Service Partners Research Articles

The Living Well, Living Longer program: an integrated care strategy to improve the health of people living with severe mental illness.

Living Well, Living Longer (The Program) is an integrated care strategy to improve the physical health of people living with severe mental illness within a public mental health service. The significant life expectancy gap experienced by this cohort is largely attributed to higher rates of cardiovascular disease and modifiable risk factors. The Program addresses this by guiding people through the four stages of screening, detection, treatment initiation, and ongoing management of coexisting chronic health conditions. The Program adopted an integrated care approach to ensure the provision of appropriate and coordinated care across hospital and primary care services. Key care pathways include a cardiometabolic health assessment clinic, shared care with general practitioners, oral health services partnership and employment of peer support workers, dietitians, exercise physiologists, and smoking cessation to provide targeted community support and interventions. There has been strong engagement with the care pathways introduced since The Program's inception in 2013 and evaluation is currently underway to consider the impact on cardiometabolic health outcomes for participants. Critical to The Program's effectiveness has been engagement with lived experience expertise, multidisciplinary collaboration, and strong executive support. However, significant challenges persist amid an Australian public health crisis characterised by reducing rates of free primary healthcare access for people living with severe mental illness and enduring communication challenges between primary and secondary health services. With the implementation of MyMedicare and the imminent Single Digital Patient Record across NSW Health, we stand at a critical juncture. It is imperative to establish robust systems to enhance care for this vulnerable population.

Enhancing the capabilities of medical surgical nurses at PKU Muhammadiyah Gamping Hospital

PKU Muhammadiyah Gamping Hospital has a few medical surgical nurses who are on duty in several different unit. Almost 90% of CPD activities that medical surgical nurses participate in are not in accordance with their authority and competence. Nurse competence must be an important point because if nurses are incompetent, it can result in patients becoming dissatisfied, patient trust in nurses decreases, and even patient injuries and deaths. The description above makes the service team collaborate with service partners to solve existing problems together so that unwanted side effects do not arise. The main problem is that the training that medical surgical nurses participate in is not in accordance with their level of competence and authority. The identified issues can be resolved by implementing new training methods designed to introduce online training systems by enhancing self-learning and adult learning approaches. The results of the community service activities led to the following conclusion: the trial training using INNA-CPD was implemented per the plan. (b) The implementation demonstrates that the majority of nurses are capable of achieving values that exceed the average. (c) Additional support is required to conduct the training, which will involve modifications to the INNA-CPD system.

Development of A Mini Autoclave for Bubur Ceria MPASI Products as an Alternative to Prevent Growth Retardation

Background: Food hygiene and sanitation principles are a form of effort to prevent human disease. This service partner is "Healthy and Cheerful Baby Porridge," which has contributed a lot to preventing stunting as MPASI. The aim of this Community Empowerment (PMP) service is to innovate porridge packaging from plastic cups to autoclavable pouches so that the porridge is more durable and long-lasting and to apply mini autoclave-based technology when the porridge is packaged to make it more hygienic and sterile against pathogens. Method: Implementation of the PMP begins with an initial survey and partner cooperation agreement with the cooperation partners using the Focus group discussion (FGD) method. Socialization of materials and training at the Auditorium and Microbiology Laboratory at Al-Irsyad University, Cilacap. Evaluation of the implementation and sustainability of PMP activities. Results: Material dissemination and training on packaging cheerful porridge using autoclavable pouch technology was carried out. As many as 30% agreed, and 70% chose to strongly agree regarding the assessment of the new packaging and leaflet for cheerful porridge. Conclusion: Packaging the porridge with an autoclavable pouch makes the porridge more hygienic, sterile, and long-lasting.

