Empowerment is an important method for social work practice. The researcher intends to explore the practice and effectiveness of empowerment for single-parent family. The research aims as followed: 1. Understanding，if after-school care enhances children's self-efficacy. 2. Understanding, if after-school care enables single parents to control their own living conditions better. 3. Understand, if after-school care helps all members of single-parent families to face difficulties. The findings of this study: 1. After receiving care services, children of single-parent become more caring and sensible, and the parent-child relationship is more harmonious. Children in the ?After-school care program? learned interpersonal skills, and their self-care ability and academic achievement are improved. 2. Parents can concentrate on work in the workplace, so they realize that they have t abilities to love their children. The family life and the physical and mental conditions of the whole family have been improved, their expectations for a better future is raising. 3. When the family members have confidence to complete the tasks at hand, they are able to face the challenges of life and also able to control over their own future. Parents will have more confidence and ability to achieve the goal of raising their children.
