Date of Award
Fall 2012
Degree Type
Professional Project
Degree Name
Master of Public Service
Department
College of Professional Studies
First Advisor
Ronald C. Benner
Abstract
Empowerment of clients is a goal of many social service organizations and yet a concept that is hard to define and often complicated to implement. This professional project looks at the importance and practice of empowering parents in a teenage pregnancy prevention program through a case study. A survey of parents supported the idea of empowering practices leading to parents becoming partners with the organization in the education of the community. In a qualitative study, this researcher offers the practice of taking empowerment a step further in asking participants of the program to take part in the decision of what should be next for the program.