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This book is in B&W, not color - Print page in Grayscale for Correct view! The EMPLOYMENT working group on empowerment has assembled a number of "indicators" for individual empowerment. These are:  Skills: Literacy and numeracy, marketable skills, having confidence and understanding of one's own strengths.  Actual or real potential: having secure and decent housing, being aware of the impact of good health and how to keep it, access to decision making processes, having choices for career development, being able to make decent plan financially, being able to get a credit, interest in positive change in the host society.  Employment: Having a job, better a job with a secure contract of employment, establishment of own business, becoming an employer in own business. The EMPLOYMENT working group has formulated a number of indicators of success for group empowerment. These are:  Support and motivation: Existence of peer support structures (self-help, voca-tional guidance), emergence of role models within the target group, availability of mentors from within the target group, skilled trainers from within the target group, opportunities to collaborate with other to create common and effective projects.  Relationships with other organisations: Participation in decision making process, provision of training to official agencies.  Campaigning: Development of an account of the group's previous exclusion, of value attached to direct experience of that exclusion, training and skill development for group members in the specific skills needed to engage with decision making processes.  Services: Provision of practical services for target group members, development of credit unions. The EMPLOYMENT working group in empowerment has identified some "indicators" for empowerment within the context of the wider community. These are:  policies respond to representatives of target group;  change in public attitudes - the rights of the target group are acknowledged, there is indignation when there are not supported, target group members are described as having rights, rather than needs;  removal of obstacles to participation, e. g. greater availability of child-care, change in time of public meetings etc.;  increase in numbers of target group being employed in jobs concerned with maintenance of the state, e. g. police, armed forces, civil service;  children of target group members born in the host society do not experience exclusion. Proposed reading Gutiérrez, Lorraine et al. (eds.): Empowerment in Social Work Practice. A Sourcebook, Pacific Grove et al. 1998. Lee, Judith A. B.: The Empowerment Approach to Social Work Practice, New York 1994. Lewis, J.A et al. (eds.): Community counselling. Empowerment strategies for a diverse society, Pacific Grove et. al. 1998. In life, like in business, you never get everything you want; you get what you can negotiate. For [email protected] Property of Bookemon, do NOT distribute 71