Peningkatan Kewaspadaan Masyarakat Kelurahan Jaticempaka, Bekasi Terhadap Banjir dengan Alat Pendeteksi Banjir

Floods occur due to rainfall that is high enough so that the water level rises above normal limits and overflows into residential areas. Floods can occur regardless of time, so there is a need to increase public awareness of floods. In the environment around the Krisnadwipayana University, namely, Jaticempaka Village, Bekasi, which is one of the public service partners, floods often occur due to the overflow of the Sunter River. Based on surveys and monitoring, the lack of public awareness of Jaticempaka Village, Bekasi, regarding flood disasters due to the lack of a system or device that can detect the high water level in the Sunter River, which causes flooding. Therefore, lecturers and students of the Electrical Engineering Study Program, Faculty of Engineering, Krisnadwipayana University were inspired to participate with carrying out public service, namely by making and installing a flood detection device that can detect water level levels at the Sunter River using an Atmega 8535 microcontroller and an ESP8266 MCU node. It is hoped that by installing the flood detection device, the public of Jaticempaka Village, Bekasi, can obtain information about the water level of the Sunter River, so that can increase public awareness of flood disasters.

PENGELOLAAN SAMPAH DARI LINGKUNGAN TERKECIL DI KELURAHAN KASTURIAN KOTA TERNATE

The focus of this community service activity is to make various kinds of creativity from managing plastic waste at home specifically for the community, especially the women of Kasturian Village in Ternate City, North Maluku. This community service activity was carried out for one day, on the 13 of February 2023. The results of initial observations on this service partner found that there was still a lot of plastic waste donated by residents of the Kasturian sub-district in every existing trash can. Therefore, the service team provides counseling and at the same time practices managing waste from the smallest environment by making various kinds of creativity. The results obtained after this service are increasing the enthusiasm of the community to manage plastic waste into various kinds of creativity.Keywords: Plastic waste; Smallest Environment

Empowerment of Women Farmers Groups (KWT) in Efforts to Utilize Medicinal Plants (Biofarmaka) in Randusongo, Turi

Abstract. Drugs are substances that can be used to cure disease. Synthetic drugs in the process of work usually cause unwanted side effects. Therefore, people usually switch to medicinal plants. Medicinal plants are alternatives to plants that are cultivated in the yard of the house and are used as a source of family medicine. The farmer women's group in Randusongo, Donokerto, Turi has already used their yard but has not yet been directed towards cultivating medicinal plants specifically. This is becoming the initial plan to empower farmer women's groups in the cultivation of medicinal plants. The purpose of this service is to increase the empowerment of women farmers in utilizing agricultural land through the cultivation of medicinal plants. The program implementation method was preceded by environmental observation, then the program implementation uses lecture/discussion methods, training, demonstrations, and cultivation assistance. Evaluation was carried out at the beginning and end of the activity through the Pre-Test and Post-test. The results of the service activities show that the service partners begin to understand the use of several family medicinal plants. Based on data from 13 KWT administrators, it is shown that there was an increase in the average pre-test and post-test scores from 46.2 to 85.4. Service partners have also begun to use medicinal plants such as emprit ginger, white turmeric, and black kencur. In the future, these three plants will become the main priority to be developed in the area.

Workshop Merancang Pembelajaran dan Asesmen dalam Implementasi Kurikulum Merdeka bagi Guru SMK Kabupaten Wonosobo

The objectives of community service that have been implemented by the English Language Education Master's Study Program service team include: (1) Sharing knowledge about designing English language learning for Phase E & F (SMK) based on the Curriculum Merdeka; (2) Sharing knowledge about appropriate methods, media and materials to be used in learning English based on the Curriculum Merdeka; (3) Sharing knowledge about assessments in accordance with the Merdeka Curriculum English Phase E & F Learning Outcomes; (4) Reviewing teaching modules for learning English for Phase E & F (SMK) based on the Merdeka Curriculum. The service partners are vocational English teachers in the Wonosobo Regency MGMP group which will be held at SMK 2 Wonosobo. Service activities were held in face-to-face meetings and attended by 42 English teachers. This activity was carried out with maximum results with good cooperation between the Community Service Team, the Institute for Research and Community Service (LPPM) Muhammadiyah University Purworejo and all English teachers in the Wonosobo Regency Vocational School English Language MGMP group. Keywords: Asesment, learning design , Merdeka Curriculum, workshop

Healthy@Home, An Integrated Health and Social Care Program for a Marginalized Population Group in Toronto, Canada

