MISSION
The National Service Training Program Office is the unit tasked to implement the NSTP Law.
The NSTP Office facilitates the enhancement of civic consciousness among students through modules and activities designed for the students’ participation in national development. It assists students connect with agencies in formulating solutions within their reach or capacity. It hones their servant leadership competencies and enables them to translate their personal commitment into social awareness and action.
It provides opportunities for volunteerism and collaboration with others to embody the spirit of patriotism and ethics of service.
| Goals and Objectives |
| Develop students who are conscious and mindful of who they are |
| Enhance their well-being through health-related discussions and activities |
| Enable students to discover things about themselves |
| Career |
| Produce students who can incorporate their community service experience into informed career options |
| Enhance students’ appreciation of volunteerism and community service as a significant entry in their future employability portfolio |
| Enable students to clarify their career decision by factoring in their community involvement experience |
| Social |
| Develop socially responsible and active citizens inside and outside one’s home and community |
| Create a reliable and trustworthy network of relationships in actual and virtual settings, inside and outside one’s immediate community |
| Integrate a sense of accountability in all social involvement and engagement |
| Embody worthwhile participation and contribution in one’s place of studies, work, and other activities |
| Produce civic-minded, participative, and ethical citizens |
| Establish one’s best practices in personal and communal transaction |
| Integrate one’s values in pressing communal and national engagements |
| Develop students as initiators and catalysts for positive change in various levels of communal and environmental settings |
| Enhance opportunities for volunteerism in school-based programs and projects of external community/agency partners |
| Inculcate a deeper sense of concern and responsibility to the environment |
National Service Training Program 1 – Course Information
Course Code: NST0101
Course Title: NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM 1
Course Prerequisite: None
Course Credit: 3 units (equivalent to 54-90 hours of coursework)
Course Description:
The course mandated by Republic Act No. 9163, otherwise known as the National Service Training Act of 2001, aims to enhance the civic consciousness of the students by developing the ethics of service and patriotism while undergoing Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS). NSTP 1 covers topics through big sessions in campus and online that will tap on the student enthusiasm and idealism for self and well-being, nation-building, leadership and civic involvement. Combining active reflection in a creative dynamic learning environment, it prepares the students into actual community service in NSTP 2.
Course Objectives:
As a service training curriculum, National Service Training Program (NSTP) aims to “promote civic consciousness among the youth and shall develop their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-being.” It shall inculcate in the youth patriotism, nationalism, and advance their involvement in public and civic affairs (RA 9163, 2001).
The Ƶ NSTP 1 core curriculum, likewise, aims to:
- Reinforce and empower the students’ ethical and spiritual growth through values formation with emphasis on Ƶ core values of fortitude, excellence, and uprightness.
- Inculcate commitment, discipline, and a sense of social responsibility in the students.
- Enhance the commitment and social involvement of students in the Ƶ partner agencies and communities.
- Improve the physical wellness of students in health-related subjects.
- Motivate the students to exhibit a sense of concern and consciousness with respect to the environment.
- Instill conviction that volunteerism can transform the pace and nature of development and the idea that everyone can contribute their time and energy toward peace and order development.
Key Topics:
*GENERAL ORIENTATION (f2f)
- TAMARAW CULTURE OF VOLUNTEERISM (f2f)
- RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP (f2f)
- GOOD CITIZENSHIP
- PAKIKIPAGKAPWA-TAO
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY
- ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE USE AND ABUSE
- BLS AND FIRST AID TRAINING (8 hrs. f2f)
- DRRM TRAINING (8 hrs. ONLINE)
- NATIONAL AND GLOBAL SITUATION (ONLINE)
- PEACE EDUCATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS (f2f)
*INTRO. TO COMMUNITY BASED MANAGEMENT & NSRC OVERVIEW (f2f)
National Service Training Program 2 – Course Information
Course Code: NST0102
Course Title: NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM 2
Course Prerequisite: NSTP 1
Course Credit: 3 units (equivalent to 54-90 hours of coursework)
Course Description:
This course is the natural follow through of the Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS) the students underwent in NSTP 1. It includes the programs and activities highlighted by the community service/immersion that are contributory to the welfare and the betterment of the life of the members of the community. Among the areas where the students can make their contribution through CWTS 2 are education, environment, entrepreneurship, health and safety and the moral development of the members of the community where they render service. It is hoped that this course will point them to a clearer life-long engagement in service and volunteerism.
