EMPOWER: Enabling Methods Of Planning And Organizing Within Everyone's Reach

EMPOWER is a computerized software program tailored to assist health e ducators teaching community health courses and practitioners in their efforts to plan and implement community health programs. Using a subst antive knowledge base from recognized experts in health promotion plan ning and mammography screening, and the PRECEED-PROCEDE process of pla nning, EMPOWER illustrates how the models and interventions for health promotion or community health programs can be integrated systematical ly. It uses breast cancer prevention and control programming to demons trate the steps. Students often seek the opportunity to work through o ne example for applying the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model. This program allows them to do so interactively.