Introduction: Integrated health and social care (IHSC) can support improved health and social care outcomes for highly vulnerable and marginalized population groups. Toronto has one of the most diverse populations in the world. Immigrants account for 46% of the city's population. Russian-speaking Jewish older adults are a population group who are at significant risk of isolation and poor access to health and social services. In response an adult day program, Healthy@Home (H@H) was established through multi-organizational partnership among community-based health and social care outcomes led by social services agencies has spread to 20 sites across Canada.
 Methodology: a qualitative study of H@H was undertaken to explore the factors that support successful integrated services delivery for this high-risk population group. Key informant interviews and focus groups were completed involving eight health and social care agencies to explore the factors that support successful IHSC. 
 Results: The qualitative study identified eleven critical factors that support IHSC among many health and social care agencies. They include strong communications, shared vision and goals, team-based care, dedicated resources, inter-organizational culture, and pre-existing relationships were overwhelmingly regarded as being key to the success of H@H partnerships. Leadership and accountability agreements were also regarded as being important factors. The H@H case also identified pre-existing relationships, role clarity and champions that contributed towards its integration success. The H@H case offers up some unique insights into how context can have an important role in influencing IHSC and that may be unique to services provision in Toronto. Ten contextual factors were identified as having exerted an influence on services partnership. They include aging population, immigration population, transportation, differences in the healthcare and social care sectors, accountability agreements with governing authorities and funders, public funding, governance authorities, sense of community among the providers, public policies and being part of the not-for-profit sector.
 Lessons Learned: The H@H study has shown that IHSC can occur voluntarily and at the grass-roots level. It also provides insights into how IHSC can be initiated and driven by social services agencies who are united by a shared vision and goal, and a strong sense of community. Despite limited funding and external resources, these organizational partners have been able to engage in IHSC for more than a decade in order to respond to a significant unmet need for a population group that was being ignored and marginalized due to their socio-economic status, their immigration status, and language barriers by existing health and welfare systems. Their isolation from mainstream society put them at significant risk of falling through the Canadian welfare system cracks. These community-based agencies, with close ties to their neighbourhoods were able to engage, respond, coordinate, and integrate flexibly. Contextual factors including a supportive policy environment that was aimed at supporting ageing in place, seniors care, poverty reduction and immigrants and a vibrant community of culturally competent providers has made H@H a success.

Development Vegetables Organic in Agriculture Urban

Agriculture agriculture urban with method agriculture organic is A form solution just done _ For face many intervention ingredients synthetic in the world of agriculture. Cultivation vegetables organic on land yard is a worthy alternative considered Because can sufficient need healthy and hygienic food for family, save expenditure consumption food at a time guard sustainability environment. As for goals from activity devotion to public This namely, to : increase KT Tambakrejo knowledge in cultivation friendly organic vegetables environment, and improve KT Tambakrejo knowledge in making organic fertilizers and pesticides with good and right. Activity devotion to community carried out by KT Tambakrejo, Village Tambakrejo Semarang, at l a kuk a n with a number of method approach which is conducted based group, comprehensive and based local potential. Enhancement knowledge partner done through observation field work, interviews, training, mentoring and evaluation activity. From activities dedication that has been done, obtained results increase knowledge partner in technology raised bed as method repairer suitable soil implemented in the region urban with condition land in general arid, increasing knowledge partner in cultivation vegetables organically and friendly environment. Service partners have also get good and correct knowledge in making organic fertilizers and pesticides, with utilise potency source power existing in the environment surroundings.

