Edukasi Pencegahan dan Penyalahgunaan Narkoba Bagi Anak dan Remaja di Desa Dumolodo dan Desa Ipilo Kecamatan Gentuma Raya

Abstract

In this modern and sophisticated era, drugs have become a problem for many people across the globe. Drugs can spoil our mind, harm our body and soul, and inevitably threaten the future of the community. The use of drug use not only happen to adults but also adolescents and children. Dumolodo and Ipilo are villages located between 12 (twelve) villages in the Gentuma Raya Sub-District. Like other villages, the population of Dumolodo and Ipilo villages is dominated by children and adolescents who are prone to drug abuse (narcotics, alcohol, psychotropics and other addictive substances). In addition, Gentuma Raya Sub-district is a Trans Sulawesi road, of course, it is an area that is prone for narcotics to be spread. The Desa Bersinar (Bersih Narkoba) Community Service Program aims to build cooperation and synergy with the North Gorontalo Government to empower the community in P4GN efforts (Prevention, Eradication, Abuse, and Illicit Trafficking of Drugs)  through the program of "Education on the Prevention of Drug Abuse for Children and Young Generation in Dumolodo and Ipilo Village, Gentuma Raya District, North Gorontalo Regency".  Desa Bersinar Program which was launched in 2020 and has socialized by the North Gorontalo Government, requires community participation. Several activities have been successfully carried out through Desa Bersinar (Bersih Narkoba) Community Service Program such as, Community socialization, forming the of volunteer and intelligence teams, workshops, technical Guidance and mapping the prone area. This program conducted in various social-religious setting which involve community and youth organization to create Desa Bersinar at Dumolodo and Ipilo Village in North Gorontalo Regency

Keywords  :  narkoba,  prevention, children and young generation