Empowerment evaluation as a social work strategy.
This article explores the application of empowerment strategies to program evaluation within a community health setting and presents a case study to examine the policy, direct practice, and research issues associated with the plan to evaluate a community-based HIV-prevention program. Empowerment evaluation strategies were used to develop an innovative street outreach intervention that can be measured and evaluated, to transfer evaluation knowledge from the researcher-expert to the program stakeholders, and to help overcome evaluation implementation obstacles. The article addresses the benefits and risks inherent in an empowerment approach to the evaluative research process.
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College of Social Work, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506-0027, USA. mcsecr@pop.uky.edu
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D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006285:Health Planning; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D012947:Social Work