'A Bit of a Gamble' Toolkit

Welcome to 'A Bit of a Gamble' toolkit. The toolkit may be used as a self teaching resource in order to input into your work with young people and parents/carers or to run a workshop (or 'Information Evening') for a parent or community group, or for a group of professionals/volunteers who work with young people and wish to enhance their knowledge and understanding about gambling and young people.

There are sample flyers and letters to parents/carers that you may wish to use as a basis for marketing a session that you intend to facilitate, including a comprehensive PowerPoint slide show with accompanying facilitators' notes and all the Handouts required to run the session, together with a background paper which is recommended reading on the subject area.

CONTENT:

Section 1: Introduction

• Project background
• Why involve parents/carers?
• Tacade
• The International Gaming Research Unit (IGRU)
• The Responsible Gambling Fund (RGF)
• Aim of the Information Evening
• Gambling by young people: brief background information

Section 2: Information Evening for Parents/Carers

• Setting up/advertising the Information Evening
• Outline of Information Evening programme

Section 3: Information Evening Content

• PowerPoint presentation
• What do you already know?
• Why young people choose to gamble/choose not to gamble?
• The extent of young people's gambling
• Influence of parents/carers
• Why might gambling be a problem?
• If your child is a problem gambler
• What parents/carers can do
• Sources of help
• Notes to accompany the PowerPoint presentation
• Handouts for the Information Evening

Section 4: Background paper: Adolescent Gambling by Professor Mark Griffiths

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