<![CDATA[Natural and non-natural disasters occurring in the world continue to increase unpredictably. Considering that disasters can occur at any time, community preparedness in facing disasters is very important. However, the research results show that community preparedness still needs to be improved. This condition also occurs with service partners. Even though Panti Village area is a disaster-prone area, public awareness of disaster preparedness is still low. However, on the other hand, partners have the potential to be developed, namely the existence of Disaster Preparedness Village Youth (DESTANA) which is expected to become a driving force to increase public awareness of disaster preparedness. The solution offered to overcome this problem is to increase community awareness and ability to prepare for disasters through collaboration with DESTANA and BPBD. The activities carried out include health education about disaster management and continued with simulations of disaster emergency management such as the evacuation process when a disaster occurs, dressing splints and simple wound care when a disaster occurs, as well as planting trees as a reforestation effort to prevent flooding. The results show that public knowledge about disaster management increased after being given health education to 77.8% and the remaining 22.2% had fairly good knowledge. After the simulation, the community's skills in evacuating disaster victims became better (82.2% had good skills). Community skills increased by 48.9% of people were able to do simple splint dressing after the simulation. After being given a wound care simulation, people's skills increased by 40% to become skilled at carrying out wound care. Health education and disaster management simulations need to be provided regularly by health workers through collaboration with DESTANA as a disaster prevention mitigation effort.]]>
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