NTSP

• NSTP


  National Service Training Program
• Community


  A social unit larger than a small village that shares common values. Can refer to national community, international community, or a group or society helping each other.
• Essential elements of community


  • Group of people
  • Definite locality
  • Community sentiment
  • Likeness
  • Permanency
  • Neutrality
  • A particular name
  • Size
  • Wider ends
  • Regulation of relations
• Community immersion


  An intensive study on campus and field experience on becoming a future leader, community organizer or even a future educator. A strategy of transforming DDU communities and trainees into self maintaining ones as men for others imbued with good citizenship values.
• NSTP core values


  • Makadiyos
  • Makatao
  • Makabayan
  • Makakalikasan
• Community immersion


  • Serves as the practicum-based element of the NSTP where lessons learned and acquired in NSTP 1 are applied
  • Essential to all components of the NSTP 2
  • A strategy in community organizing that is sought to imbibe among the NSTP trainees a better understanding and realization of the different community concerns through exposure on actual life situations specifically in the deprived, depressed and the underprivileged (DDU) communities
• Benefits of community immersion


  • Young people learn & develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized experiences that meet actual community needs
  • Provides structured time for youth to think, talk or write about what they did & saw during the actual service activity
  • Provides young people with opportunities to use newly acquired skills and knowledge in real life situations in their own communities
  • Enhances what is thought in school by extending student learning beyond the classroom and into the community
  • Related to community development and social justice
  • Helps foster a sense of caring for others through direct involvement
  • Supported by regular assessment to provide feedback and guide improvement
• Dimensions of development through community immersion


  • Safety
  • Sports and Recreation
  • Environment
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Morals of citizenry
  • Health
  • Education
• Community immersion contributes to the upliftment of life of the people in the service areas.
• Forms of integration in community immersion


  • Home visits
  • Living with selected families preferably with key informants
  • Informal discussions with individuals or groups
  • Sharing in household and community activities (cooking with the community host, clean up drive)
  • Attendance in social gatherings (fiestas, weddings)
  • Assistance in production work (selling, farming)
• Volunteerism


  An act of carrying out tasks or providing services for individuals or community organizations without financial recompense, intended to promote good or improve human quality of life. Provides skill development, socialization and a feeling of self-worth and respect instead of money.
• Types of volunteerism


  • Skill-based
  • Environmental
  • Emergency
  • Community
• Value of volunteering


  • Connect with your community
  • Conserve funds for charities, non-profits and faith-based and other community organizations by contributing your time
  • Share your skills and gain new ones
  • Develop self-esteem and self-confidence
  • Meet new people from all walks of life
• Community building

• Basic types of community organizing


  • Grassroots organizing
  • Coalition building
  • Institution based/ broad based/congregation based/ faith-based
• Community service


  Promotes the safety and well being of children and young people and works to build stronger families and communities. Can be unpaid or voluntary, and part of alternative sentencing approaches or required by educational institutions.
• Types of community


  • Geographic communities (local neighborhood, suburb, village, town or city, region, nation or planet)
  • Communities of culture (local clique, subculture, ethnic group, religious, multicultural or pluralistic civilization or the global community cultures)
  • Community organizations (informal family or kinship networks to more formal incorporated associations, political decision making structures, economic enterprises or professional associations at a small, national or international scale)
• Components of community immersion


  • Pre-Immersion (application and selection, attending meetings, get to know one another, learn more about the community)
  • Immersion (accompanied by an Immersion Facilitator and NSTP Faculty, logistics engage in the local community and issues, connect with other immersion participants)
  • Post Immersion (starting point, commit to meeting at least 10 meetings in the community)