The Ƶ NSTP 2 curriculum, likewise, aims to address the following:
- Instill conviction that volunteerism can transform the pace and nature of development.
- Offer everyone the chance to contribute their time and energy toward peace and order and community development.
- Help students maximize their leaning opportunities through the activities outside the classroom.
- Train students to teach literacy and numeracy skills to children and out-of-school youth.
- Train students to conduct activities that contribute to general welfare and betterment of life in the community.
- Enable students to discover things about themselves and equip them to respond properly to situations in the community and in life.
- Make them aware and be appreciative of what they can do and inspire them to go out of their way to serve beyond the consideration of school requirements.
| ACTIVITY | BROAD DESCRIPTION |
| NSTP 2 General Orientation | Discussion of what will happen during the coursework—discussion of the course syllabus, requirements and grading. |
| Immersion Project Training Seminar | A seminar on Community Development to train the students in community service and immersion |
| Community Immersion Project 2-3 visits to the assigned community/institution | NSTP students will be deployed to specific barangay and community, institutions where they will render service and at the same time learn about themselves, the community and explore further ways of becoming productive members of the society. |
| Presentation and Submission of Community Immersion Project Completion Report | This is the venue for the students to submit the completion requirements and share their insights and realization concerning their community service/immersion. |
Partner Institutions and Communities:
- GMA Kapuso Foundation, Quezon City
- Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly, San Juan City
- White Cross Orphanage, San Juan, City
- Social Service Faith in Action Volunteers Assoc. Inc.
- N.S. Amoranto (Gintong Silahis) Barangay Hall, Quezon City
- Barangay La Paz, Makati City
- Ramona S. Tirona Memorial School, Dasmariñas Cavite City
- Kaunlaran-Kapatiran Foundation Inc., Manila City
- Brgy. 395, Manila
- Brgy. Payatas, Quezon City
- Arboretum Project, Ƶ Cavite
NATIONAL SERVICE RESERVE CORPS
The objective of the group is “to inculcate in the youth patriotism, nationalism, and advance their involvement in public and civic affairs”. The National Service Reserve Corps (NSRC) bifurcates into two units: the School Based NSRC (SBNU) and the Community Based NSRC (CBNU).
The aim of both units of NSRC is to provide trained, motivated, and organized manpower reserve who can be tapped by the State for DRRM, civic welfare, literacy, national emergency, environmental protection, and other similar endeavors in the service of the nation.
What are SBNU and CBNU?
SBNU refers to the established organization of students or graduates of the CWTS or LTS components of the NSTP who are still enrolled in the HEIs TVIs.
CBNU refers to the established organizations of graduates of the CWTS or LTS components of the NSTP Program who have graduated from their formal academic education under the HEIs under CHED or technical-vocational institutions (TVIs) under TESDA.
The Ƶ School based National Service Reserve Corps) shall be comprised of three committees:
| The Tamaraw Civic Welfare and Literacy Volunteers | The group will be responsible for projects related to civic welfare and Literacy activities |
| The Tamaraw Bio-Community Protection Advocates | The group will be responsible for projects on environmental protection/ preservation and rehabilitation as well as other concerns on the bio-community |
| Tamaraw Emergency Responders | The group will be responsible for DRRM concerns and other emergencies, calamities and crises |
The Ƶ SBNU shall be guided by R.A. 9163 (NSTP Law 2001) and the Updated IGP of NSRC 2021
How to become a member of the Ƶ SBNU CORE GROUP?
- All STUDENTS who have completed the courses of NSTP are automatic members of the Ƶ NSRC unit upon issuance of their serial numbers
- The Ƶ SBNU Core Group are the selected volunteer Ƶ NSRC students who will undergo various training to become fully equipped, motivated and organized and may be tapped by the State for DRRM, civic welfare, literacy, national emergency, environmental protection and other similar endeavors in the service of the nation
Manner of recruitment and selection of the Ƶ NSRC CORE GROUP?
- By invitation sent to email addresses of those sophomore students who wrote the best reflection papers in their NSTP 1, and NSTP 2 courses as recommended by their respective facilitators
- By invitation to upper classmen
- Invited students who are willing to join are instructed to fill out the application form sent via link to Microsoft forms
- Volunteers will be interviewed and segregated as to their interest to be part of specific committees