Community Health Nursing Related Learning Experience Week 2

Introduction Phases
Community Organization Participatory Action Research 1. Pre-entry phase
(COPAR) 2. Entry phase
3. Organization-building phase
 An important tool for community development and people
4. Sustenance and strengthening phase
empowerment as this helps the students and community
5. Exit phase/ phase out
workers to generate community participation in development
activities.
I. Pre-Entry Phase
Learning Objectives
Initial phase of the organizing process where the community
 Sustained and systematic process of building people’s worker/organizer looks for communities to serve/help
organizations by mobilizing and enhancing the capabilities and Activities:
resources of the people for the resolution of their issues and
concerns toward effecting change in their existing oppressive  Community consultations/ dialogues with barangay
and exploitative condition. (1994 National Rural Conference) officials, health workers and community leaders
 Setting of issues/ considerations related to site selection
Definition
 Development of criteria
 A social development approach that aims to transform the  Preliminary social investigation (PSI)
apathetic, individualistic and voiceless poor into dynamic,  Networking with local government units (LGU’s),
participatory and politically responsive community NGO’s and government agencies
 Develops cooperative and collaborative attitudes and practice  Identifying host families
in the community
Action Taken:
Importance
 Initial meeting together with the local government unit,
 it is an important tool for community development and barangay officials, health care team and community
empowerment leaders
 Prepares people/client to eventually take over the management
of a development program in the future
 Maximize community participation and involvement,
community resources are mobilized for community services II. Entry Phase
It is sometimes called the social preparation phase. It is crucial in
determining which strategies for organizing would suit the chosen
community. The success of the activities depends on how much the
Principles
community organizers have integrated with the community.
 Based on the interest of the poorest sectors of the society
Activities:
 Should lead to a self-reliant community and society
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 Integration It is at this phase where the organized leaders or groups are being
 Actual encounter with the community residents given training (formal, informal, OJT) to develop their style in
 Establishing rapport with the people in managing their own concerns/ programs and implementation of
continuing efforts to imbibe community life identified programs.
 Gather initial survey for base line data Training the groups on what they should do in the organization.
 Deepening social investigation/community study
 Verification and enrichment of data collected Activities:
from initial survey  Development of management systems and procedures,
 Collate result data including delineation of the roles, functions and tasks of
 Present of the collated results officers and members of the CHO
 Participative analysis of data collected  Implement program identified by the people in the
 Core group (CG) formation and selection of community
officers
 Defining the role/ functions/ tasks of the CG Action Taken:
 Coordination/dialogue/consultation with other  Students assisted the community residents with the core
community organizations group to implement identified programs by the
 Community meetings of the community health stakeholders
organization (CHO) IV. Sustenance and strengthening phase
Action Taken: It occur when the community organization has already been
 Integration established and the community members are already actively
o Conducting house to house survey utilizing the participating in community-wide undertakings. At this point, the
Assessment Data Base Tool different committees’ setup in the organization-building phase is
 Deepening social investigation/community study already expected to be functioning by way of planning, implementing
o Presentation of collated data to the community and evaluating their own programs, with the overall guidance from the
community-wide organization.
people
o Students facilitated the people in the community NEVER promise the community anything. Your job is to help, guide,
in terms of problem identification and planning and facilitate the community.
sessions Activities:
o students assisted in coordination with other
organization (GOs, NGOs, LGUs)  Education and training of CHO for monitoring health
III. Organization-building Phase programs.
 Developing of secondary leaders
It entails the formation of more formal structure and the inclusion of
 Linkage and networking
more formal procedure of planning, implementing, and evaluating
 Conduct of mobilization on health and developing
community-wise activities.
concerns
 Implementing of livelihood projects
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Actions Taken:
 Programs and activities conducted during COPAR were
presented to the Barangay Officials, by the students and
identified different stakeholders (GO’s & NGOs) for
the sustenance/ strengthening of the programs
V. Exit Phase/ Phase Out
It is when the health workers leave the community to stand alone. This
phase should be stated during the entry phase so that people will be
ready
The organization build should be ready to sustain the test of the
community itself because the real evaluation will be done by the
residents of the community itself
Activities:
 Leaving the immersion site
 documentation