COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM

RATIONALE:

The School is the nucleus of a neighborhood or community and believed to be the foundation for community partnerships that are beneficial to students, families, businesses, agencies, and other civic organizations. Furthermore, many of today's leaders in education, business and community development are coming to realize that schools alone cannot prepare our youth for productive adulthood. It is evident that schools and communities should work closely with each other to meet their mutual goal – to effect lasting change in the community.

The rationale of this program – Community Involvement Program, is to promote and intensify one’s social awareness that will conjure participation and involvement towards the realization of becoming communally responsible citizens in responding to the needs of the marginalized sector of society. It serves the community especially the adopted community in Barangay Duljo-Fatima by planning, organizing, facilitating and initiating school programs and projects that give the underprivileged the opportunity to enhance their skills and capabilities to become empowered citizens and agents of social transformation in the light of gospel truths and Ignacian core values.

VISION STATEMENT:

The SMASN-CIP envisions itself as the forefront of community development leading the people to become communally responsible citizens capable of improving themselves and that of others to become effective members of the society imbued by the Ignacian core values.

CIP MISSION

The mission of SMASN-CIP is to provide opportunities for improvement of knowledge and skills of the identified community underscoring the Ignacian core values geared toward becoming communally responsible and effective citizens.

OBJECTIVES

The SMASN – CIP Program aims to:

• provide opportunities to personnel and students enhancing socialization and cooperation with the members of the adopted community and other charitable institutions; and instill among them the value of social responsibility imbued by the Ignacian core value of humble servanthood;

• create an atmosphere conducive for collaboration between the school community and the adopted community;

• promote the enhancement of spiritual values, knowledge and skills among members of the adopted community thus helping them to become empowered and effective members of the society; and

• strengthen linkages between and among members of the school and of the community by providing programs and projects that can help achieve their mutual goal - to effect lasting change in the community.