1 This week we are looking at the differences between enabling and empowering. Give an example of a time in your life when someone enabled you. This might just be in completing homework or something not related to what we often think of enabling, like with addictions. How did the enabling affect you? Now tell of a time when someone empowered you. Again, this might be about a relationship or schoolwork. So how will you carry these ideas into work with your clients? Do we ever rightly enable them? Should we always only empower them, and what would this mean in the setting of your internship, or in your work setting?
2 The theme this week is program evaluation. Please explain what that is, in simple terms, so that if your friend asks you, why are you evaluating your program, you could explain it so others would understand.What is an evaluation? How do we do it? Why do we do it? Can anyone give any examples?If you are grant funded, sometimes there is a stipulation to evaluate the program formally, and an evaluation can cost 100 thousand dollars or more on large programs like a teen pregnancy program.