Community as the answer to the prevention of sexual abuse against children? Serial Intervention Program
Indri Utami Sumaryanti, Rizka Hadian Permana, Vici Sofianna Putra

Universitas Islam Bandung

Abstract

Bandung Regency is a region with a high population rate. The increasing amount of the population isn^t aligned with the rate of health facilities, including mental health services. CSA (Child Sexual Abuse) is one of the biggest problems that has to be dealt with in the Bandung Regency. The total case of CSA in Bandung Regency is 203 cases, with children and early adolescents as the victims. One of the villages in Bandung Regency has the highest rate of CSA reports and there are many illegal marriages. The authors found some initial findings- Early adolescents^ lack of knowledge about reproduction health and function and proneness of being persuaded by people they know from social media. Child sexual abuse has to be resolved socially or through communities. Social intervention has to be able to reach crucial aspects in communities so that social problems can be resolved. Thus, we suggest the urgency in the bigger scope of intervention, which is the community intervention approach. The solutions that we offer are a series of intervention programs using the ecological theory of development framework. Following the social intervention principle and ecological framework, we were trained the village residents, involving the entire schools in the village, created community agents. The activities that aimed to build knowledge and skill of the agents of change by using an experiential learning approach using module as learning media. Our goals aimed to achieve were increasing knowledge, awareness, and skill regarding child sexual abuse prevention. The training was conducted towards 26 participants. This research found several results. First, we found that 6 participants had an adequate understanding of training material, 18 participants categorized as having a good understanding, and 2 participants categorized as having a very good understanding. Second, all participants had a positive attitude towards the training module. Third, all participants perceived that the module

Keywords: Child sexual abuse, Health, Community empowerment, Experiential learning

Topic: Innovative Education in the Digitali Era