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Maternal and child health is an important indicator of public health development. However, at Posyandu Cendana, Bekasi, the optimal utilization of services remains low. Challenges include limited community knowledge, particularly among mothers, regarding the importance of posyandu services, low awareness of routine check-ups, and insufficient understanding among cadres in delivering clear and accessible health information. To address these issues, this community service program is designed in the form of socialization activities with participatory and educational approaches. The program covers maternal and child health education, practical training on child growth monitoring, the importance of immunization, balanced nutrition, and reproductive health. The stages include problem identification with cadres and posyandu managers, implementation through interactive lectures, group discussions, and field practice, as well as evaluation using pre-tests, post-tests, and observations of community participation. The program involves lecturers, students, posyandu cadres, and local officials to ensure sustainability. The expected outcomes include improved maternal knowledge of posyandu roles and publication of results in mass media and scientific journals.

Stimulation of child growth and development is carried out by mothers, fathers, caregivers and other family members who are the closest people to the child. The purpose of this socialization activity is to determine the knowledge of mothers who have children about immunization and child growth and development. The activity was carried out at Puskesmas PB. Selayang II Medan with the team at the posyandu with preparations that have been made with the steps achieved. This activity is a socialization of Health Education to mothers by distributing leaflets and lectures as well as pre and post activities. The results of the pre-activity were found from 34 participants who had the highest score of 100 as many as 9 people and the lowest score of 10 as many as 1 person, and after the socialization was carried out, the results for the post of 34 mothers who had the lowest score of 80 as many as 6 people and the rest scored 100. So that the results of the difference before with a percentage of 71.7% and after 96.5% with the average value is 24.8. The conclusion of the activity that this activity is very useful for mothers to increase mothers knowledge about immunization and child growth and development so that this socialization is very useful for changing mothers to be able to understand about immunization and child growth and development so that early prevention of stunting can be done.

Sawangan Village, which is one of the villages in Kebasen District, Banyumas Regency, is one of the villages that focuses on reducing stunting rates. According to the interviews we conducted with Posyandu cadres, they experienced problems during the weighing and measuring process. So far, Posyandu cadres have had trouble in the process of weighing and measuring the height of toddlers, because the process is still using conventional tools. In the process of recording the growth and development of children under five is done by recording using a boloin in a book. Because the recording was done by hand, it was constrained by handwriting which was difficult to read. Based on these problems, Forum Group Discussion (FGD) activities were carried out, socialization and training on the use of digital scales, outreach and training on the use of the website-based “Smart Immunization Application” system and Android mobile. The number of participants in this activity was 17 people. Indicators of the success of the activities that have been carried out are coordination with partners, management of a team of lecturers as assistant partners, training on the use of digital scales, training and outreach systems. Based on the activities that have been carried out, it can be concluded that this activity is of interest to Posyandu cadres and parents of toddlers as evidenced by the enthusiasm of the participants. Obstacles faced are not all parents use smartphones, internet access, and constraints on parents' age.