The Gambling Support Program (GSP) offers workshops on problem gambling aligned to its strategic plan. The GSP also provides support and resources to community and business organisations to explore or respond to gambling related issues.
Videos
The Gambling Support Program produces videos to use in its community education programs. Click here to view prize winning entries from the Gambiling Support Program's Youth Video Competition 2008, and video resources from the What's the Real Deal? Teacher kit.
Programs and Activities
- Youth Sector and Schools
- Community Programs
- Programs for Industry Groups
- Programs for Health Providers
Programs and Activities Strategy
The Spin. Youth Art Competition
Youth Sector and Schools
Young people and those who work with them are a key target of our youth sector engagement and awareness programs. We have produced a teaching and learning resource for high schools, What’s The Real Deal?, linked to the Tasmanian Curriculum Framework (TCF).
Activities for schools:
- Use your What's the Real Deal? teaching kit to find gambling workshop materials that link to the curriculum.
- Focus existing class activities around gambling. E.g. examine the nature of conditioning within behavioural studies, explore the notion of chance and odds in numeracy, examine the advertising messages in a social studies context.
- Invite GSP staff or a gambling support counsellor to be a guest speaker.
- Include responsible gambling education in the program of your next health and wellbeing event.
- Examine gambling and its impact at your school during Responsible Gambling Awareness Week.
Community Programs
The Community Sector remains an important avenue in accessing grassroots involvement for awareness programs, as local communities are often best placed to understand complex local issues. Various communities have specific ideas on how to best address problem gambling in their regions.
Engagement activities for community groups:
- We collaborate with local organisations and peak bodies around community education programs most suited to the identified needs of the target group.
- We can serve as guest speakers at your meetings.
- We can link your organisation with gambling counselling services in your area.
- You might choose to include responsible gambling information in the program of your next health and wellbeing event.
- We can provide resources and support to develop your own community action plan.
Programs for Industry Groups
Industry stands at the front line, working day to day with our target population. Thus we aim to provide contemporary, best-practise programs informed by research to industry. This ranges from involvement in the development of the Responsible Conduct of Gaming course to provision of venue materials around the warning signs and of problem gambling.
- We can tailor workplace specific workshops matched to the needs of a group or business.
- We can provide information resources on problem gambling.
- You may choose to display materials so that staff and patrons remain alert to the dangers of problem gambling.
Industry groups are a key stakeholder and focus point for our annual awareness week campaign during Responsible Gambling Awareness Week (RGAW), held in the third week of May.
Programs for Health Providers
Health providers may be working daily with community members affected by problem gambling without that problem being disclosed.
- We develop and distribute materials for health professionals on problem gambling signs, screening tests and specialist referral information.
- You may choo
se to include problem gambling material such as posters and brochures where patients and clients can see them.
