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Community Psychology
Community Processes
FIELD DIARY

INITIAL REGISTRATION FIELD DIARY

Observer Name - ID:

NAME SEMESTER ID

Study data

SUBJECT N1
NOMBRE Francy Vanessa Villamil
Age 30 years
Level of education Technology
What position do you hold in the community action board? President of the Community Action Board
Place of residence and stratification Tintal II - Stratum 3
Date - Time - Place of interview August 2019, 05:00 PM, Workplace
Background in the community

Regarding Mrs. Francy, she is well known in the neighborhood by the community having lived there for 28 years.
always playing an important role belonging to the communal action board aspiring to
position to position where currently by election serves as President who has been managing the
commented issue of the consumption and sale of hallucinogens and is addressing different
projects without support from the mayor's office or the police, grants us the remote interview for
Complete scheduling of Mrs. is given an explanation of the purpose of the study, accepts and shares with us.
your opinion.
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Interview Questions

1. WHAT IS YOUR NAME AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD?
2. What do you consider to be the most evident issue?
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD?

3. IN LIGHT OF THIS SITUATION, WHAT MEASURES HAVE THE INHABITANTS TAKEN?

TO MITIGATE THIS SITUATION?

4. DO YOU THINK THAT THE WORK LED BY THE ACTION BOARD
Is the community engagement with the community positive or negative, and why?

5. WHICH PLACES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ARE MOST AFFECTED BY THIS SITUATION

AND WHAT MORE VULNERABLE POPULATION?

6. DO YOU THINK THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAS PROBLEMS WITH

Is drug addiction and dealing more unsafe?
7. DO YOU KNOW IF IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THE COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD IS ADVANCING

ANY CONTINGENCY PROJECT ON THE SUBJECT, IF SO, WHAT?

WHAT DO YOU THINK SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT THIS?

8. HAS THERE BEEN EVIDENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF POLICE AUTHORITIES IN THE

PLACES CROWDED BY BOTH CONSUMERS AND

EXPENDITURES?
9. AS A NEIGHBOR OF THE AREA, WHAT COULD YOU CONTRIBUTE TO
IMPROVE THIS ISSUE POSITIVELY?

Open-ended questions are used to understand the opinion and perspective of the
community before what has been raised to address more broadly the
issue with the information obtained.
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We determinedly decided to pose these questions in order to encompass the

social issue experienced in this community, which members of it and

Neighborhood representatives expressed the information through the interview conducted.

necessary to provide us with important data and thus determine guidelines, appropriate strategies

in the management of the action plan as contingency measures or possible solution to the

problematic; Thus with the steps of the intervention community social y

Methodologically, a diagnosis, field insertion, and search are carried out.

of the needs and particularities of the community, context determination, evaluation

action plan strategies, actors, resources, and final feedback.

Collaboratively, it was concluded that the selected participants for the interview

they would be as follows:

Member of the communal action board

New mother in the neighborhood

3. Elderly person living for several years in the community

4. Adult from the neighborhood living several years in the community.

In this way, all points of view of the community members will be known.

from different backgrounds, staying in the neighborhood, in this way they will talk to us about the

different problems that arise.

The chosen neighborhood was Tintal, whose history dates back to the 2000s.

locality 8 Kennedy and known as a citadel surrounded by several complexes

residential, stratum 3 with several access roads, featuring several wetlands,

Library, Cai, Cade, shopping centers, public transportation services, parks for

the recreation of the family but with this problem has been evidenced in expedited,
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comercialización y consumo de drogas sin control, el incremento de la inseguridad, la

presence of jíbaros on the streets and the maximum consumers who do not respect time or

place, have caused the inhabitants to feel fear when going out into the streets.

So the current Tintal is very different and thus the community has been dividing.

leaving percentages of old inhabitants and new arrivals, dividing and heading towards

other places being battered by foreign migrants and young people who

They cloud the community with doubt, distrust, and danger.

