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Gambling in the Family: The Hidden Harms
Contact person
Jazmine Bennett
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Summary
This training will explore gambling and the associated risks and harms, including the increasingly blurred lines between gaming and gambling.
Detailed description
The session will be delivered in partnership with Simon Community Scotland and Scottish Gambling Education Hub, a Fast Forward project.
Throughout the 2-hour interactive session, we will explore gambling as a public health issue, focusing on current issues affecting children, young people, women and families.
Following a harm reduction approach, we will discuss how to talk about gambling with the individuals and groups that you work with, and we’ll share free educational resources with links to specialist support.
Participants will:-
-Gain knowledge of current issues surrounding gambling related to children, young people, women and families
- Gain an increased awareness and understanding of gambling harms- Identify risk factors that predispose individuals to gambling harms
- Develop an understanding about gambling-like features within video games and how these can possibly lead to gambling harms
- Consider the link between gambling disorder with child protection and childhood trauma- Better understand the impact of gambling on women and with a focus of those in caregiving roles
- Be more prepared to lead conversations and facilitate activities or discussion around gambling and gaming with children, young people, women or families
- Be able to identify and recognise the signs of gambling harms, and know how and where to signpost for additional support
Please contact [email protected] or [email protected] if you require further information.
About DVVA
Dundee Volunteer and Voluntary Action is an independent charity that aims to ensure the third sector (charities, social enterprises, community and voluntary groups etc.) is robust, resilient and delivers high quality services for the people of Dundee.
We provide a wide range of support to third sector organisations and have expertise in a wide range of skills and topics including governance, funding, legislation, policy, planning and problem solving to name just a few key areas.
We have a primary role in ensuring the continuation and development of a vibrant third sector in Dundee, and achieve this by supporting organisations to be:
well governed and managed to enable them to deliver quality outcomes
better connected and able to influence and contribute to public policy
Dundee Volunteer and Voluntary Action is a Registered Charity (No. SC000487) and a Company Limited by Guarantee (No. SC093088), and began life as Dundee Association for Social Services in 1953. The change in name was made in 1988 to reflect our changing role as a member organisation promoting community welfare more directly through voluntary action.