Too many committed professionals have told us that they know an increasing number of their service users are experiencing gambling harm, but they don’t have the tools and information to engage them or know where to refer them if they did.
Chapter One is free from gambling industry funding and influence.
Adult, social care, drugs and alcohol services
Citizens’ advice, debt advisors and support services
Students and Young People services
Council staff, police and probation officers
GPs
Primary care
Mental health practitioners
Social prescribers link workers and community nurses
Our training has been developed based on the best available international evidence on gambling-related harm, by clinicians, and by people with lived experience.
As part of the development of our training, we commissioned an assessment of the quality of the existing training available in the UK, which found almost all of the training available in the UK was funded by the gambling industry and added to the stigma associated with gambling harm. Much of the training obscured the best routes into treatment for people with addictions.
Chapter One is piloting and evaluating its training offer in Greater Manchester. Following the pilot the training will be available nationally both in person and through an e-learning portal that will form part of this professionals hub.
For more information and for details of course dates in Greater Manchester please email hello@chapter-one.org
Training objectives:
• Build an understanding of the risks and harms of gambling and how serious they are
• Be able to list the causes of gambling addiction – the role of the industry and the addictive nature of some gambling products
• Address stigma and prejudice, start to build empathy and belief that ‘it’s not the fault of the individual suffering gambling harms’
• Build skills, confidence and knowledge so participants can identify if someone needs help and support
• Know how to ask the right questions and have the conversation
• Know where to go for information and support. Help people take some simple steps now
Module 1: Gambling - we have a problem
Module 2: Tackling gambling-related stigma
Module 3: The causes of gambling harms
Module 4: The effects of gambling harms and how to identify if someone needs support
Module 5: How to have the conversation
Module 6: How to help someone harmed by gambling
Specialist information and resources to support professionals will become available on this hub in the coming weeks. If you want information now on gambling harms and the causes of gambling addiction please start here.