Thus, we can indicate that the problem affecting the community is the main one.

complaint that it presents, since it is not possible to enjoy free spaces for it

recreation and entertainment

Below, we list the links to the interviews conducted in the community and in

where we can evidence each of the viewpoints and how this issue affects

su diario vivir en el barrio.

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In conclusion, what was evident was the great problem that the neighborhood has.

currently and despite the interventions and plans that the action board has had

community, the support of the neighborhood residents and the state has been nonexistent, which has made it

difficult to face such a situation and they have been handling it very superficially, but without

see big changes.

The intervention we propose to this problem at first is the

I move on to the planning of a program for the prevention of drug abuse, focused on
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an assessment of the type of drug problem within the community leading to a

determination of the level of risk factors that affect the problem. They can

use the results of this evaluation to increase knowledge of nature and

the seriousness of the problem in the community and guide the selection of the best programs

prevention to correct the problem.

On the other hand, it is proposed to create motivational talks and life project aimed at

most vulnerable population, where through the mayor's programs integration is achieved

community and support networks are created that help to end the problems that

today is presented. we also consider it very important that from the institutions

educational initiatives in the sector promote the training of the entire community and thus achieve

to empower and train a community that dreams of having more opportunities and a better

development for your sector

Taking into account the context, we will focus on some specific points for the

development of the work plan with the community:

● Identify: Specific drugs and other problems of children

adolescents in the community.

● Build: With the existing resources (e.g., the current programs for the

prevention of drug abuse.

● Develop: Short-term goals related to selection and

implementation of prevention programs and strategies based on

scientific.
● Project: Long-term goals so that plans and resources are

available for the future.

● Include: Continuous evaluations of the prevention program.
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● Promote: training and education focused on the life project of the

inhabitants of the neighborhood.

SUBJECT N2
NAME Jenny Cubides
Age 33 years
Educational level Chemical Engineering Student
Role within the community Resident of the Neighborhood

Place of residence and stratification Tintal stage II - stratum 2

Community hall location of the neighborhood

Date - Time - Interview location agosto 15 de 2019

Background of social work with the community

Mrs. Jenny has been living in the Tintal neighborhood for about 3 years now, as she bought a
apartment in the area, she is the mother of a 4-year-old girl, really her direct and visible contact
with the community are the weekends when she rests and it is where she has seen the most
problematic situation being experienced in the neighborhood, the drug addiction issue being managed in the
parks, the lack of presence of the authorities and the little participation of the action board
communal to mitigate this phenomenon, which day by day is affecting the community.

As she indicates, this situation is causing it to arise in other spaces.

important issues that need to be addressed because the affected residents are children and
young people who are easy to persuade.
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SUBJECT N3
NAME Mario Martínez Torres
Age 59 years
Level of education Primary basic
Role within the community Resident of the Neighborhood

Place of residence and stratification Tintal stage II - stratum 2

Community hall of the neighborhood

Date - Time - Interview location agosto 15 de 2019

Background of social work with the community

In the interview, Mr. Mario Martínez mentions that he has been living in the neighborhood for approximately
eight years ago in the Tintal neighborhood, as I previously lived in Tolima and for work-related reasons
He was located in this neighborhood, the interviewee really does not have a designated role within the board.
of community action, but nonetheless shows interest in the work that the board should perform
of communal action and for the well-being of the community in general.
Regarding the problems that the neighborhood is facing, he mentions that the situation has worsened.
drug consumption problems, this has also caused the occurrence of events of
insecurity within the neighborhood becoming more evident in parks, schools, and commerce,
Considering that this sector is characterized by its trade, Mr. Mario refers to the little
The presence of authorities like the police helps to make this issue permanent.
little participation of the community action board to mitigate this phenomenon, which day by day is
affecting the community.

To conclude, Mr. Mario mentions that efforts have been made to work together with the police, with the
to mitigate these situations that cause major problems that ultimately end
affecting the community in general. Moreover, it states that it is important to work more united.
creating strategies or support networks within the community.