understand that different cultures address problems and issues in different ways.
Essentially, human and social service providers should totally eliminate racism, discrimination, and social exclusion, in order to promote better cultural understanding and practice methods and strategies which are culturally sensitive for work with Arab American clients. For instance, they should take into account gender relations, the family and community values, and the meaning of faith and religion.
One such method is localization, in which human and social service providers develop a unique knowledge base for different cultures. For instance, Arab Americans have faced a lot of racism, discrimination and oppression in many different areas of life, after the tragic events that took place on 9/11. They were called names, racist remarks and derogatory terms, and employers and educators were skeptical when deciding to employ and/or cooperate with Arab Americans.
Using the method of localization, human and social service providers should document these happenings, and conduct various studies and analyses, which they can then use to promote better living conditions for the Arab Americans, and equal opportunities in the educational, socio-economic and political world. Furthermore, they can use the findings to better understand other cultures and ethnicities in the US as well, and focus on providing social and culturally sensitive environments for all minority groups that live and work in America.
You can find other methods and ways in which the human and social service providers “secure the rights for ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous people around the world”, and provide the proper care and resources for those living in poverty here.