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This document outlines the phases and activities involved in COPAR (Community Organization for Population and Reproductive Health), and describes the nurse's responsibilities at each phase. The phases include pre-entry, entry, community diagnosis/study, and community organization/capability-building. Some key responsibilities of the nurse are to train others in COPAR, coordinate site selection, conduct social investigations, establish rapport with community members, and help gather data for the community diagnosis. The overall goal is to work with communities to understand their needs and help build their capacity for healthcare.

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Copar Module

This document outlines the phases and activities involved in COPAR (Community Organization for Population and Reproductive Health), and describes the nurse's responsibilities at each phase. The phases include pre-entry, entry, community diagnosis/study, and community organization/capability-building. Some key responsibilities of the nurse are to train others in COPAR, coordinate site selection, conduct social investigations, establish rapport with community members, and help gather data for the community diagnosis. The overall goal is to work with communities to understand their needs and help build their capacity for healthcare.

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DEEP DIVE

Phases in
Activities Nurse’s Responsibilities
COPAR
• Pre-Entry • Preparation of the • Train faculty and
institution students in COPAR.
• Formulate plans for
institutionalizing
COPAR
• Revise/enrich
curriculum and
immersion program
• Coordinate
participants of other
departments

• Setting of
issues/considerations • Make a list of
related to site selection sources of
information and
possible facility
resources both
government and
private
Development of criteria for recommended

site selection

• Design a plan for


community
development
including all its
Site selections activities and
• strategies for care
development

• Initial networking
with local
government
• Conduct preliminary
special investigation.
• Make a long/short
list of potential
communities.
• Do ocular survey of
listed communities.

Criteria for Initial


Site Selection

• Must have a
population of
100-200 families.
• Economically
depressed.N o
• Identifying potential strong resistance
municipalities from the
community. • No
serious peace
• Identifying potential and order
community problem. • No
similar group or
organization
holding the
same
program.

Make long/short list


of potential
Choosing final community municipalities

Do the same

process as in
selecting a
municipality. Consult

key informants and
residents.
Coordinate with
local government
• and NGOs for future
activities.

Identifying host family



• Conduct informal
interviews with
community residents
and key informants.
• Determine the need
of the program in
the community.
• Take note of political
development.
• Develop community
profiles for
secondary data.
• Develop survey
tools.
• Pay courtesy call to
community leaders.
• Choose foster
families based on
guidelines

• House is
strategically located
in the community.
• Should not belong to
the rich segment.
• Respected by both
formal and informal
leaders.
• Neighbors are not
hesitant to enter the
house.
• No member of the
host family should
be moving out in the
community
• Entry • Integration with the •
Recognize the role of
community local authorities by
• Sensitization of paying them visits to
the community/inform inform their presence
ation campaigns and
Continuing social activities
• •
investigation •
• Core group (GG) formation
• Avoid raising
Development of criteria for expectations of
selection of CG members people
• Defining the roles/ functions/ • Living with
tasks/ of CG the
• Coordination/ dialogue/ • community
consultation with other Establishing rapport
community organizations with the people in
continuing effort to
• Self-awareness and imbibe community
leadership training (SALT)/ life.
action planning • Seek out to converse
with people where
they usually
congregate
• Lend a hand in
household chores
• Deepening social
investigation/commu
nity study
• Verification and
enrichment of data
collected from initial
survey
• Conduct baseline
survey by students,
results relayed
through community
assembly.
• Community • Selection of the research • Gather basic
Diagnosis/St team information on socio
• Training on data collection economic conditions
udy
methods and including religious
techniques/capability- practices, overall
building (includes physical
development of data environment,
collection tools) general health
• Planning for the actual patterns and
gathering of data available health
• Data gathering resources
• Training on data validation Discard the visitor or

(includes tabulation and guest image
preliminary analysis of Respect for
data) •
community culture
• Community validation and traditions are
• Presentation of the
utmost important
community
study/diagnosis and
recommendations
• Prioritization of community
needs/problems for action
• Community • Meeting with the officials. •
Organization/ Gather team
Capability - • members.
Building Participate in
Phase community meetings
with the officials to
draw guidelines for
the organization of
the community
health organization
(CHO).

Courtesy calls to
• Identifying problems. existing leaders and
identification of
potential leaders.

• Establish rapport to
develop trust and
effective
communication with
the members of the
team. Develop

management
systems and
Spreading awareness and procedures,
• including delineation
soliciting solutions or
suggestions. of the roles,
functions and tasks
of officers and
members of the
CHO.
Determine possible
threats and
• formulate effective
intervention.

