NATIONAL SERVICE

TRAINING
PROGRAM
(NSTP 2)
COMMUNITY SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM
 VISION

•To develop social

entrepreneurs serving
communities as value
driven innovation for
progress.
 MISSION
• To protect and enhance the
Filipino youth’s physical, mental,
spiritual, and socio-emotional
well-being, inculcate patriotism,
nationalism, and encourage their
involvement in pibic and civic
affairs.
 GOAL
•To promote and integrate
values education,
transformational leadership,
and sustainable social
mobilization for youth and
family development,
community building, national
renewal and global solidarity.
 Course Description
• The three-unit course designed to train the youth to
contribute to the improvement of the general welfare and
quality of life of the Filipinos. It requires the student to
carry out projects and activities in their assigned
community in coordination with the concerned government
or local agency.
• During the first semester, lectures/participatory
discussions, and team building/ bonding activities are
designed to highlight values and skills, especially that of
teamwork, leadership, communication and risk-taking.
• On the second semester, students are required to carry out
projects and activities in improving health, education,
safety, livelihood, environment, entrepreneurship, moral of
the citizenry, and other social welfare services.
CHAPTER 2
COMMUNITY EXPOSURE/AGENCY VISITS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
> refers to a group of people sharing a common purpose, goal and
objective.
> a group of people who are dependent on one another for the
fulfillment of certain needs (sympathy, friendship, and acceptance from
one’s peers)
Characteristics of Successful Communities
1. Find a set of values or principles that allow people to cooperate.
2. Find ways and means to create and maintain an organization that
development grows over time.
3. Are able to adapt in response to changes in the community.
4. Are able to choose new developments aligned to goals and
resources.
5. Are able to get membership and financial support from wider group
in the community.
 Steps in Community Building
Step 1: Systematic discussion and brainstorming on the common felt needs of the community
through the SWOT Method
> Finding the strength of the member of the community
> Identify the weakness of the member of the community
> Determining the opportunities beneficial to the community
> Eliminating the threats that hinder progress and development

Step 2: Establishing a sound vision, mission, goal and objectives

> Developing a workable and achievable vision and mission
> Establishing the goal and objectives that help and direst and people in the achievement and
realization of the vision and mission
> Establishing linkage and networking

Step 3: Training and Technical Support

> Preparing core groups through training and workshop who will become the prime movers
and the planners of every project and activity
> Creating committees that will facilitate smooth working relationship
> Providing technical support that sets limitation and potent workforce
Step 4: Creating community spirit, cooperation and oneness
>Developing the spirit and commitment and highlighting the
importance of cooperation and community spirit
> Forming the community into team through team building
activities
>Imbibing the spirit of “ownership” in every project and
community endeavor to develop in the members of the
community a spirit of valuing and giving their best in the relation
and achievement of every project

Step 5: Mobilizing the community into a single workplace whose

main thrust is progress and development
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND
COMMUNITY EXPOSURE
• COMMUNITY ORGANIZING is a social development approach that aims to
transform the apathetic, passive, individualistic and voiceless, the underprivileged, less
fortunate and marginalized poor to become dynamic, active, participatory and
politically responsive community
• Conditions to consider in community organization:
1. Recognize and deal with the problem accordingly
2. Provide the community self determination
3. Engage and involve the community in the solution of the problem actively
4. Make at a peace that is deemed comfortable for the community
5. Encourage growth through problem solving
6. Encourage community self integration and understanding
@ GOALS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
1. People’s Empowerment
2. Building Permanent Structures and People’s Organization
3. Improve Quality Life
SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
• Involves planned action and processes to reach, influence and involves
all relevant segments of society across all sectors from the national to
the community level, in order to create an enabling environment and
affect positive behavior and social change.
• Objectives of Social Mobilization
1. Bring governance nearer to the people
2. Participation of people, especially weaker social section in development
process.
3. Responsive, transparent governance accountable to people
4. Through above, achieve goals of poverty alleviation and equity.

• Components or Elements of Social Mobilization

1. Advocacy
2. Information education and communication
3. Community Organizing
4. Capacity Networking
5. Networking and alliance
Main Roles and Function of a Community Organizer
• 1. Catalyst or Agent of Change - initiate debates and actions regarding critical
problems; monitors and nature growth of individuals and group of facilitate long
term structural transformation for the people welfare.
• 2. Facilitator - help enhance individual and group strength and helps minimize
weakness and conflicts; heightens group unity; assists individuals and groups
responds to the common interest.
• 3. Advocate - Helps analyze and articulate critical issues; assist others to understand
and reflects on this issue and evokes and provokes meaningful discussions and
actions.
• 4. Planner - conducts initial analysis of area resources and potentials; assist local
group in planning for their common good, including appropriate strategies and
alternative actions to attain desired goals.
• 5. Researcher - conducts social analysis; engages in participatory research wherein
people become co-investigators, simplifies/enriches appropriate research concepts
and skills in order to make this functional for the poor interest; engages in social
integration to understand social phenomena from people’s viewpoint and
standpoint.
 FOOD of the MIND
OUR PRIME PURPOSE IN LIFE IS TO
HELP OTHERS
BUT IF YOU CAN NOT HELP OTHERS,
AT LEAST,
DO NOT HURT
THEM