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Community Extension Services is one of the most important trilogy functions of Higher Educational Institutions. It paved the way of SVCI in sharing its knowledge and resources to the target community. The Community Extension Services Division was created in order to address the needs of the marginalized and underprivileged sector of the community in accord by local, national, and international concerns such as, among other things, articulated respectively in barangay and municipality development plans, government development agencies’ thrusts and specific CHED guidelines, ASEAN University Network (AUN) Community Engagement guidelines, and UNs Sustainable Development Goals

The center has two classifications of extension services: departmental level and institutional level. The departmental level has a specific scope of programs that they are going to render to the chosen beneficiary. Its services are in accordance with the nature of degree program/s that the department is offering. The institutional level has a bigger coverage where academic and non-academic offices are going to engage into a collaborative effort in order to address the different needs of the identified beneficiary.

The Center for Community Extension Services was established in 2010. The center has been dealing with the community for four productive years since it was founded. It continuously extends its programs to different communities and institutions around the province of Zamboanga del Norte. Tangible programs such as literacy, seminars and trainings, health and sanitation development were among the services that aids communities to be empowered.

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VISION

In response to SVCI’s Vision and Mission, the Center for Community Extension Services and Linkages is committed to provide the college with a concrete community service program that integrates instruction and research through SVCI’s human and material resources as well as the resources of identified communities so as to bring about people empowerment for sustainable development in the target communities.

MISSION

As a Diocesan Catholic Institution guided by the values of St. Vincent Ferrer, the Center for Community Extension Services and Linkages aims to:

  • share SVCI’s research, instruction, personnel expertise and external resources in developing a sense of social awareness not just for its students but also to its external communities and other stake holders;
  • offers opportunities for the school personnel and students to integrate theoretical knowledge guided by love, truth, and freedom in addressing the needs of the undeserved and marginalized sectors of the community;
  • coordinates the community service programs of the various academic units as well as affiliate communities; and
  • commits to nurture in students a strong sense of volunteerism towards service to God, Country, and People especially to the least privileged.

GOALS

The SVCI Center for Community Extension aims at achieving people empowerment for sustainable development to its partner institutions and communities while enriching the social consciousness and responsibility of its students, faculty, and staff guided by the core values of SVCI: EXCELLENCE – (Sapientia), SERVICE – (Magis), CHARACTER FORMATION – (Spiritus)

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The extension priorities of SVCI is in line with its vision to sustain its operational mandate towards national integration and greater contribution to the national and international agenda. Furthermore, the Community Extension Services Division was created in order to address the needs of the marginalized and underprivileged sector of the community in accord by local, national, and international concerns such as, among other things, articulated respectively in barangay and municipality development plans, government development agencies’ thrusts and specific CHED guidelines, ASEAN University Network (AUN) Community Engagement guidelines, and UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.