ABSTRAK
Youth volunteers of Anti-Drug Program is a public program that aims to provide technicalknowledge and awareness pertaining to drug addictions, ensure drug-free families, helporganizations to mobilize efforts for a drug-free workplace and drug-free community. This studyseeks to find out the possible problems pertaining to this voluntary program as youth in KualaTerengganu, Malaysia were found to be the target group. This study aims to identify the factorsthat cause the problems faced by the volunteers in this program. A total of 245 volunteers wereinvolved in this Youth Anti-Drug Voluntary Program, based in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. Thisstudy is a descriptive study, using questionnaire as an instrument in the data collection procedure,which consists of three sections including respondents’ background, factors that cause members tobe involved with the program and ways to overcome problems in this voluntary youth program.Data were analyzed using the Statistical Packages for the Social Science (SPSS) software, and isdiscussed in terms of percentages, frequencies and mean. The findings show that participants’ lackof participation, no post-mortem meetings between members of the organization, lack ofsystematic management skills as well as no diversity of activities are among the factors that causesuch problems in making this Youth Anti-Drug Voluntary Program a success. Most participantsagreed that factors like education, experience, passion, and talent can be listed as a few of the keyfactors in the success of the program. It was also recommend that meeting with new people, visits,social service, programs with drug addicts should be held and organized in order to make thisvoluntary program a success. Besides that, the main factors required of participants in this programare spiritual awareness through education, motivational camps, as well as outdoor anti-drug campslike camping, and cooperative work |
