358 _______________________________________________________ DOI: https://doi.org/10.33258/birle.v3i1.821 The Influence of Education, Mother’s Attitude and Cadres’ Service on Utilization of Posyandu in South Tapanuli, North Sumatera Wilda Zulihartika Nasution 1 , Destanul Aulia 2 , Zulhaida Lubis 2 1 Master Student in Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia 2 Lecturer in Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia zulihartika.wilda12@gmail.com I. Introduction Indicators of human resource development such as increasing the degree of welfare of the nutritional status of the community, increasing optimal growth and development, as well as the welfare and protection of children while continuing to prioritize preventive, promotive and empowerment of families and communities in the health sector. According to Mawardi (2019) Community empowerment as an application of government programs requires full enthusiasm from the community itself so that they will make every effort to improve the quality of their human resources in a total and continuous manner. Many efforts have indeed been carried out by the government, one of which is by providing assistance which is directly channeled to remote villages to support village development and the development of local potentials that are undoubtedly empowered. One form of community empowerment efforts in the health sector is to develop Posyandu (Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia, 2011). Posyandu is a form of Community-Based Health Efforts (UKBM) which is managed and organized from, by, for and with the community in organizing health development, in order to empower the community and provide facilities to the public in obtaining basic health services to accelerate the reduction in maternal and infant mortality rates. (Prasetyawati, 2012). The importance of Posyandu in the community is that the community center can obtain health services and a place to exchange information and can solve health problems being faced by families and communities. Posyandu activities are needed in bringing promotive and Abstract Posyandu as a means of monitoring the growth of toddlers in order to detect problems with growth disorders. Child considering conducted at Posyandu is an effort by the community to monitor the growth of toddler so that community participation is needed. Sayur Matinggi Health Center has an under-targeted program of Posyandu service coverage for toddlers where the percentage of community participation only reaches 53% while the national target coverage is 80%. The type of research used with analytical survey with an sequential explanatory approach. The sample in this study is determine by taking the entire population to be subject of research, as many as 96 toddler’s mothers. This research was conducted at Sayur Matinggi community health centre from Januari to November 2018. The results of the multiple logistic regression test analyses showed that the caders’ service was the dominant factor influencing the utilization of posyandu Sayur Matinggi community health center. The researcher’s suggestion in this research is posyandu cadres should be more active in developing appropriate and interesting activities so that mothers become more active in implementing posyandu and health for their toddlers. Keywords education; mother’sattitude; cadres’s posyandu; utilization