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National Council on Problem Gambling: The National Council on Problem Gambling is the only national nonprofit organization that seeks to minimize the economic and social costs associated with gambling addiction. NCPG is neutral on legalized gambling. Members get access to frequent free webinars, problem gambling and responsible gambling toolkits with sharable social media content to raise awareness, and discounts on the annual conference.

National Council on Problem Gambling Adopts 1-800-MY-RESET as New National Problem Gambling Helpline™ Number

These are the state entities for problem gambling in New England.

Outside the region:

Resources

Against the Odds – Problem Gambling Graphic Medicine

A New tool to help foster prevention-focused conversations with young people about problem gambling. Tips for talking & lesson plans are included. Technical assistance is available.

Agility grant

NCPG’s Agility Grant initiative offers funding to nonprofits, empowering them to implement and expand problem gambling prevention programs in their communities.

The Agility Grants program is the first-ever program to offer national grants in problem gambling prevention. More than $1 million in funding support has been granted from 2022 to 2024 to establish and enhance problem gambling prevention strategies. Another $1.5 million will be granted from 2025-2027. Agility Grants funding will support the innovation and amplification of prevention programming by encouraging new activities, validating growing initiatives, expanding proven programming and more.

YMCA of Toronto YGAP program: Young people are especially at risk of experiencing problems related to gambling. Youth can experience mental health, physical health, social, educational, relationship, and financial problems from gambling. Ontario teens are 5 times more likely to develop a severe gambling problem compared to adults, and young people may experience severe problem gambling more than adults. Many adults who experience problem gambling started gambling when they were children. This program is unique to supporting teens and can be a helpful resource when considering prevention and connections to youth substance use. 

Trainings and Videos

ADEPT and Southern New Hampshire Area Health Education Center (SNHAHEC) are partnering to offer a one hour introduction to Problem Gambling session recording from December 3, 3035. The link to Join is HERE. This webinar defines gambling and gives examples of legal, regulated gambling as well as activities that check all the boxes for gambling, but for various reasons, aren’t regulated as gambling. Participants will learn how to define problem gambling and gambling disorder and identify at-risk groups. The session highlights how risk factors overlap between gambling and substance use disorder and covers some brief screening tools and conversation techniques to ask about gambling in a sensitive, nonjudgmental manner. Finally,  resources are discussed that help individuals and affected others impacted by gambling harm.

Here is the recording for the training – it will need to be trimmed down, and if the question & answer section at the end is still there, we told them we would remove that portion of the recording to protect anyone who wanted to ask questions off the record.  https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/lxgt9ADEaHU5NlrVWlXIRvCrKeiR68e34HsK4U56e6vi2mRwKgeycyIY7il8dBKd.X6aNkK1OBqCnZx4T

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Collegiate High-Risk Gambling Training: Ohio State University recently released a “Collegiate High-Risk Gambling Training” which offers a 45 minute facilitated conversation style program for college students.

Problem Gambling Boot Camp: In partnership with the CT Council, CADCA has developed a “Problem Gambling Boot Camp” for coalitions who are learning to incorporate PG prevention into their SUD prevention work. includes a toolkit and workshop that introduces gambling to coalitions. Here is the powerpoint they use in conjunction with the program.

ADEPT has a library of free, on-demand problem gambling webinars which are available to anyone. They explore topics related to problem gambling which could be valuable to anyone interested in learning about problem gambling. Here are some that we would recommend:

Data

NGAGE 3.0 is recently released data from an April 2024 national survey to measure “National Gambling Attitudes and Gambling Experiences.” The NGAGE series of surveys are part of NCPG’s ongoing effort to learn more about gambling attitudes and experiences in order to increase public awareness and identify needs for programs to prevent problem gambling and promote responsible gambling. (Note: The NGAGE surveys are NOT studies of the prevalence of gambling addiction.) There is a robust dashboard you can access and you can drill down for many NH specific statistics. https://www.ncpgambling.org/training/ngage-survey/ngage-dashboard/ For example, Lori though some of these stats on the NH dashboard were interesting: Lottery Draw Tickets are the most popular form of gambling in NH with 68% saying they purchased them at least once during the year and 16% buying them at least weekly. Seven percent of NH people who indicated gambling in the past year said they felt irritable or restless when trying to cut down. Seventeen percent of NH people said that gambling is a good way to make money, which is a fallacy that can lead to problems.