The Alfred Health Covid Community Pathway (AHCCP): development of a multidisciplinary, collaborative, and integrated model of care for supporting covid positive patients in the community during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Background: The second wave of Covid-19 in Victoria in July 2020 revealed health system vulnerabilities including access to primary care and community readiness to provide care in the home to large numbers of Covid-19 positive patients. The health system risked being overwhelmed, and patients risked deteriorating at home with unmet clinical and psychosocial needs. The requirement for isolation of positive cases necessitated a rapid switch to remote and virtual models of care. In response to a successful pilot in Northwest Melbourne [1], the Department of Health (DH) implemented the Covid Positive Pathways program, which directed health services to provide a similar service in their local catchment areas.
 Purpose of this report: To describe the design, implementation and evolution of the AHCCP, including challenges, lessons learnt and opportunities for use of such an integrated model of care in future epidemic/pandemic situations, as well as to support broader health and social care needs beyond covid.
 Methods: This descriptive study describes the model of care developments and changes, and commentary with descriptive statistics from the cohort of patients who were referred to the pathway, and key learning points.
 Service aim, stakeholders and implementation: In September 2020, the AHCCP was established with the aim of providing comprehensive care to patients in isolation with Covid-19. The service was established as a partnership between several stakeholders, including:
 
 Alfred Health, a quaternary hospital in south-east Melbourne.
 Connect Health and Star Health, community health orgsanisations.
 South East Melbourne Primary Health Network.
 Victorian DH, and the South East Melbourne Public Health Unit.
 South East Melbourne Health Service Partnership, Monash Health and Peninsula Health.
 
 Patients referred from the Victoria DH were triaged and risk-stratified. Clinical monitoring was provided by the health service (medium pathway) or community health team in partnership with GPs (low pathway), with clear escalation pathways for management of acute deterioration. Support for psychosocial needs was also provided, including for those unable to safely meet isolation requirements.
 Results: 91 patients were referred in the first nine months of the pathway’s operation, however subsequent surges in cases have resulted in 172,306 referrals as of 31st August 2022. Rapid upscaling, changing public health directives, and the availability of vaccination and treatments led to major challenges and need for constant redesign. Significant developments included: the introduction of web-based symptom surveys, risk stratification modifications incorporating vaccinations and variants of concern, streaming lower-risk patients to usual care outside the pathway, and use of logistics services to aid distribution of monitoring equipment and medications. Significant opportunities for hospital avoidance were observed, along with minimal adverse outcomes and a high level of acceptability for patients and carers as well as staff.
 Learnings: Collaboration across the partner organisations, including daily huddles with a non-hierarchical structure, was key to the success of the program. Virtual care, including use of information systems (Covid Monitor platform) emerged as essential to scalability. The pathway was successfully decentralised and integrated within community health and Alfred Health’s core models of care in September 2022 to ensure sustainability.

Building with Butterflies: The Role of Design and Art in Co-creating New Identities for Services

The workshop will build upon and explore the design approach that was developed through a collaboration between Trindlemoss Day Opportunities for people with learning disabilities and two interns from the Glasgow School of Art (GSA). It will involve the interns and the service delivery team sharing their process and learnings and demonstrating some of the key engagement methods from their work, and encourage reflection on the role of art and design in reshaping services.
 In North Ayrshire, our learning disability day services underwent a situational change, involving a merging of 2 separate building-based services within a new site. Along with this physical change, we recognised a need for a change in practice and ethos, moving away from a rigid, building based, model of provision, to a much more community oriented/distributed model, integrated with a variety of service and third sector partners. For individuals and staff who had been accessing and working within the services for a long time, this presented a profound shift in thinking and practice. 
 Engaging customers, their families, and staff in an ongoing conversation about this process was critical but we tended to default to traditional methods of doing this. Working with interns from GSA provided an opportunity to take a creative, design led co-creation approach to engage with customers and staff. The brief was to deliver artefacts which captured the journey so far and hopes for the future, in a form shaped by the conversations they had, and thereby create a foundation for change. Recognising the need for flexibility to support engagement with customers with a wide range of abilities and communication preferences, the interns developed a variety of approaches including gamifying conversations through the use of physical board games. These are approaches which are best experienced, rather than described.
 The work led to a variety of outputs, including a visual identity for the centre to be used in branding; on-site art installations which reflected themes of growth and empowerment; and value and vision statements which underpin all aspects of the work, and which will be core to the identity of the service going forward.
 As a hands-on exploration of design-led approaches to co-creation, the workshop will have relevance for anyone seeking to engage service users from marginalised (and other) communities in ways that amplify their voice in an authentic and joyful manner. The theme of integration will be central to the workshop: pursuing integration with new collaborators; integrating customers and staff in shared conversations; integrating notions of external community identity, reversing the frequently inward facing service discussions; and integrating the personal and collective resources of individuals within creative activity.
 Workshop structure:
 Presentation: Introduction to Trindlemoss Day Opportunities: our change journey – 5 minutes
 Presentation: The work of the GSA interns: new perspectives, new tools – 15 minutes
 Activity: Using design based tools – small group activity for workshop participants – 20/30 minutes
 Open discussion: Design based thinking and practice as a lever for equity and integration – 15 minutes
 Summary and close – 5 minutes

