Silver Empowerment:

An Introduction to Silver Empowerment

“…Third, combined capacity refers to revealing and connecting the resources of people, groups and organisations, since the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Fourth, collective action means individuals use their combined strength to exert influence on community life and on social decision-making processes (Steenssens & Van Regenmortel, 2007). This community dimension is related to the power to institute social change: benefits, accessibility of resources and provisions, a better quality of care, influencing law and decision-making, among others (Van Regenmortel, 2011).…”

“…The overall aim of empowerment is to provide social inclusion and full citizenship for each individual by supporting people in their searching process to gain mastery over the determinants of their quality of life Van Regenmortel, 2013;Steenssens & Van Regenmortel, 2007). Central to this empowerment framework is gaining mastery over one's own situation and environment by gaining more control and insight into a situation and environment and by participation and influencing (Van Regenmortel, 2011).…”

“…Through applied research based on the empowerment paradigm and its accompanying theoretical framework (see Chapter 1), a number of guiding principles to develop individual empowering policy, practice and research has started to emerge (Steenssens & Van Regenmortel, 2007a;Steenssens et al, 2009). Using these principles as touchstones during the process of development and implementation of an intervention offers feedback about From an empowerment perspective, the maximum breadth and depth of participation is, of course, preferable, but context and the available time and means often pose challenges to find a balance between the desirable and the attainable level of participation.…”

Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium

“…Research on NTU in relation to homelessness in Belgium is also limited. A set of studies briefly stipulated the importance of a(n) (reference) address for the homeless population, when analysing the NTU of social rights in Brussels (Noël, 2017), the barriers to obtain these rights in Brussels (Mondelaers & Blancke, 2014), the NTU of the social integration income (Steenssens, Degavre, Sannen, Demeyer, & Van Regenmortel, 2007), and the NTU of the social assistance of the Public Centres for Social Welfare (PCSWs) (De Boyser et al, 2009).…”