nstp

• The Process of Community Immersion

  1. Pre-Immersion

  2. Entering the Community

  3. Community Integration

  4. Community Needs Assessment

  5. Program or Project Implementation

  6. Termination of the Project
• Phase 1: Area Selection - Factors to be Considered


  • Groups or communities to be chosen belong to the deprived, depressed and underprivileged
  • Willingness of local groups and community leaders to work with you on community projects
  • Anticipated activities and demands fall within your available resources and ability to meet them
• Phase 2: Entering the Community


  Community Mapping - identify the geographic coverage of the project, point out the resources that may be used by the trainees in the community and relationship of people with these resources
• Ways of Entering the Community

  • Ostentatious Entry
  • Banking on the People's Weakness
  • Academic Style of Entry
  • People-Centered Approach
• Phase 3: Community Integration


  A continuous process wherein the trainees come into direct contact and become involved with the community people
• Ways of Community Integration

  • Border Style- trainees choose to stay and live-in the immersion area for a certain period of time
  • Elitist Style- trainees tend to stay close to key informants and political players during their stay in the community
  • People- Centered Method
• Phase 4: Community Needs Assessment


  A concrete base for the formulation of programs, reflects the sentiments, needs, aspirations and recommendations of the community people, reflects trainees feeling of oneness
• Phase 5: Program/Project Implementation


  Needs of the client will be the dominant consideration throughout the conduct of the project
• Phase 6: Termination of Projects


  Prepare for any eventualities should implementers will terminate the project, Inform about the status of the project
• Social Mobilization


  An approach wherein the community participation is very essential
• Components of Social Mobilization

  • Growth- physical, intellectual, volitional and moral capabilities of the deprived people as persons
  • Empowerment- strengthening of their collective capabilities; bonafide leadership, solidarity and participatory decision making of the self-help groups/ organizations
  • Transformation of social institutions- keeping with the principles of equity and social justice
  • Enhancement of the ecological resource- is what the deprived people depend on for their physical security and sustenance
  • Dynamic cultural innovation- values, beliefs and norms that constitute the blueprint for a developed society and for the behaviour of its members
• Guidelines for NSTP students in community outreach program

  • Appearance
  • Accountability
  • Student Behaviour
  • Bringing companions in the community
  • Transportation
  • Use of cellphones
  • Working with the LGU officials
  • Problems encountered
• Political and Legal Functions


  • Strategies or community-based selection (strategies that community uses for selecting players in the political sphere)
• Demographic Data


  • Age characteristics
  • Size
  • Race
  • Transience of population
• Economic Data


  • Economic base
  • Social organizations
  • Cultural organizations
  • Educational organizations
  • Recreational organizations
  • Values
  • Social patterns
• Historical Development


  Data on how the community became what it is today and provides insights into the kind of resources to collect and weed
• Geographical and Transportation

  • Community patterns
  • Population contributions
• Key Informant Approach


  Using key persons in collecting data through questionnaires or interviews; easiest and least expensive ways
• Public Forum Approach


  Gathers information from the community residents through group discussion in a series of forum
• Nominal Group Approach


  Gather maximized group participation through individuals creative thinking in an open, face to face and non threatening environment from within the group
• Delphi Technique Approach


  Structured using a series of questionnaires thus feedbacks are summarized from the responses
• Survey Approach


  Collection or gathering of data and information through questionnaire or interviews from a community (sampling procedure)