A novel partnership for proactive person-centred anticipatory care in North Lanarkshire

Anticipatory Care is a shift from reactive, fragmented, episodic care to proactive, personalised and coordinated team based care that starts with what matters to the individual and takes an enablement and strength based approach. However in a post Covid-19 landscape many primary care teams are challenged to deliver proactive care for the growing number of people with frailty who will benefit from the approach. 
 A novel collaborative approach was co-designed with primary care teams, patients and carers in one locality. Information from GP records and the electronic Frailty Index was used to identify individuals with escalating levels of frailty. In addition, professionals could identify individuals opportunistically. Prior to the pandemic, Health Visitors gathered information and performed clinical assessments at home and discussed issues such as Power of Attorney and Anticipatory Care Planning (ACP). The workforce disruption from the pandemic was a catalyst to test new workforce roles. The locality engaged an advocacy service partner to increase capacity for authentic person centred multi disciplinary team (MDT) care for older people with frailty. Other core members of the MDT are GP, geriatrician and pharmacist with support as required from allied health professionals, social care, dietician, community mental health team and third sector.
 The approach is goal--orientated ensuring the patient, their wishes and their family or carer remain the primary focus (Steele Gray et al, 2020). The advocacy worker supports the patient through a self assessment process before representing the patient within the MDT discussion, ensuring independent advocacy and support at each stage of the process and enabling the MDT to formulate interventions that are in keeping with the patient’s wishes and priorities for their health. Interventions range from polypharmacy reviews to care packages, referrals to other professionals and to social prescribing supports. Following the MDT the patient receives a phone call from the advocacy worker, outlining the proposed interventions and ensuring they are empowered to express their opinion and wishes. Thus the patient remains in control and the team avoids a paternalistic therapeutic approach (Dumez and Pomey, 2019).
 Between October 2019 and December 2021, 106 patients were discussed by the MDT. Median age was 78 (range 58 – 101) years, 58% were female and 73% were identified using routine GP data. Seventy had a home assessment and multifactorial interventions, the remainder had an ACP to share their wishes about future care. 
 
 An enabler was the use of Microsoft Teams platform. Conducting MDT’s virtually allows seamless information sharing in real time for accurate and informed care planning despite health, social care and the third sector operating separate electronic systems.
 The advocacy service is now seen as a key partner in the MDT. Working in a transdisciplinary manner helped overcome service pressures. Extending roles outwith normal professional boundaries and across sectors creates capacity for managing frailty, ensures safe, effective and person centred care and enables relational practice and reciprocal learning (Batorowicz and Shepherd, 2008). The novel collaborative approach is now being rolled out across other localities.
 
 
 
 

Production of Ethnographic-Short Films on Karo Traditional Arts as Promotion and Dissemination of Local Wisdom Knowledge in Lingga Village, Simpang Empat District, Karo Regency

This Community Partnership Service Program aims to encourage a marketing strategy for Lingga village tourism through digital channels. Lingga Village has traditional Karo art activities which are still maintained today. The Nggara Simbelin Studio is an art studio that still maintains this traditional heritage. This activity aims to disseminate knowledge and practice of traditional Karo arts to the younger generation. The specific target of this activity is to strengthen the promotion of Lingga tourism village along with its traditional wealth in order to foreign and domestic tourists will again be attracted by comers from local or foreigners. This activity also documents the Karo traditional art of Lingga village so that it is easily accessible to the younger generation, especially in Lingga village, thereby assisting the process of inheriting local wisdom for long-term regeneration. The use of method in this activity is audio-visual ethnography, namely documentation with an ethnographic approach. This method will involve partners in the process of making ethnographic short films. From this experience of involvement, partners will understand more about the packaging process for traditional arts that they have as part of their promotion and dissemination strategy in the digital technology era. In the future, the existence of this ethnographic short film will help the people of Lingga village in terms of documenting one of the objects for promoting culture. In addition, this film will also be an additional learning tool for the process of dissemination and inheritance of the wealth of traditional Karo arts.

