The purpose of this study is to review the previous studies about empowerment
approach social welfare practice for poor single mothers, analyze its practical cases,
suggest methods and direction to practice empowerment practice of poor single mothers
in the future based one them, and try to contribute to practice and studies based on
evidences that the proven results in practical fields are proven through the study and the
result are accumulated. For this, the characteristics by year of empowerment approach
practice arranged in Sungsan Community Welfare Center of Ewha Woman's University
from 2004 to 2012 according to empowerment levels were grasped by using business
materials including business plans and business evaluation sheets and literature data
including field research reports and the contents of the results were classified. And the
flow of time and procedure was analyzed based on individual, personal, political, and
social levels of empowerment. As the result, the main contents of social welfare practice
for poor single mothers have found to be arranged according to individual, personal,
social, and political steps. And they have found that each step was not segmentally done
but was arranged having organic relations with each other. And it could be found that
there is the result of empowerment according to this. Based on this, the meaning and
assignment of social welfare according to practice of empowerment approach for poor
single mothers were drawn in reference to the concept of empowerment which is recently
and variously used in social welfare practice.