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This community service program aims to improve adolescents’ financial literacy through an educational initiative entitled “Smart Teens: Managing Money Without Drama”, conducted for the youth of Vihara Dhamma Bhakti Tangerang. The program is motivated by the relatively low level of financial literacy among adolescents, which may lead to consumptive behavior and a lack of personal financial management skills from an early age. The methods employed include interactive lectures, financial management simulations, and group discussions covering basic financial planning, saving habits, and expense control. The results indicate an improvement in participants’ understanding of fundamental financial concepts, such as managing allowances, the importance of saving, and the ability to distinguish between needs and wants. Furthermore, participants demonstrated more responsible attitudes in making financial decisions. This program is expected to serve as an effective community-based financial literacy education model in fostering healthy financial behavior among adolescents.

This community service program aims to improve adolescents’ financial literacy through an educational initiative entitled “Smart Teens: Managing Money Without Drama”, conducted for the youth of Vihara Dhamma Bhakti Tangerang. The program is motivated by the relatively low level of financial literacy among adolescents, which may lead to consumptive behavior and a lack of personal financial management skills from an early age. The methods employed include interactive lectures, financial management simulations, and group discussions covering basic financial planning, saving habits, and expense control. The results indicate an improvement in participants’ understanding of fundamental financial concepts, such as managing allowances, the importance of saving, and the ability to distinguish between needs and wants. Furthermore, participants demonstrated more responsible attitudes in making financial decisions. This program is expected to serve as an effective community-based financial literacy education model in fostering healthy financial behavior among adolescents.

Through Training on Making Snack Bouquet as an Alternative Business Idea, this activity seeks to teach one of the alternative business ideas that may be done by everyone from various backgrounds. The general public's ignorance of flower bouquets makes it challenging for business players to identify their target market, as teens continue to use food bouquets as presents for specific individuals. In order for the participants in this training to use the snack bouquet business as a reference business idea in the future, it seeks to provide information about the making process and the materials required to establish one. Both theoretical and practical methods are employed in this training.

This research is motivated by the rapid development of technology in the current era of digitalization, one of which is a gadget that is very common in use in Krandegan Village, Gandusari District, Trenggalek Regency, especially by teenagers who almost always carry their gadgets anywhere. The objectives of this study are 1) Knowing how the social behavior of teenagers due to the use of gadgets in Krandegan Village, Gandusari District, Trenggalek Regency, 2) Knowing how the impact of gadget use on teenagers in Krandegan Village, Gandusari District, Trenggalek Regency. This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The data collection techniques used were observation, interview, and documentation. Observation is used to observe the use of gadgets by teenagers in Krandegan Village, Gandusari District, Trenggalek Regency, interviews and documentation are used to dig up information about the problem under study. The results showed that: the use of gadgets in the current era is unavoidable and users must be more able to control their use. However, a technology will always have an impact on its users, both positive and negative impacts. Likewise for teenagers where the use of gadgets has an impact on the social behavior they show everyday, there are several changes in social behavior that appear such as reduced intensity of direct interaction with the environment, too fixated on gadgets when interacting directly with the community, being more closed, the emergence of laziness so that they often forget time, procrastinate work, the level of teenage participation in social activities also decreases.The use of gadgets also has several positive impacts and negative impacts on teenagers such as facilitating communication, accelerating the dissemination of information, as a means of entertainment, facilitating the learning and learning process, expanding the network of friends, making it easier to find work, making it easier for teenagers to shop with e-commerce. While the negative impact is that the intensity of direct interaction is reduced, too fixated with their gadgets, making teenagers more closed, teenagers often procrastinate work and neglect their obligations and responsibilities in the real world, making teenagers lazy in learning, decreasing their sense of concern and empathy for the surrounding environment, reducing the level of youth participation in social activities, the spread of hoax news is increasing, impacting on health and patterns, affecting the family economy and vulnerable to fraud.

The era of globalization means an era where technology is experiencing rapid development. Developments that can be felt by people in various parts of the world are information and communication technology. The rapid development of this globalization era also has an impact on the rapid development of social media which has various advantages and different features. One of them is social media TikTok. The interest of teenagers in using social media TikTok has caused these teenagers to flock more and more to share important and unimportant things such as sharing the latest news with each other while things that are not important such as the occurrence of racism or blasphemy between humans to cases of bullying. Based on the background above, the author wants to discuss what are the impacts of social media TikTok on adolescent behavior in the era of globalization. Here the author uses a qualitative method which conducts a literature study of several journals.  

: Counseling and screening anxiety in adolescents is an important activity in supporting adolescent mental health. Counseling activities aim to provide relevant understanding and information about anxiety in adolescents, including definitions, causes, impacts, and effective management strategies. Through interactive methods, participants are given the opportunity to share experiences and gain a better understanding of anxiety. Meanwhile, anxiety screening in adolescents aims to early detect adolescents who may experience anxiety. Using structured questions and questionnaires, mental health professionals can evaluate adolescents' anxiety levels and direct them to appropriate sources of help. Early detection of anxiety allows adolescents to get appropriate interventions and prevent further negative impacts. Counseling activities and anxiety screening in adolescents have significant benefits. Education helps reduce the stigma associated with anxiety and provides youth with the knowledge and skills to recognize and deal with anxiety in healthy ways. Anxiety screening allows teens to get help earlier and prevent anxiety from getting worse. By actively involving adolescents in counseling and screening activities, they can feel supported and gain a better understanding of anxiety. It is hoped that through these activities, youth can develop positive stress management skills, improve mental well-being, and live a more balanced and productive teenage years.

Smoking is an activity that we are now familiar with. Smoking habits have been proven to cause diseases that attack various organs of the human body. Adolescents as part of society who are at a productive age. Cigarette addiction among teenagers is a severe problem in many countries, including Indonesia. Smoking is one of the factors that increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Nicotine can increase fatty acids that affect total cholesterol levels. The purpose of this study was to describe the total cholesterol levels in active smokers in the light, medium and heavy categories in their teens. The type of research used is descriptive. The sample in this study were 41 active smokers with inclusion criteria, namely active smokers, adolescents less than 18 years of age, male sex, not taking drugs, and had fasted 8-12 hours. The sampling technique used is random. The samples were then examined for cholesterol using the CHOD-PAP method. From the results of the study, 26 (63.4%) respondents had normal cholesterol levels, 10 (24.4%) respondents experienced total cholesterol levels in the threshold category, and 5 (12.2%) respondents experienced total cholesterol levels in the high category. From these results, it can be concluded that most of the active smokers in the Cilawu District have cholesterol levels (<200 mg/dL) with an average value of 157 mg/dL. With this research, it is hoped that adolescent smokers can reduce the number of cigarettes consumed, which can stop smoking.