Introduction to empowerment

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Before you begin viewing the material in this module, we strongly suggest that you take a few moments to reflect on your own personal thoughts and feelings about empowerment and the empowerment process.

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Take a few minutes now to write down some of your own thoughts and feelings about the empowerment process. Select Save when you are finished. If you would like to share your thoughts with others in the CBR community, select Share and save.

1. What feelings do you have when you think about people with disabilities becoming empowered?

    2. What personal experiences have left you feeling empowered? How will this help in your role of encouraging staff to support the empowerment process with people with disabilities?

    3. What helps people learn about empowerment?

    4. What challenges do you and the CBR staff face in supporting the empowerment process with people with disabilities and disabled people's organizations?

    Empowerment should be the beating heart of every CBR effort.

    When disabled people, their family members and others in the community come to believe in themselves and in their ability to make a difference – that is when meaningful and sustainable change takes place.

    Select Continue to see an example of what empowered people can accomplish…

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