Community Service Consultative Body

In carrying out extension activities, the University seeks to coordinate sectoral efforts and resources for the maximum benefit of both service providers and recipients toward the attainment of the University’s vision. Participatory management of ICESP and sector-based projects and activities is undertaken through the CSCB or the Community Service Consultative Body consisting of representatives from colleges, basic education, non-teaching and administrators, the chairperson of which is the Head of OCES. Alumni are also invited when necessary.

Functions of the CSCB Representatives

The CSCB sectoral representatives are volunteers who do not receive any compensation in doing the following liaison functions between OCES and their respective departments or sectors:

• Dissemination of information about community extension projects for the purpose of mobilizing active involvement and generating appropriate resources
• Attendance to regular and emergency or special meetings convened to formulate recommendations for:
  • Policy formulation;
  • Program development;
  • Project area selection;
  • Areas and level of involvement, and
  • Project planning and evaluation

National Service Training Program (NSTP)

National Service Training Program (NSTP) is one of the programs under the University’s Office of the Community Extension Services. This is a constitutionally mandated course or program designed to equip college students with skills and experiences for their meaningful involvement in nation building. The training sessions during the first semester are designed to prepare students for their immersion in communities in the second semester by providing them the basic concepts and theories needed for doing community work.

Components

The University offers three components:

• Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS)
• Literacy Training Service (LTS)
• Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)

Services and Partner Communities

NSTP students serve different barangays, schools and parishes in Angeles City. Following the process of needs assessment and consultation with barangay and school heads and parish priests, students extend services such as:

• Tutorials;
• Assistance in the construction of visual aids/instructional aids;
• Barangay profiling;
• Profiling of Catholic parishioners
• Mural painting;
• Setting up of reading areas;
• Advocacy drives/seminars on health, child rights, waste management and other issues;
• Environmental preservation activities ;
• Facility improvement;
• Basic catechism;
• Street education, and
• Other related literacy and civic welfare services

NSTP also works with Government agencies and NGOs to complement their services as well as with other agencies or marginalized sectors that request the services of NSTP students. Some of these agencies include but are not limited to the following:

• City Social Welfare Development Office (CSWD);
• DENR and CENRO, and
• DepEd Division Office

Partners and Linkages

You can share in big or small ways:

The community programs and services are facilitated through the technical, material, and financial support of our students, employees, partners and other donors. We believe that each one has something to share, including the communities or sectors being served. Through our shared actions, we can help improve the lives of Filipino families.

Serve our partner communities:

• Public schools
• Underserved barangays in Angeles and Pampanga
• Children / persons with disabilities
• Inmates and children in critical / vulnerable circumstances
• Indigenous peoples (IPs), senior citizens and the youth
• GOs, NGOs and parishes that may request services to complement their programs for particular sectors or communities