CESC

1. YOUTH IN COMMUNITY ACTION
Group 4: Cyrha, Lotchemey, Dianne

2. Topics to be covered:
➢The youth
➢The importance and role of
the youth to community
action.

3. THE YOUTH
Nation-Building Act. of 1995 (RA 8044)
- defines youth as the critical period in a person’s
growth and development from the onset of adolescence
toward the peak of mature, self-reliant, and responsible
adulthood comprising the considerable sector of the
population from the age 15 to 30 years old.

4. PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
- Youth define as those within the adolescence and
early adulthood phase.
In a study undertaken by YAPS, it was revealed
that many young people do not go through the
expected course as many get side-tracked to
family life. The youth are mostly concerned with
issues related to sexual-risked behavior and and
drugs.

5. The other issues that the youth face includes:
➢ access to quality education and limited training.
➢ increasing number out of out-of-school youth
and
➢ The lack of educational and scholarship
opportunities
➢ low educational attainment

6. ➢ high cost of education
➢ limited government funding for education
➢ the high incidence of poverty
➢ the youth’s lack of knowledge on history
and culture

7. In the same study, the youth generally feel that they are
adequately involved in decisions that affect their lives and
have significant influence in key activities that affect their
lives at home, in school and in the organization to which
they belong.
Yet according to them, what they lacked is involvement and
influence in the community and local affairs. They may be
involved in government programs and and projects but they
are not involved in the more crucial stage of project
development.

8. THE IMPORTANCE AND ROLE OF YOUTH IN
COMMUNITY ACTION
The Philippine Constitution states, “The state
recognizes the vital role of the youth in nation-building
and shall protect their physical, moral, spiritual,
intellectual, and social well-being (Article 11, section
B)”.

9. The youth are a vital resource of the community.
They are considered as Forerunners of social
transformation and remain as an essential asset of the
community because of their creativity, resourcefulness,
and keenness.
It is necessary to provide them with the essential
support for knowledge enhancement and capacity
building. However, the youth need more just
knowledge and skills.

10. 4 Integrated strategies that were formulated to
protect their social well-being.
1. Building youth-caring communities
2. Developing community-caring youth
3. Reengineering the mechanism through
which the youth services are delivered
4. Becoming more responsible to the specific
needs of the youth.

11. Performance Tasks:
Community Briefer - this task requires you to make a
description of the situation of your chosen community.
Community Analysis - this task requires
analysis of community engagement projects.
Proposal for Youth Community Plan - the plan
is comprised of the following parts:

12. (a)a community situationer that describes the political,
economic, cultural and ecological situation;
(b) a community analysis that assesses or examines the
interrelationships, causes, and effects of the community social
problems;
(c) a recommended plan of action that present
possible projects based on the result of the
analysis;
(d) identification of a community development
project plan that is feasible, realistic, and
implementable within the given period.

13. DEVELOP GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR A
COMMUNITY YOUTH ORGANIZATION
The guiding principles will serve as the foundation or
framework that will guide what the organization does. It
also reflects the organization’s value and the things it
desires to accomplish.
CORE VALUES and PRINCIPLES

14. Below are the recommended parts of the
Community Youth Guiding Principles:
1. Organizational Core Values - the standard of
organizational behavior.
2. Organizational Mission - the organization’s reason for
existence. The mission statement is a means to share the
goal of an organization.

15. 3. Organizational Vision - the organization’s picture of
the future. This is a set of ideals and principles that the
organization holds on to.
4. Organizational Image - the unique element or niche of
the organization.
5. Guiding Principles - the organization’s beliefs and
philosophy concerning what the organization does.

16. Test1
Direction: Read the questions carefully and identify the correct answer from the
box below.
Youth Physical YAPS Community Briefer
Interrelationships Intellectual Resourcefulness
Nation-Builing Act 1995 (RA 8044) Moral Causes
Physical Effects Keenness Social well-Being
Guiding Principles Creativity Psychosocial perspective

17. 1. According to ______ youth is the critical period in a personal growth.
2. ______ defined as the within the adolescence and early adulthood phase.
3 In a study undertaken by ______ , it was revealed that many young people
do not go through expected course as many get side-tracked to family life.
4. The _____ generally feel that they are adequately involved in decision that
affect their lives.
5. The state recognizes the vital role of the youth in nation-building and shall
protect their _____,______, ______, ______, and ______.

18. 8. The _____ are mostly concerned with issues related to sexual-risk behavior
and drugs.
9. From the ______, youth is defined as those within the adolescence and early
adulthood phase.
10. They are considered as forerunners of social transformation and remain as
an essential asset of the community because of their ______, ______ and _____
6. A community analysis that assesses or examines the _____, _____, _____
of the community social problems.
7. _____ are not only a dynamic foundation of community force but are also
considered as community change agents.

19. Test2
Direction: Enumerate the correct answer.
11-18. What are the 8 issues that the youth faced?
19. This task requires you to make a description of the situation of your chosen
community?
20-24. Illustrate the 4 community situationer?
25. These guide how things are done in the organization?
26. This is a set of ideals and principles that the organization holds on to?

20. 27. This task requires analysis of community engagement
projects?
28-30. In the importance and role of youth in community action
discussed that there are 4 integrated strategies were formulated
to protect the social well-being of a person, Enumerate them and
give at least 3.

21. Answer KEY
Test1
1. Nation-building act of 1995(RA8044)
2. Youth
3. YAPS
4. Youth
5. Physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, social well-being
6. Interrelationships, causes, effects
7.Youth
8. Youth
9. Psychosocial perspective
10. Creativity, resourcefulness, keennes

22. Test2
11-18.
Limited access to qually education and training,
Increasing number of out-of-school youth,
The lack of educational and scholarship
opportunities,
Low educational attainment,
High cost of education,
Limited government funding for education,
The high incidence of poverty,
The youth’s lack of knowledge on history and
culture.
Answer KEY
19. Community Briefer
20-24. Political, economic, cultural, ecological
situation
25. Organizational Core Values
26.Organizational Vision
27. Community Case Analysis
28-30. Building youth-caring communities,
Developing community-caring youth,
Reengineering the mechanism ,
Becoming more responsive to the specific needs
Of the youth.