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Module 5 - CHN Ii

This document discusses community health nursing and community organizing participatory action research (COPAR). It describes COPAR as a continuous process of educating, working with, and mobilizing communities. The critical steps of COPAR include integration, social investigation, program planning, mobilization, and evaluation. The phases of the COPAR process are pre-entry, entry, organization-building, and sustenance/strengthening. COPAR aims to make health services accessible to underserved communities through maximizing participation.

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Module 5 - CHN Ii

This document discusses community health nursing and community organizing participatory action research (COPAR). It describes COPAR as a continuous process of educating, working with, and mobilizing communities. The critical steps of COPAR include integration, social investigation, program planning, mobilization, and evaluation. The phases of the COPAR process are pre-entry, entry, organization-building, and sustenance/strengthening. COPAR aims to make health services accessible to underserved communities through maximizing participation.

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COMMUNITY

HEALTH
NURSING

RICA MARIE B VALDEZ, MAN


LAURENCE ADENA, MAN
MODULE DESCRIPTION

This module presents concepts and


principles in the community nursing
process to perform a safe, appropriate,
humanistic and holistic care to population
groups and communities
LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of this module, the student should be able to:
1. Utilize the nursing process in managing community health
concerns.
2. Determine the types of community diagnosis
3. Formulate a community diagnosis using the different schemes in
stating a community diagnosis
Topic XII. COMMUNITY
ORGANIZING PARTICIPATORY
ACTION
RESEARCH
 
IMPORTANCE OF COPAR 

1. COPAR is an important tool for community development and people


empowerment as this helps the community workers to generate
community participation in development activities.
2. COPAR prepares people to eventually take over the management of
a development program in the future. 
3. COPAR maximizes community participation and involvement:
community resources are mobilized for health development services. 
CRITICAL STEPS (ACTIVITIES): 

1. Integration
2. Social Investigation 
3. Tentative program planning 
4. Groundwork 
5. The meeting 
6. Role Play 
7. Mobilization or action 
8. Evaluation 
9. Reflection 
10. Organization  
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH
(HRDP III-COPAR)

is developed to make health services


accessible and available for depressed
and underserved communities in the
Philippines.
Community Organizing Participatory Action
Research (COPAR) - is a continuous and a sustained
process of:

1. EDUCATING THE PEOPLE


2. WORKING WITH THE PEOPLE
3. MOBILIZING WITH THE PEOPLE
 Process
the sequence of steps whereby members of a community come together to critically
assess to evaluate community conditions and work together to improve those conditions.

 Structure
- refers to a particular group of community members that work together for a common
health and health related goals.
Emphasis of COPAR:

 COPAR maximizes community participation and involvement


 COPAR could be an alternative in situations wherein health interventions in
Public Health Care do not require direct involvement of modern medical
practitioners
 COPAR gets people actively involved in selection and support of community
health workers
 Through COPAR, community resources are mobilized for selected health
services
 COPAR improves both projects effectiveness during implementation
PHASES OF COPAR PROCESS:

1. PRE-ENTRY PHASE - is the initial phase of the organizing process where the community
organizer looks for communities to serve and help. Activities include:
Preparation of the Institution
Site Selection
Criteria for Initial Site Selection
Identifying Potential Municipalities
Identifying Potential Barangay
Choosing Final Barangay
Identifying Host Family
REMEMBER:

 COMMUNITY CONSULTATIONS

ISSUE CHECKING
 SITE SELECTION
 INVESTIGATION
 DEPARTAMENTAL INVESTIGATION
2. ENTRY PHASE 
 sometimes called the social preparation phase. Is crucial in determining which
strategies for organizing would suit the chosen community. Success of the
activities depend on how much the community organizers has integrated with the
community.

 Guidelines for Entry


 Activities in the Entry Phase
 Core Group Formation
3. ORGANIZATION-BUILDING PHASE

 Entails the formation of more formal structure and the inclusion of more
formal procedure of planning, implementing, and evaluating community-
wise activities. It is at this phase where the organized leaders or groups are
being given training (formal, informal, OJT) to develop their style in
managing their own concerns/programs.
Key Activities

 Community Health Organization (CHO)


 Preparation of legal requirements
 Guidelines in the organization of the CHO by the core group
 Election of officers
 Research Team Committee
 Planning Committee
 Health Committee Organization
 Others
 Formation of by-laws by the CHO 
4. SUSTENANCE AND STRENGTHENING PHASE

 Occurs when the community organization has already been


established and the community members are already actively
participating in community-wide undertakings.
 At this point, the different committee’s setup in the organization-
building phase are already expected to be functioning by way of
planning, implementing and evaluating their own programs, with the
overall guidance from the community-wide organization.
KEY ACTIVITIES

 Trainingof CHO for monitoring and implementing of


community health program.
 Identification of secondary leaders.
 Linkaging and networking.
 Conduct of mobilization on health and development
concerns.
 Implementation of livelihood projects.

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