Guidance and Counseling program in National Youth Service of Kenya

The National Youth Service (NYS) is a department in the Ministry of Devolution. The Basic Paramilitary Training Programme exposes recruits to psychosocial problems hence need for counselling services. Recruits’, servicemen/women’s and officers’ perception of the effectiveness of guidance and counselling programme determines it’s implementation and success in NYS. The study used the ex post facto research design. The required data were collected through questionnaires. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used in the analysis of data in the study. The findings of the study revealed that the guidance and counselling programme was perceived positively by all NYS stakeholders. The study thus recommended that there was need to offer more appropriate training to officer counsellors and provide the necessary adequate resources for effective service delivery.