NSTP 2
Lec 1/ Pre-Mid 2nd Semester
R.A No 9163
● known as National Service Training
Program (NSTP) act of 2001
● aims to motivate train and mobilize youth
in military training, literacy, civic welfare
2 semesters
● The program shall be taken for
NSTP Community Immersion
● approach to link community & students at
local community development process
3 phases:
1. Improving youth’s understanding of their
community & how it works through several
hands on activities
2. Conduct a needs assessment survey of
residents
3. Implementing a project to address ab
issue identified through the needs
assesment
1987 Philippine Constitution
● The state recognizes the rvital role of youth
in nation building
Government
● their prime duty is to serve & protect the
people
● they shall call upon the people to defend
state
Community Immersion
● it is practicum-based element of NSTP
where lessons learned and acquired in
NSTP 1, whether on a semester basis or as
part of the one summer program.
● not only applicable to the CWTS and LTS
components but the ROTC as well.
Community Immersion
● is a strategy in community organizing that
is sought to imbibe among the NSTP
trainees a better understanding &
realization of the different community
concerns
● through exposure on actual life situations
specially in the deprived, depressed, and
underprivileged (DDU) communities.
● it is also a strategy of transforming DDU
communities and trainees into self-
sustaining ones as men for others imbued
with good citizenship values of being:
MAKADIYOS, MAKATAO, MAKABAYAN,
and MAKAKALIKASAN.
Community Immersion
Economic aspect
● suggests financial management while
Social aspect
● focuses on people’s interactions and
relationship building.
spiritual aspects
● associated with religion and our
relationship with the Supreme Being,
1. Education;
2. Health;
3. Safety and disaster management;
4. Sports and Recreation;
5. Environmental Services;
6. Entrepreneurship and Livelihood; and
7. Morals of citizenry and other social
/general welfare concerns.
Community Immersion
● approach of bringing the NSTP
student-trainees to the DDU communities
● to underserved, marginalized sectors,
● where they are may encounter shifts from
being
○ spectators of community action,
nonchalant and passive citizens
○ to responsible and effective
change agents
the principle involve in NSTP community immersion
● present a solid foundation for the
attainment of a common goal,
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Lec 1/ Pre-Mid 2nd Semester
Community
● group of people gathered together in any
geographic area who have common
interests
● collective of people with similar interests
and goals whether living in the same
geographic locality or not.
ELEMENTS OF A COMMUNITY
1. Demographics
2. Culture
3. History
4. Economy
5. Structures
Demographics
● include population distribution and
density, characteristics of population,
History
● events of the past that contributed to the
development of the community.
Culture
● ways, of living of the people.
Economy
● income, level, occupation of people.
Structures
● physical, political, and social structures
IMPORTANCE OF IMMERSION
1. Will enable to understand how the people
feel, think, say, and behave as dictated by
their conditions and situations in life as a
means
2. To make feel and realize that they are
more fortunate than many others and that
3. Students can do something to improve the
lives of the marginalized and underserved.
4. They will be exposed in further and other
realities of life
Community immersion
● strategy in community organizing work
that entails understanding of the different
community concerns through exposure
and engaging in different activities.
● goes beyond acquainting us with
community concerns but make possible
our participation in their (re)solution.
Forms of Integration in Community Immersion:-
1. Home visits
○ Living w/ selected families
preferably w/ key informants-
Informal discussions with individuals
or
2. Sharing in household and community
activities
○ (cooking, with the community host,
clean-up drive)
3. Attendance in social gatherings
○ (fiestas, weddings, etc.)
4. Assistance in production work
○ (selling, farming, etc.)
WHOM DO YOU IMMERSE WITH IN THE
COMMUNITY?
1. Parents,
2. Youth
3. Differently-abled constituents, and
professionals,
4. Members of people’s organizations
5. Formal and informal group,
6. Potential collaborator of your project or
activities
Community immersion
● empowering the people towards
development of the locality.
Community-based service projects must be
● premised on the principle of people
empowerment and not the dole-out’
mentality.
WHAT CONDITIONS MAY QUALIFY ONE TO GO
INTO COMMUNITY IMMERSION?
1. knowing the very process of immersion
○ this endeavor requires skills in
facilitating interventions, planning
and managing community service
projects, among others.
NSTP 2
Lec 1/ Pre-Mid 2nd Semester
54 - 90 hrs
● students enrolled in NSTP 2 are mandated
to undergo communityimmersion for a
period covering of:
WHAT PERSONAL GAIN MAY A STUDENT GET
FROM COMMUNITY IMMERSION?
1. Can comprehend people’s lives to see
real life situations.
2. Gain social acceptance
3. Enhance experiences in conducting asset
mapping
4. Establish rapport and relationship with
different people
5. Develop their conscientization ability.
6. Acquire first –hand expereinces I dealing
with community works
7. Chance to learn life skills that will enrich
and better their persons.
WHAT YOU SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO IN
COMMUNITY IMMERSIONIt
● basic rule that trainees must be
well-versed with the area, skilled to
communicate with community people
and disciplined to keep yourself from
responding indifferently towards diverse
types of personalities.