Student Catholic Action

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Student Catholic Action" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Student Catholic Action of the Philippines (SCAP)

Abbreviation	SCAP
Formation	April 12, 1936
Type	Catholic Youth Organization
Affiliations	International Young Catholic Students (IYCS)
Website	https://www.scaphilippines.org/

The Student Catholic Action is a religious student organization in the Philippines. Its affiliation overseas is the International Young Catholic Students (IYCS), also known as International Young Christian Students in Asia, that follows the methodology of Cardinal Joseph Cardijn, the see-judge-act methodology. Known to be the first student religious organization in the Philippines and presently known all over the Philippines through local dioceses and catholic schools (public and private high schools).

It defines itself as an organized group of students striving to become a community of disciples of Jesus Christ by being evangelized and evangelizing. The cell, a small group of students, is the basic unit of the movement, and is essential to it.

Every three years, the leaders meet in a National Conference, the highest decision-making body of the movement. The Conference elects a National Coordinating Council (NCC), comprising a Cluster Coordinator together with a College Representative and a High School Representative, for a three-year term. The NCC meets twice a year. The National Secretariat comprising the executive director, Executive Secretary and the Liaison Officers for each region (Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao) run programs with the help of the National Formation Team.

As of 2014^[update] there were about 300 universities, colleges and secondary schools affiliated with the Student Catholic Action.