COMMUNITY EDUCATION, HEALTH PROMOTION

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COMMUNITY EDUCATION, HEALTH PROMOTION GAMBLING
HARM Past, present and future
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Todays session

• Setting the scene
• Gamblers Help services
• Harm Minimisation and Product Safety
• Community Education
• Community Educators Network
• History of Community Education
• Community Development and Health
• Promotion frameworks
• Directions
• Examples of past and present initiatives
• Future directions
• Q A

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Gamblers Help Services

• Financial counselling
• Problem Gambling Counselling
• Support Groups
• Community education
• Self help information
• Professional development
• Gambling industry liaison

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Social Determinants

• Social Isolation
• e.g. gamble because they are socially isolated
• Poverty
• e.g. try to make money by gambling
• Stress

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Social Model of Health
MEDICAL APPROACH
BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH
SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH
