The students’ awareness on prevention campaign of the inter agency council against human trafficking in Tuguegarao City

This study aimed to determine the student's awareness on prevention campaign through the programs, activities, and projects of the inter agency council against trafficking (IACAT) in exterminating human trafficking. This study further investigated the level of awareness of the students on IACAT's prevention campaign on human trafficking and significant relationship between responses under level of awareness and effectiveness based on students’ perception. This study involved 789 respondents composing of 223 student-respondents from the College of Teacher Education (CTED); 92 student-respondents from the College of Allied Health student-respondents from the College of Sciences (CAHS); 228 student-respondents from the College of Business, Entrepreneurship and Accountancy (CBEA); and 246 student-respondents from the College of Hotel Industry Management (CHIM). The respondents were chosen through random sampling technique. The study made used of the descriptive co relational research design to determine the awareness and effectiveness of IACAT prevention campaign. The major instrument used in gathering the data was the questionnaire. Interview and documentary analysis were also utilized. This study revealed a finding that students are partially aware of IACAT's prevention campaign through the conduct of seminars, media programs, used of social media applications and publication. Also, the degree of effectiveness of IACAT programs over the campaign against human trafficking plays a great factor to the awareness of the students. With IACAT's discharge of its roles and functions relative to campaigns against human trafficking needs greater intensification because complete awareness of students on cases of human trafficking is fully dependent on the ability of the IACAT. A better mapped out actions like revisiting, reconstructing and reorienting its activities, programs and projects is recommended in this study to make them more efficiently fitting to make students more aware on its campaign against human trafficking.