Analysis of presented Recruit members


• solution. (Engaging the
• community in
resource

enhancement

activities)
Brainstorming with
the members to
Planning of the activities. come up with
problem solving
• solutions.
Encouraging
individuals to be part
of the development
program for better
and faster
implementation.


Interpret suggested
ideas for
development.

Elaborate plan to the
members to conduct
• recommended
solutions.
Organizing the people to
build their own
organization.
Organize working
• committees/ task
groups
(e.g.,education and
training,
membership of
committees)

Dissemination tasks
• accordingly.
Registration of the Encourage
organization • leadership formation.
• Networking and
building alliances
with other
organizations
• Strengthening
socioeconomic
services
Implementing the said and resource
activities. • accessing.
Consolidating
• organization's
operating
procedures.


Training and team
building
• Training of leaders
and/or community
Evaluation volunteers to do
organizing work
themselves.
• Conduct specialized
• training for
organizational
development
training of potential
trainers and
secondline leaders.

• Coordinate with the


officials to work out
legal requirements
for the
establishment of the
CHO
• Strengthening and
formalizing the
organization by
registering it with an
appropriate agency
through a local
government
accreditation
process, if
appropriate.

• Participate during
conduction of
actions to perform
the plan for
development.
• Perform health
programs beneficial
for the individuals,
family, community,
and special group
members from the
area.
• Maintain and
monitor resource
enhancement
measures.

Periodic

assessment
undertaken within
the implementation
period to measure
progress.
• Assesses the
degree to which the
implementation of
community plans
has been
successfully
achieved.
• Monitoring of
progress and
effectiveness of the
projects of the
organization.
• Community • Organization and training •
Develop the
Action of community health selection criteria for
workers CHWs. Select CHWs
o Development of
that are interested,
criteria for the
selection of CHWs willing, and possess
o Selection of CHWs good qualities. Once
o Training of CHWs met the criteria and

selected, nurses can
now train the CHWs.
Initiate formulation of

CHW development
and training program.
Educate elected
officials about the
responsibilities and

roles they should
fulfill.


Encourage the
people to identify
Planning, implementation, their problem in their
monitoring, and evaluation community and to set
of health up goals for their
services/interventions problem. Once
schemes and community identified, inform
development projects them to implement
an initiative action to
• solve the problems.
Let the health
workers and
community leaders
monitor if the action
is being
implemented well
and to evaluate the
effect of the project in
the community. Allow
• the community to
determine the pace
and scope of
implementations.
• Regular monitoring
and continuing
community formation

program.
Throughout the
mobilization phase,
regular meetings are
conducted for
Setting up of monitoring and
linkages/network referral continuous training
systems
for community
leaders Formulates
• supervisory plan and
conducts
supervisory visits for
• implementation of
the projects or
Initial identification and programs.
implementation of resource
mobilization schemes
Facilitate the
• community leaders in
setting up the
linkages. They
should be the one to
do the connection or
to do the linkages.
• Involves referrals to
appropriate levels of
care when indicated.
Establish linkages
and collaborative
relationships with
other agencies and
health professionals


Inform the people
about the need to
identify the available
resources they have
in their community in
order for them to use
it in solving their
problems and issues.
• Tell the community
that these resources
could be human
resources, material
resources or
community
resources
• Identify and help the
community for
resource
mobilization
schemes.
• Share to the
community the
possible projects that
may help generate
resources for
community
development
projects.
• Sustenance • • Encourage client’s to
and Formulation and ratification be independent.
Strengthenin of constitution and by-laws. Nurses must
• •
g Phase Identification and formulate and ratify
development of the constitution to
“secondary” leaders. help and guide the
• Setting up and community.
institutionalization of Education and
financing scheme for • training of CHO for
community health monitoring and
programs/activities. implementing health
• Formalization and programs
institutionalization of Developing
linkages, networks and • secondary leaders.
referral systems. Linkage and

Development and • networking
implementation of viable Conduct of
management systems and mobilization on
procedures, committees, •
health and
continuing
education/training of developing concerns
leaders, CHWs, community Implementing
residents. • of livelihood
projects.
• Turn-Over/ • Turn-over of works to the • Keeps a written
Phase-Out organization account of services
rendered,
observations,
condition, needs,
problems and
attitude of the client,
in community
activities,
accomplishments
made, and etc.

Responsible for the
dissemination of
pertinent information
to appropriate
authorities, agencies,
and most especially
to the
client
• • Develops the
people’s capabilities
to keep/maintain
Documentation their recording and
reporting system

• • Making sure that


members are self-
reliant and
empowered
Leaving the immersion site

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