Peningkatan Branding Produk Melalui Pelatihan Digital Marketing untuk Pengembangan Bisnis pada Pelaku UMKM Kota Lhokseumawe

This community service activity aims to provide knowledge to MSMEs who already have businesses but have not been able to develop their businesses optimally. To overcome this problem in this community service program through digital marketing training. The targets of this community service activity are MSMEs in Lhokseumawe City. This service method is socialization, training, and application of digital marketing which includes: (1) training on the importance of product branding, and how to create product branding. (2) Explanation of how to create branding for products (3) practice of procedures for implementing digital marketing in business development. This community service partnership activity is carried out face to face and because of implementing this activity it is hoped that MSMEs in the city of Lhokseumawe can understand the importance of product branding for business development and the application and benefits of digital marketing for businesses that are being or will be run in any field, be it culinary, fashion or services.

Edukasi Pasar Modal Bagi Siswa SMK PGRI 2 Kertosono

Investment is investing money into an asset to generate profits. Therefore, it is important to start investing early by educating the younger generation about the capital market so that the future is more secure because they have passive income. Capital market education is an effort to provide knowledge about investing in the capital market. The partner in this community service is SMK PGRI 2 Kertosono, Nganjuk Regency. The activity aims to introduce younger students to investing in the capital market. So they can improve their knowledge and investment skills at an early age for future profits. The activities carried out to achieve this goal are socialization methods, active participation of participants, and direct activity assistance by the service team. After the service activity ends, it is hoped that participants will be able to understand the procedures for trading shares in the capital market and how to analyze and know the risks of investing in shares.

Pelatihan dan Pendampingan Komunitas Kesusteran ALMA, Bandung, untuk Memanfaatkan Limbah Minyak Rumah Tangga sebagai Bahan Baku Pembuatan Lilin

Used cooking oil or commonly called used minyak jelantah is classified as waste that can pollute the environment. For this reason, this waste cannot be disposed directly into the environment. One way to process this waste is to recycle it, or to make other products that are more useful and valuable, such as candles from used cooking oil. This community service activity consist of, socialization, training and assistance for making candles from used cooking oil for the ALMA Sisters community: Bhakti Luhur Orphanage, Bandung. This activity was successful according to plan and the most important thing is that through this activity, there was success which had a positive impact on service partners. This activity is considered useful and provides new knowledge for partners. Moreover, with the help of tools and materials for producing candles from used cooking oil provided, the partners were able to produce a thousand candles which were ready to be marketed. This service activity will not stop with training and mentoring activities only. In the future, the service team will continue to train and assist partners, especially in terms of marketing, packaging and production of other products using used cooking oil as raw material.

Penerapan Teknologi irigasi Tetes Pada Agrowista Anggur

Keranggan Village has a large area of land for agrotourism development, with the main attraction as an Ecotourism Village. Pokdarwis members, as partners in community service, have joined the South Tangerang Grape Community. They highlight grapes as the village's leading commodity to support its Ecotourism Village title. However, several aspects of the problems faced by Pokdarwis are aspects of agrotourism plant cultivation techniques and aspects of human resource management in applying agrotourism plant cultivation technology. The service aims to introduce grape cultivation technology and increase knowledge of grape cultivation techniques using drip irrigation techniques. Several solutions are offered to partners: (1) pioneering grape cultivation by the community, which can be used as a fruit-picking attraction; (2) applying digital drip irrigation techniques as irrigation support to support grape plant productivity; and (3) providing training and assistance to the community so that they have the skills to implement grape cultivation and apply drip irrigation technology. The results and implications of this program are that the people of Keranggan village can apply suitable technology that makes it easier to grow grapes and makes Keranggan village a pioneer of grape agrotourism in South Tangerang.

