Empowerment of family welfare empowerment groups through the pagupita garbage bank in Tampingan, Magelang Regency

Empowerment through Involvement: Iowa's Experience with Welfare Reform

This is a challenging and an important time for low-income families. The United States is mired in a recession while Congress faces the reauthorization of assistance and support programs involving low-income families.To date, policy dis cussions have been fueled by analyses of individual aspects of the changes set forth by PRWORA and other legislation. This article synthesizes research findings...

The Way through Empowerment of Medical Toxicology in Bangladesh

Empowerment through Residence

[ABSTRACT What does it mean to empower people through the housing in which they live, and how is this empowerment to be achieved? These are the questions which are examined in this paper. Typologies of empowerment processes are devised in an attempt to make sense of the conceptual and empirical variety involved. The distinction between ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ empowerment orientations is argu...

Fostering empowerment in online support groups

Online support groups have been used extensively, in numerous areas of distress, for 15 years. Researchers have presented conflicting findings and ideas about their effectiveness in helping people cope with respective problems. Our review of quantitative studies and our qualitative exploration of the nature of the experiences that occur in such groups show that several factors operate to potent...

Rare family days: a family empowerment programme

Having a seriously ill child is intrusive for the entire family. Still, knowledge about how to manage family life for these families is limited, especially when the diagnosis is rare. To offer tools to cope with their situation, Rare Disorders Denmark (RDD) developed Rare Family Days (RFD). RFD is an empowerment programme targeted families with children carrying a rare disease. The programme pu...