Community immersion is a strategy used in community organizing to give NSTP trainees a better understanding of community concerns by exposing them to actual life situations in deprived communities. The goal is for trainees to undergo changes that make them more civic-minded and socially responsible citizens by developing an appreciation for community service work. Each trainee must live with community members to understand their concerns and go through self-transformation and personal growth while addressing multi-faced community issues through needs-based projects and activities.

1. As a concept, community immersion
a strategy in community organizing that is soughtto imbibe among the NSTP
trainees a better understanding and realization of the different community
concerns through exposureon actual life situations specifically in deprived,
depressed and under privileged (DDU) communities. These experiences will allow
them to facilitate them to undergo certain changes that will make them
civicconscious and socially responsiblecitizen. Corollary, community immersion,
as a process, is aimed at developing among student-trainees, through the training
program, their appreciation of rendering community works which is
quintessential in affording for them the opportunity to experience and put
themselves in real-life situations in the communities they serve. For these
reasons, each trainee musthave a genuine feel of living with the people in order
that they may understand and relate with community concerns as they go
through a self-transformation and personalgrowth at the same time. In more
specific terms, the NSTP trainees are expected to initiate community-based
interventions in the form of projects and activities meant to address the multi-
faced issues and concerns supported by needs assessment/analysis study that
multi-faced problems there fromwhich impedes the important aspiration of the
community people in the area of service