COMMUNITY IMMERSION
Community immersion: Method under which young people:
- Learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized
experiences that meet actual community needs that are coordinated with the
school and community
- Integrated with specific learning objectives and structured time for youth to
think, talk, or write about what they did and saw during the service.
- Provides youth with opportunities to use newly acquired skills and knowledge
in real-time situations in their own communities.
Community immersion: strategy in community organizing that is sought to imbibe
song the NSTP students, a better understanding and realization of the different
community concerns through the exposure on actual life situations specifically in the
deprived, depressed and the underprivileged communities.
PHASES OF COMMUNITY IMMERSION [6]
1. Pre-immersion
2. Entering the community
3. Community needs assessment
4. Community integration
5. Project implementation
6. Termination of projects
-Pre-Immersion-
- Greet and meet key informants
- Establish rapport with key informants
- Set objective and community goals
- Get their expectations
- Forming a mutual and trusting relationship
- Ocular inspection of the site
- Setting time frame and termination dates
Community immersion: Method under which young people:
- Learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized
experiences that meet actual community needs that are coordinated with the
school and community
- Integrated with specific learning objectives and structured time for youth to
think, talk, or write about what they did and saw during the service.
- Provides youth with opportunities to use newly acquired skills and knowledge
in real-time situations in their own communities.
Community immersion: strategy in community organizing that is sought to imbibe
song the NSTP students, a better understanding and realization of the different
community concerns through the exposure on actual life situations specifically in the
deprived, depressed and the underprivileged communities.
PHASES OF COMMUNITY IMMERSION [6]
1. Pre-immersion
2. Entering the community
3. Community needs assessment
4. Community integration
5. Project implementation
6. Termination of projects
-Pre-Immersion-
- Greet and meet key informants
- Establish rapport with key informants
- Set objective and community goals
- Get their expectations
- Forming a mutual and trusting relationship
- Ocular inspection of the site
- Setting time frame and termination dates
