ARELLANO UNIVERSITY

Jose Abad Santos Campus, Pasay City

College of Arts and Sciences
Community Development

Name: Revilla, Jonna Mae V. Date: February 23, 2021

Year/Course: BSHM-2A Dr. Marlowe Louis F. Fabunan

Activity 6.2
Purposes of Community Action

It has been known that the three community action modalities are Community
Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship. One must be able to understand these
modalities as these are the ways for community members to fully get themselves
involve into making their community a harmonious and progressive one. When one
understands their role, he/she will definitely engage, unite with members and be a
responsible citizen.
There are a lot of ways to invite people to participate and one of that is to build
rapport with them first. Let them see the whole picture of where the community is
leading them. There is evidence that participation can lead to improvements in
neighborhood and community and stronger interpersonal relationships and social
fabric (Florin et al., 1990).

Service is the main core of a community and it is the people who will be served.
When understood, volunteerism would come into picture and here are some self-
involvement ways to be involved in community engagement listed by Chris Hampton
and Eric Wadud of Community Tool Box.

 Get involved in planning processes like creating goals or defining the problem
 Donate money or help out with a fundraising effort
 Volunteer to staff the office, answer phones, put together mass
mailings, or make phone calls
 Doing research, writing grant proposals, or handling correspondence
 Attend public events like rallies, community hearings, or fundraising events
 Serve on committees that focus on specific problems or activities
 Take leadership roles in a community partnership

Defining Community Members' Roles

A community is expected to have diverse members. Each member is
unique. Everyone could bring anything on the table. Contacts and connections
made in a diverse, multi-sector group lead to new community relationships. And
these relationships can speak new community initiatives that might never have

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otherwise existed. (Community Tool Box)

The basic component parts of a community is called community sectors.

Below is a list of sectors present in a community by Community Tool Box.

Social Institutions (five key sectors):

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 • Schools • Churches
• Media • Government - town or city
• Businesses
Other Common Organizations:

• Clinics • Housing authorities and housing groups

• Day Care Centers • Libraries
• Ethnic clubs or associations • Service associations (the Rotary, etc.)
• Hobby groups • Neighborhood groups
• Parent-Teacher organizations • Religious groups
• Professional Organizations • Social service agencies
• Professional Schools • Veterans groups
• Recreation groups
• Specialized groups

Sectors are important for identification. People with the same interest would
most likely form a group and that group could be a medium for actualizing any
possible potentialities set for community development. This categorization of talent
and interest will pave the way of those people who are unable to see their roles in
their own community. And once roles are established, people will become the
backbone of a harmonious and progressive community. They become obliged to
serve their fellowmen and that desire starts with their intention to be part of a
movement.

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Dynamic Social Development Model

Delos Santos, D. Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship p.96

Community Virtues: Resilient, Vigilant, Progressive, Adaptable, and Accountable

Five-Point Initiative: Engagement, Planning, Implementation, Development,
and Sustainability

The figure above represents an ideal holistic development paradigm. Any

community that has these initiatives and embodied virtues of community members
would definitely succeed.

Community Virtues

1. Resilient Communities

Countless challenges are faced by almost everyone every day. Only resilient
people become successful after facing each challenge. As Filipinos are known to be
resilient people, it is also hoped that our communities should be resilient, as well.

Based in a tropical country, we are experiencing different seasons that could

harm our crops and livestock. Drought, floods, heat waves, earthquakes, forest fires,
and tsunamis are just a few of the challenges from Mother Nature that our
communities face (Delos Santos, D. 2017). Aside from that, challenges can be in the
form of corruption, red tape, crime, terrorism, and human rights abuses (Delos Santos,
D. 2017). It is expected that despite all these, people and communities should rise
from it all and continue to live and exist. As these challenges are already expected, for
they come on an annual basis or as a precedent from other communities, contingency
plans must be crafted.

2. Vigilant Communities

As we take extra careful in securing our door locks at night, communities must
also be vigilant to possible threats. Securing the safety of its members is one of the
main focus of any community. Laws are already in existent to make sure that
everybody will get to enjoy their freedom in its utmost sense. It serves as a deterrent
but will be used when someone tries to break the status quo.
However, upholding dogma of the past might seem a standard, but communities
must also be ready to adapt if there are new trends that are beneficial for the
community's growth. Anything, also, that could be the cause of a community to fall, be
it its economy or the welfare of its people, must be eliminated. Being alert and awake
will always give a head start.