Sosialisasi Dan Pelatihan Penyusunan Pembukuan Sederhana Menggunakan Aplikasi Bukuwarung Pada UMKM Menengah

This Community Service activity aims to provide training in preparing simple bookkeeping for Mengehah Micro Small Enterprises (MSMEs) at Bringharjo Market. This service partner involves 5 MSME players who have businesses on the left side of the Beingharjo market. The activities will be carried out on 18 September, 7, 15 October and 28 October 2023. Activities are carried out by visiting MSME partners one by one. The results of this service show that there are still many MSME players who do not know how to prepare simple bookkeeping. Therefore, the service provides assistance in preparing simple bookkeeping to make it easier to record financial reports and for the sustainability of the business of MSMEs at Bringharjo Market.

PELATIHAN PEMBUATAN BONEKA JARI SEBAGAI MEDIA AJAR BAGI GURU TK KECAMATAN SERIRIT

Formal education for children begins at an early age, 4 years old the early childhood education programs. Learning in Kindergarten is carried out using the principle of play because playing for children is a very enjoyable activity and is always carried out every day. Daily learning activities in Kindergarten to develop children's intelligence abilities are adapted to the learning principles and values developed in the prepared curriculum. The learning process in kindergarten schools uses facilities and infrastructure that support the achievement of educational goals. One of them is using learning media that is interesting to children. However, teachers have difficulty providing teaching media such as storytelling media as learning facilities, which is one of the obstacles faced by kindergarten teachers in Seririt District. This is caused by financial factors, lack of ideas, skills, and other equipment. Learning media does not have to be in the form of sophisticated digital technology, therefore researchers provide a training program for making finger puppets as a teaching medium to kindergarten teachers in the Seririt sub-district as service partners with the aim of helping teachers develop teaching media that can be used in the classroom. The implementation of this service lasted for three months. Methods for implementing this activity include drafting training guidelines, providing training on making finger puppets as a learning medium, and practicing direct teaching using the media that has been created. The results obtained during the implementation of this community service, namely through training in making finger puppets as a teaching medium, are able to increase the creativity of teachers in creating shapes and characters from the media they make and also develop an entrepreneurial spirit because the materials used can be found around us, thus making children become more enthusiastic in the learning process, and the class atmosphere becomes more enjoyable.

Pelatihan Penyusunan Proposal Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK) sebagai Upaya Mengembangkan Kompetensi Guru di MTsN 15 Jombang

This service partner is a teacher at MTsN 15 Jombang. Teachers are required to develop teacher professionalism. One way is to carry out Classroom Action Research (CAR) which aims to improve the quality of learning in the classroom and can be used to fulfill the requirements for submitting promotions in continuous professional development. However, the problems faced by partners are: partners do not really understand about CAR, how to prepare CAR proposals, and implement them. Therefore, the service team carried out training on preparing CAR proposals for teachers at MTsN 15 Jombang. The implementation method through several stages. The preparation stage includes; initial observation, carrying out licensing, coordinating with partners, and compiling training materials. The implementation phase, explaining in theory about CAR each participant experienced an increase in score from pretest to posttest, (2) at least 80% of participants received a minimum score of 80. The result of the activity was that 11 teachers of MTsN 15 Jombang participated in the training. This training begins with a pretest, then provides training, and ends with a posttest. The training was held on May 8, 2023. During the training, the volunteer explained about CAR in theory, namely related to the definitions, characteristics, objectives, CAR procedures, and the systematics of preparing CAR proposals. The training was held from 8 to 20 May 2023 namely; giving pretests, providing training materials, giving posttests, and practicing making proposals. The presentation of the material was carried out on May 8 2023, while the assistance in preparing PTK proposals was carried out from May 9 to 20 2023. The pretest and posttest results showed that the average PTK training participant's pretest score was 34.1, while the average pretest score of CAR training participants was 94.5. Based on data from the pretest and posttest results, each participant experienced an increase in score from pretest to posttest and 100% of participants received a minimum score of 80, (3) at least 50% of the participants are in the process of compiling a proposal.