Community Organization

• Objectives:
1. Organize people----- Goal: to develop self-reliance or independence and changes
2. Mobilize people within the individual
3. Work with people
4. Educate people------
1. Knowledge
2. Attitude
3. Skills
• Phases:
1. Preparatory
2. Organizing
3. Mobilizing
4. Education (training)
5. Collaborating
6. Phase out
• Policies: Preparatory Phase
1. Area of Selection
• It should be DOPE Community: Depressed, Oppressed, Poor & Exploited, a new criteria for community organization
• “Old Criteria”→ it must be a virgin community=meaning no agency has gone there.
• This is a dangerous situation that’s why RA 7305: Magna Carta for Public Workers was provided-a PHN is to receive a hazard pay of 20-25% of monthly salary
2. Entry: the 1st thing to do upon entering the community is to have a courtesy call with the Barangay Captain, introduce self & group, purpose, present the project, activities, etc.
3. Integration/Immersion (CIP)
• Immersion is imbibing the life situation/condition of the community by living, eating & sleeping with the family to be able to understand their situation
• It requires 2 Qualities of PHN:
1. Empathy
2. Sympathy (Integration)
4. Community Study: Diagnosis of Community-COPAR
• Makes use of the Nursing Process/Problem Solving Approach
• Prioritized which among the problems identified is to be attended 1st like in nature, magnitude, modifiability, preventive potential, salience
• Prioritization of Community Problems
• Health Status is to be prioritized because it is from the outcome of report of health condition/status. Problem identified will be the indicator of health condition→ RA 3753: Vital Health Statistics.
• Indicators of Health Status/Condition:
1. Fertility: ↑ CBR=community is overpopulated=HS
2. Morbidity: IR (new cases) & PR (old cases)=HS
3. Mortality: Deaths like children dying of pneumonia=HS
• Health Resource(s): 5 M’s-Manpower/Man, money, machinery, material & methods (+) available facilities-Hospital/Clinic, mode of transportation, market, school & movie houses for recreation.
• Health Related: Categories according to 5 Aspects of Man=PEMSS
• P hysical, P hysiological, P sychological
• E motional
• M ental
• S ocial
• S piritual
• Organizing Phase
5. Choosing Potential Community Leaders
6. Core Group Formation
7. Community Assembly: Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR)
• Attend the assembly of the family/families.
• Families in the community should be represented, any family members can represent his/her family as long as he/she is a RESPONSIBLE (one who also can comprehend) member of that family.
• Barangay Captain/Chairman need not necessary be the leader. He can recommend.
8. Mobilization-let the members of the community do the work. PHN should only SUPERVISE.
9. Supervision of Health Education
10. Evaluation with Expansion-there should be a perceived change before one leaves that community. Never leave without change but be able to evaluate the population.