Empowerment of Broken Home Adolescents in the Hamur Inspiration Community (HIC)

ABSTRACT: Many broken home adolescents have the wrong relationship to fall into promiscuity, abuse drugs, and commit delinquency. Therefore, stereotypes emerge among the community that broken home adolescents have a bleak future. This condition makes them marginalized because of their weak psychological position. Hamur Inspiration Community (HIC), based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, focuses on the selfdevelopment of broken home adolescents. This community carries out many positive activities that can be viewed as empowerment activities. This study aims to determine the empowerment model for broken home adolescents. The research design is a case study with a constructivist paradigm. Data collection was done by observation, interview, and Focus Group Discussion were triangulated to obtain saturation data. Responses were transcribed, coded, and analyzed using Miles and Huberman’s interactive model. Positive Youth Development
consists of competence, self-confidence, character, connection, caring, and contribution as a reference model for empowering broken home adolescents in HIC. The empowerment of broken home adolescents is one way to challenge societal stereotypes. This research implies that broken home adolescents have the opportunity to be empowered so that they can become superior and achievers. It is recommended that further studies would be conducted on testing the effectiveness of several youth empowerment models based on the personal characteristics of broken home adolescents.
KEYWORDS: broken home, adolescent, stereotypes, social movement, empowerment model