3. Progressive Communities

Change is the only constant in this world. One who is afraid of change can
never go to places. From what we have learned from the previous virtue, safeguarding
our belief system is important but so as keeping with development. Protecting our
culture and history will always be everybody's goal but our world right now is
advancing drastically and if we cannot keep up, we will be left at the bottom.
Progressive communities know when to change and when not to adapt. The
role of community leaders is very critical in this matter. Synergy is important for ideas
to flourish and take root. Ideas that are arbitrary made without the consultation of the
community will be hollow and will not connect to their target beneficiaries. (Delos
Santos, D. 2017). It will always be a risk in advancing to the current trends but not
trying to do so will result in not wanting to grow.

4. Adaptive Communities

Progressive community is more likely the same with Adaptive Community.

However, the former is more into looking for long-term changes. Its target is growth
from what is already present. The latter deals with the present condition. Innovative
and creativity are two of the requirements in order step up with the current trends.
Korean fashion is very trending now in the Philippines. Teenage girls are at the
peak of copying the way how Koreans dress. Even with Korea's skin care products are
always present in the Philippine cosmetics shops. This is one example of trying to
change a bit, to look trendier, to adapt. But an adaptive community is more into the
changes occurring in order to survive whenever our environment demands it. With this
Covid 19 pandemic, if our community won’t adapt to the new normal guidelines, then it
is expected that more people will get infected by the virus.

5. Accountable Communities

Accountable communities have the best people who knows their role in their
community. They have the sense of ownership. They know that they have to take part
in planning, execution, solution and sustaining community goals and programs.
The sense of ownership empowers people and in result, gives people confidence and
will to act. People become committed and be more productive.

Beautiful ideas spring from people who are accountable. They study, research
and dissect information or proposals before putting it on the table, for fear that it will
result in failure if not looked into thoroughly. Accountable people do not just look after
their own advantage but the benefit of all the members of the community.
Five-Point Community Initiatives

The five-point community initiatives are the processes or mechanisms that a

community undergoes in order to develop and realize its goals.

1. Engagement - connecting to the community and its people

2. Planning - converting ideas into blueprints through meetings and discussion
3. Implementation - action and realization of the set plans
4. Development - enhancing process for continuous implementation
5. Sustainability - meeting needs of stakeholders; pursued as a goal

Activity 6.2.1
Instructions: Define the following words based on your understanding. Limit your answers
to 1 - 2 sentences in each number. Write the answers below.

a. Engage
b. Plan
c. Implement
d. Develop
e. Sustain
f. Resilient
g. Accountable
h. Vigilant
i. Adaptable
j. Progress

Answers:

a. Engage – to take part or to become involve in an organization or activities.

b. Plan – sequence of steps with timing and resource information, used to
accomplish an aim to do something.
c. Implement – is an execution of a plan, idea, model, design, specification,
standard, algorithm, or policy.
d. Develop – means to build up, grow, or improve gradually over time.
e. Sustain – to keep in existence; keep up; maintain or prolong.
f. Resilient – is someone or something that bounces back into shape or recovers
quickly.
g. Accountable – is completely responsible for what they do and must be able to
give a satisfactory reason for it.
h. Vigilant – is someone who keeps awake and alert in order to avoid danger or
problems.
 i. Adaptable – able to change or be changed in order to fit or work better in some
situation or for some purpose
j. Progress – is the step towards a state that is refined, strengthened, or otherwise
desired.

Activity 6.2.2

INSTRUCTIONS: Do the activity below.

Present Virtues
Identify what community virtues your barangay/community has. Discuss each virtue in 3 - 5
sentences by giving factual scenarios.

These are community virtues that our barangay has;

Resilient communities because all the challenges and struggle that our barangay
encounter we always remain strong and instantly recover. The biggest challenge that our
community experience is the typhoon rolly that cause us an extensive destruction and
damage. Our barangay prepared all the things that our community needs in terms like this
during and after the typhoon. They help first the people who need their help. Despite of
what the typhoon left us, people and communities decides to continue their living.
Accountable communities because people is responsible for what they must do and
must able to do.

Missing Virtues
Identify what community virtues your barangay does not have. Discuss your solution
for each virtue in 3 - 5 sentences.

Community Virtues that our barangay does not have;

Adaptive communities because most of the people in our community did not adapt
things like the new normal guidelines. Many people go outside and sometimes it feels like
there is no virus or COVID19 because they did not follow the social distancing protocol. I think
the better solution to this is mobilizing people to clarify what is matter the most.

Activity 6.2.3
Make a comic strip about Community Virtues. You can paste/draw pictures in a separate
sheet of paper, take picture of it and then paste on this area. You can use the template below
or any template you want.