GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- The South Cotabato police has partnered with the Department of Education (DepEd) to further strengthen the province’s anti-drug advocacy campaign among the youth sector.
Sr. Supt. Franklin Alvero, South Cotabato police director, said Thursday they decided to replicate DepEd’s Barkada Kontra Droga or BKD program to enhance its anti-drug information and education activities in local communities.
“This is to expand our coverage and bring more focus to our anti-drug advocacy campaign,” he said.
The BKD was among the flagship programs introduced by the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) that advocates the development of the youths to serve as role models for “a more productive and healthy life away from the ill effects of illegal drugs.”
It is being implemented by DepEd in public secondary or high schools through the National Drug Education Program.
A program briefer said BKD is a “peer-based program designed as one of the preventive measures to counter the negative effects of illegal drugs,” using information and education dissemination campaign and related activities.
To effectively implement the program, the DDB, in collaboration with DepEd, local government units and anti-drug abuse councils launched the annual search for outstanding program implementers in the secondary schools.
Alvero said they will continue to assist the DepEd in the program’s implementation in local schools.
“At the same time, we will implement the program focusing on our out-of-school youths,” he said.
He said they will tap as implementers the police officers who were assigned in the Drug Abuse Resistance Education or DARE program for elementary pupils.
South Cotabato Gov. Daisy Avance-Fuentes, who chairs the Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Council, lauded the move noting that it will help fill the gaps in their ongoing anti-drug advocacy campaigns.
To be more effective, she said the advocacy programs should cover learners from the elementary to the college levels.
“We will focus on addressing these gaps one at a time,” the governor said.
She added that the local government will provide for the needed funds for the expansion of the BKD program among the out-of-school youths.(PNA)
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