Orientation on the Youth Formation Division and the Student Government Program

1. Dr. Juan R. Araojo Jr.
Chief Education Program Specialist
Youth Formation Division
Orientation on the Youth Formation Division
and the Student Government Program

2. Introduction on the Youth Formation
Division

3. ABOUT YFD
Bureau of Learner Support Services
School Health
Division (SHD)
School Sports
Division (SSD)
Youth Formation
Division (YFD)
DepEd Central Office

4. Youth Formation
Division (YFD)
Provides youth-serving units and organizations with
responsive, learner-centered, youth-oriented
policies, standards, guidelines, programs, and
projects to contribute to the holistic development of
learners who are values-driven, career-oriented,
culturally-rooted and socially responsible citizens.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

5. Youth Formation
Division (YFD)
GOAL
Empowered Filipino children and youth who are
responsible, hardworking, enterprising,
persevering, value-driven and culturally – rooted
equipped with world class skills and imbued with
values such as maka-Diyos, maka-Tao, maka-
Bansa, at maka-Kalikasan.

6. Policies,
Standards, and
Guidelines
Capacity Building
Knowledge
Management
Partnerships and
Linkages
KRAs | OUTCOMES
Research,
Monitoring, and
Evaluation
Schools will have a competent
and sustainable student
organizations and will have
effective school organization
management.
Youth-serving units and
organizations will have an
efficient and effective youth
formation program
management and evidence-
based interventions.

7. • Values Formation
Program for OSY
• Career Guidance Program (CGP)
• Skills Development Training for
OSY
• JENESYS
• Consultation with International
Orgs for Student Development
Program
• Partners’ Meeting on Student
Exchange Program
• Multi-sectoral meeting on Youth
Formation Programs
MAKA-DIYOS
MAKA-TAO
YFD PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, AND ACTIVITIES
• Student Government
Program (SGP)
• Youth Formation Field
Counterparts Orientation-
Workshop
• Special Program for the
Employment of Students
(SPES)
• Club Development Programs
• National Federation for SSG
and SPG
• Recognizing Outstanding
Club Orgs and Advisers
MAKABANSA
 National Ecosavers Program
 One Million Trees and Beyond
 National Native Trees
Conservation Project
 Clean and Green and Eco-
friendly Palarong Pambansa
MAKAKALIKASAN

8. YFD Accomplishments

9. Training Needs Assessment on DepEd
Student Government Program
(September 26, 2016)
Orientation-Workshop of Youth
Formation Coordinators in the
Division and Regional Level
(October 10-11, 2016)

10. Japan East-Asia Network of
Exchange for Students and
Youths (JENESYS) 2016 Program
(October 27-November 8, 2016)

11. Career Guidance Program for
Grade 11 Writeshop
(December 5-9, 2016)
Career Guidance Program for
Grade 11 Validation
(December 13-15, 2016)

12. The Student Government Program

13. THE DEPED STUDENT GOVERNMENT PROGRAM (SGP)
The Student Government Program focuses on
enhancing task-related leadership competencies,
attitudes, skills and knowledge of public school student
leaders, teacher-advisers, and other key players by
exposing them to best practices of leaders, innovators,
and organizations from various fields through creative
education, interactive plenary and break-out sessions,
ideation and design innovations.

14. Understand the operations within the
Student Government and among other
student organizations including
formulation of programs, management,
monitoring, and evaluation.
Provide a deeper understanding of issues or
concepts that revolve around the student
leaders’ school and community through a
national and youth situationer and generate
concrete plans on how to synergize ideas for
future collaboration.
Provide a venue for collaborative
and integrative projects, ideation,
formulation and critique of the
dynamic, feasible, doable, and
concrete general plan of activities
and social innovations for
implementation in the schools.
Establish a pool and a bonded
community of public school student
leaders and advisers that continuously
performs the duty to excel, to lead and to
serve with or without titles or positions.
increase engagement of teacher-
advisers and student leaders in
school governance and community
development and as an effective
partner in creating a child friendly,
gender-sensitive, safe and
motivating environment for the
studentry.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF SGP

15. THE DEPED STUDENT GOVERNMENT PROGRAM (SGP)
Student Leaders Development
Program
Teacher-Advisers, School
Heads, and Youth Formation
Coordinator Training Program

16. RESULTS OF THE TRAINING NEEDS ASSESSMENT (TNA)

17. TNA OF TEACHER-ADVISERS
CHALLENGES SKILLS NEEDED TO ADDRESS THE
CHALLENGES
• Overload of work • Time Management and Stress
Management Skills
• Arising conflict between teacher-
advisers and subject area teachers
and school heads
• Low participation of students to
programs, projects, and activities of
school organizations
• Scarcity of new ideas and knowledge
on trends
• Lack of
recognition/awards/incentives for
teacher-advisers
• Conflict Management Skills
• Persuasion Skills/Interpersonal
Skills
• Creative thinking skills
• Reflective teaching skills/mentoring
and coaching skills

18. YFD CONTACT DETAILS
blss.yfd@deped.gov.ph
Rm 307, Youth Formation
Division, 3rd Flr. Mabini Bldg.
DepEd Complex, Meralco Ave.,
Pasig City
(02) 637-9814