Community Immersion

Inculcates civic consciousness and defense preparedness in the youth. Offers students an avenue to identify and understand issues that will help Solve problems in the communities…

Community Immersion

FORMS COMMUNITY IMMERSION

Home Visits
Living With Selected Families
Informal Discussions with Individuals or groups Sharing in household and community activities Attendance in social gatherings
Assistance in production work

Is every connection one has with the world around that sustain the way of life.

Community

Greater and larger degree of people

Community work

Smaller degree of people

Community-based work

A group of young leaders selling homemade buko pie. The fund will be donated to the street children.

Community-based work

The community of barangay 156 provide food donation to the victims of Mt. Taal. COMMUNITY WOR

Community Work

Is involved in the efficient delivery of improving programs or services that allow communities to access outside experts in areas that may be highly technical or that may demand credentials for further funding or implementation.

Technical Assistance Approach

Encourages people within the community to work together, empowering communal independence. Individuals who are vulnerable, voiceless, and powerless can develop enormous strength in self-help groups. This approach may be demonstrated through activities that involve a visioning and goal setting process.

Self-help Approach

Deals with confronting the forces that are blocking efforts to solve problems by building human capacity to address local issues and concerns and altering the structure of the community in terms of engagement. The practices under this approach value confrontations in a sense that conflicts provide impetus for movement and encourages critical thinking and the individual thought.

Con Approach

More concerned with the foundation of the community members in terms of constitutions. It may involve the process of constructing infrastructures that meet human needs or expectations.

Structural or brick-and mortar approach

Focuses on the behavioral, cultural, ethnical, and social affairs as a leading target for communal development in or outside the community.

Social Justice and Human Rights Approach

Target crises as major focal point for development, radical alternatives to address the natural make-up of the earth.

Ecological or Environmental Approach

Any combination of approach that can ensure the success of the community.

Multi-Method

Efforts that develop from within the community and are led by the community

first model

Efforts that are Instigated and run by professionals from outside the community

second model

Simply defined as people with common interests living together in the same place.

Community

derived from French word comunite and Latin term communitas

Community

refers to an organization of people who are able to undertake projects based on its members’ experience, resiliency, motivation and willingness to learn. (Manalili, 2009)

Community

Community understood in two ways. (Archaeology)

1. Place where people reside in;
2. Group of individuals who interact with each other.

is an organization of people who strategize, conceptualize, implement and evaluate a program. (Bunagan, 2009)

Active Community

SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF A COMMUNITY

• Family is the smallest unit of the society.
• Community is composed of different families who live in the same place and share the same interests.

ACTIVITIES OF A FAMILY TO THE COMMUNITY

•Share common resources
•Working for a common good
•Build harmonious relationships

AESTHETIC AND MORAL VALUES OF A COMMUNITY

Solidarity
Commitment
Mutuality
Trust

DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMMUNITY

1. Communities of place
2. Communities of memory
3. Communities of face-to-face personal interaction

is a process in which the problems, issues and concerns of the community are identified by using several tools.

Community Needs Assessment

Formulation of the program

needs assessment
social analysis
Community diagnosis

STEPS IN DETERMINING THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY

1. Gather information about the community’s attitudes and opinions in order of importance.
2. Determine how citizens rank local issues, problems and opportunities STEPS IN DETERMINING THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY
3. Give the citizens voice in determining policies, goals and principles.
4. Evaluate current programs and policies
5. Speculate on what the people are thinking and what they may really want.

STEPS IN CONDUCTING A COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT

1. Establish a working committee to solicit community involvement and develop plan of action
2. List important aspects or areas that need to be analyzed STEPS IN CONDUCTING A COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT
3. Identify the population to be surveyed
4. Determine the information needed
5. Select a random sample of people to survey ASSESSMENT
6. Develop and pre-test a questionnaire
7. Collate the information gathered
8. Analyze the data
9. Go back to the community to validate the results or findings
10. Finalize the report

DATA GATHERING METHODS FOR COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT

1. Focus group discussion (FGD) by key informants

2. Community forum/assembly

3. Public records

4. Survey

is conducted to identify community needs which are necessary for subsequent actions.

Needs assessment survey

Contains a set of questions to be answered by people in the community.

Needs assessment survey

DATA GATHERED IN A NEEDS ASSESSEMENT SURVEY

1. Historical data
2. Geographical data
3. Political and legal data
4. Demographic data
5. Economic data (social, cultural, educational, moral and cultural superstructure)

ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY IN A NEEDS ASSESSMENT

1. Help identify interest group and citizen
2. Facilitate a group discussion
3. Select the sample to be surveyed and design a system to identify respondents
4. Provide a pool of questions from which the working committees address issues and concerns
5. Design a way of distributing and collecting survey questionnaires and encoding and analyzing the resulting data.
6. Provide summary reports of data
7. Suggest programs whereby results can be reported and strategies on community involvement solicited.
8. Work with citizen to come up with well-informed course of action

STP-CWTS 2 students are required to complete ______ hours of community service in their institution' s community partners as stipulated by RA 9163. 

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are conducted by a person or a group of people for the benefit of others. It is done to address the needs of community members and the functionality of the whole community. One is not paid to take part in community services. Volunteers arc expected to willingly dedicate their efforts to community services from which they can be repaid through small gifts or tokens or simply by the sense of fulfilment in taking part in these activities. 

Community service

Green is a color that symbolizes a clean and healthy environment. A cleanliness drive or campaign is a barangay-wide program that aims to thoroughly make streets and alleys spic-and-span by having students coordinate with community members to sweep up trash, remove all forms of vandalism, and beautify public infrastructure in the community.

Environment

Providing entrepreneurship opportunities to the members of ·the community gives them a chance to find more ways of earning money. The group will conduct a recycling seminar for the parents in the community. 

Livelihood and Entrepreneurship