The ECCD journey among DLSU-CWTS day care service providers

• Main Author: Fernandez, Carl G.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Day care centers > Philippines > Manila; Child care services > Philippines > Manila; Community-based social services > Philippines > Manila; Service learning > Philippines > Manila; Civic and Community Engagement; Social Work
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/4151
• Institution: De La Salle University

Academic institutions and communities must collaboratively work towards social development and nation building. This is one of the primary reasons why the Center for Social Concern and Action (COSCA) has forged partnership with various organizations implementing community based early childhood care and development (ECCD) programs since the start of the National Service Training Program-Civic Welfare Training Service (NSTP-CWTS) in De La Salle University (DLSU) because they believed that the holistic formation process should begin in this early stage of life. Moreover, the vision and mission of these organizations are attuned in the university's vision of becoming a leading learner-centered research university, bridging faith and scholarship, in the service of society especially the poor. In fact, they served as co-formators and key actors in teaching minds a, touching hearts and transforming lives as demonstrated through the students' actual community immersion experience with the lost, the least and the last. Hence, the NSTP-CWTS team took the initiative in conducting this phenomenological inquiry on the situation of DLSU-CWTS day care partner organizations to describe the journey of the implementers and how the ECCD program implementation took place geared towards advancing the existing mechanism and systems and preparing each stakeholder for possible opportunities and future action plans