PROCESS OF COMMUNITY IMMERSION
NSTP 2 - LESSON 3
At the end of this unit, the student should
be able to:
Verbalize the process of immersion as a
guide for rendering service to the
communities;
LEARNING
Design a community immersion plan of
OBJECTIVES implementation following the process; and
Internalize the importance of carrying out
the steps of community immersion in
series.
Pre-Immersion
Preparation
Selection of Community Immersion
Entering the Community
Community Mapping
PROCESS OF Entry to the community
COMMUNITY Community Integration
IMMERSION Direct and personal contact
Community Needs Assessment
Program/Project Implementation
Termination of Program/Project
PHASE I: PRE-IMMERSION
Trainees will have to prepare themselves
Trainees must have waivers from their parents or guardians
The school also needs to organize its own manpower, resources, and other technical
needs.
CRITERIA IN SELECTION OF AN AREA FOR
IMMERSION
1. Select our areas.
2. Local partners must be willing to work and support community project.
3. Consider needs and resources within the capability of students and
community partners.
4. Places that are not saturated by other agencies.
5. Stable peace and order situation.
6. Accessibility.
PHASE II: ENTERING THE COMMUNITY
Community mapping of the target area.
Anchored on Manalili’s concepts, those planning to conduct
community immersion can enter the community thru:
Ostentatious entry.
Banking on the people’s weakness.
Academic style of entry.
People-centered approach.
PHASE III: COMMUNITY INTEGRATION
Trainees come into direct contact and become involved with the
community people
Immersion phase gets more personal
Integration maybe done through:
a. Border style
b. Elitist style
c. People-centered method of living with the people
PHASE IV: COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT
It reflects the sentiments, needs, aspirations, and recommendations
of the community people. When it is done properly, it reflects also
the trainees’ feeling of oneness with the community.
How is community needs assessment defined?
It is the process wherein the problems, issues, and concerns of the
community are identified through the use of several tools for
assessment.
Importance of Needs Assessment
1. Gather information about citizens’ attitudes and options in order of
importance.
2. Determine how citizens rank issues, problems, and opportunities in order
of importance or urgency.
3. Give citizens a voice in determining policies, goals, and priorities.
4. Evaluate current programs and policies.
5. Provide speculations about what people are thinking.
6. Provide speculations about what people really want.
Information to be included
in Assessing Community Needs
Historical development
Geographical and transportation information
Political and legal functions
Demographic data
Economic data
Methods in Collecting Data
for Community Needs Assessment
Focused group discussion with key informants
Community Forum/assembly
Public records
Survey
Steps in Conducting Needs Assessment
1. Establish a working committee to solicit citizen and
community involvement and develop a plan of action.
2. List important aspects that are needed to look upon.
3. Identify the population to be surveyed.
4. Determine the information that is needed.
5. Select a random sample of person to survey.
Steps in Conducting Needs Assessment
6. Develop and pretest a questionnaire.
7. Collect and collate the information.
8. Analyze the data.
9. Go back to the community for validation of information.
10. Finalize the document.
Community Assistance in Assessing Needs
Help identify community groups and citizens to be involved in the
working committee.
Facilitate group discussion to identify important issues and set
priorities.
Help select the sample to be surveyed and design a system to
identify respondents.
Provide test questions from which the working committees choose
questions that address the issues and concerns.
Community Assistance in Assessing Needs
Help design a process to distribute and collect survey
questionnaires, code, enter and analyze the resulting data.
Provide summary reports of data.
Suggest programs to report the results and strategies to solicit
community involvement.
Work with citizens to identify courses of action based on the
information
PHASE V:
PROGRAM/PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
It deals with the actual execution of the plans.
It includes making the:
final arrangement with the target clients/community partners
officials involved in the activities
right schedule of each event, day to day activities and;
needs of the clients
manpower each day of the program, monitoring and evaluation plan and; other
requirements
To Ensure the Success
of the NSTP Community Service Projects
Program must be responsive to the needs of the clients;
Contribute to the upliftment of the living conditions of the clients;
Maximize the resources available in the community;
Tap the potentials of the clients and give due recognition;
Objectives must be SMART with the tangible results that touch the
lives of the clients;
To Ensure the Success
of the NSTP Community Service Projects
Project must be done systematically to ensure significant contributions
from pre-planning, planning stage, implementation, and evaluation;
Complete documentation must be observed as basis for reporting and for
future studies;
Projects must be within the capacity and concern of the trainees that will
allow them to gain the knowledge, skills and encourage reflective action;
and
Develop shared commitment among the trainees.
PHASE VI: TERMINATION OF PROJECTS
NSTP trainees are expected to complete their projects in the
community in the span of 50-90 hours prescribed to the
CHED-endorsed Program of Instruction.
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