What is NSTP?

“National Service Training Program (NSTP)”

is a program aimed at enhancing civic
consciousness and defense preparedness in
the youth by developing the ethics of service
and patriotism while undergoing training in
any of the three (3) program components.
Why is NSTP important?
The purpose of this program is to recognize
the Youth’s vital role in nation-building,
promote consciousness among youth and
develop their physical, moral, spiritual,
intellectual and social well-being.
COMMUNITY IMMERSION
AS REQUISITE OF NSTP
 Community immersion is one
important requirement of the National Service
Training Program (NSTP) prescribed to
students, male and female alike, in private
and public higher education institutions and
technical-vocational schools (RA 9163, Sec.
7).
In essence, it is the 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, are applied in
the enhancement of the trainees’
capabilities, civic consciousness
and defense preparedness in the
service of the nation.
 This practicum requirement essential to NSTP 2 is not
only applicable to the Civic Welfare Training Service
(CWTS) and the Literacy Training Service (LTS)
components but the Reserve Officers Training Course
(ROTC), as well.
As a concept, community immersion is a strategy in community organizing
that is sought to imbibe among the NSTP trainees a better understanding
and realization of the different community concerns through exposure on
actual life situations specifically in deprived, depressed and under
privileged (DDU) communities. These experiences will allow them to
facilitate them to undergo certain changes that will make them civic-
conscious and socially responsible citizen.
 Corollary, community immersion, as a process, is aimed at developing
among student-trainees, through the training program, their appreciation of
rendering community works which is quintessential in affording for them the
opportunity to experience and put themselves in real-life situations in the
communities they serve.
 For these reasons, each trainee must have a genuine
feel of living with the people in order that they may
understand and relate with community concerns as they
go through a self-transformation and personal growth at
the same time.
 In more specific terms, the NSTP trainees are expected to initiate
community-based interventions in the form of projects and activities meant to
address the multi-faced issues and concerns supported by needs
assessment/analysis study that multi-faced problems there from which impedes
the important aspiration of the community people in the area of service.
 The trainees, in their own little way, contribute in the uplift of the quality of
life of the people in the service areas and, at the same time, develop their ethics of
service imbued with the good citizenship values of Makadiyos (Godly), Makabayan
(Patriotic), Makatao (Humanitarian), and Makakalikasan (Nature lover) thereby
better preparing them as reservists in responding to the call of the times.
 Objectives of NSTP
Community Immersion
The community immersion requirement of NSTP is a mechanism specifically
designed to allow student-trainees to:

Define community immersion as an approach and strategy of

developing projects in serving people and communities.

Enrich knowledge and competencies on community immersion

as a process for development;
.

Apply the principle and concepts of working in the community

through immersion projects and activities;
 Expose NSTP trainees in depressed, deprived and unprivileged
communities and marginalized groups of our society;

Appreciate the values of community immersion as means of

developing themselves as citizen and helping people improve their
way of life and in alleviating their living conditions.
.

Enhance civic consciousness and defense preparedness; and

Develop ethics of service imbued with good citizenship

values.
THANK YOU!