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Joseph L. Mosca, PhD, Department of Social Work, Youngstown State University, One University Plaza, Youngstown, OH 44555, 330-941-3774, jmosca@ysu.edu

Social workers providing services to impoverished individuals need to consider approaches that emotionally empower clients while addressing the acquisition and maintenance of concrete needs. The strengths perspective provides a basis for assessing client capacities, incorporating them into viable strategies, and cultivating self-confidence that leads to a sense of personal empowerment. This presentation analyzes race related inequities that affect poverty, describes an evaluative process for determining client strengths, and proposes responses that effectively integrate client abilities.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to

• Identify and describe three race-based inequalties that have a direct impact on poverty.
• Apply the social work strengths perpsective in the development of strategic repsonses to structural impoverishment.
• Recognize how proposed strategic responses contribute to an overall sense of empowerment for affected groups.

Keywords: Poverty, Social Work

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

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