Experience

DHBW Villingen-Schwenningen

• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Professorin

  • Oct 2013 - Present

  Professorin für Sozialarbeitswissenschaft und Methodenlehre. Die Spezialgebiete von Prof. Dr. Blank in Lehre und Forschung sind die Grundlagenkonzepte Ressourcenförderung und Empowerment sowie Teilhabe bzw. Partizipation und Beteiligungsprozesse. Diese lehrt sie handlungstheoretisch fundiert für die Module Grundlagen und Theorien Sozialer Arbeit, Soziale Einzelhilfe und Sozialraum-, / Gemeinwesenarbeit. In langjähriger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsarbeit hat sie Programme und Instrumente zur Potentialentfaltung von Einzelnen, Gruppen und Gemeinwesen entwickelt, die sie methodologisch begründet an ihre Studierenden weitergibt. Show less



Empowerment Consult

• Germany

• Education Scientist, Lecturer, Consultant and Coach

  • 1999 - Present

  Empowerment Consulting was established in 1999 by Dr. Beate Blank. She is also the founder of several empowerment pilot projects in South and Eastern Germany. Due to this respect her work is unique in terms of definition, creation and design of "empowerment tools" such as Die Schatzsuche® (a quest for treasures) with an outstanding impact for every person, group and community whom were useing this powerful visual, oral or software based tools. Field research and a participatory theory-practice approach are analysing the amasing direct and long-term effect on individual and societal empowerment processes created through her tools in the hands of the users. Her doctoral dissertation explores "The Interdependency of Resource promotion and Empowerment" for the very first time. The outcome is an evaluated and autonomous focus on internal and external resources as a base of empowerment processes. In strengthening of self-determination, self-certification of life, self-assertion of human dignity und uniqueness the new awareness of once own resources will take effect for participation and opportunities for self-realization individually and socially. The book is also useful for practicioners in social work and health promotion. It contains the curriculum Die Schatzsuche® and concepts how it is fitting in social and organizational systems. A field research with immigrants and empowerment stories are a visible and vivid document. The book, released in 2012, is available in German language, please see following link: http://www.budrich-verlag.de/pages/details.php?ID=719 Show less



ArbeiterInnen-Selbsthilfe e.V.

• Stuttgart

• Board of Directors, Executive Director

  • 1977 - 1999

  Dr. Beate Blank is the founder of the first shelter for homeless women and their children in the former Federal Republic of Germany in 1980. In an empty factory facility a empowerment project did emerge as a participatory housing and working self-organization and self-help-group. The empowerment concept has been unique in its holistic approach and a specific linkage between education, working, health, creativity and talent promotion. In 1999 130 women (43% immigrants) were employed in 12 branches and various trainings. Due to the constant growing the organization has been devided into two parts: a women's social enterprise ZORA gGmbH and a housing project with 40 appartments for homeless women under the roof of the mother organization ArbeiterInnen-Selbsthilfe e.V.. Both organizations are still running. Show less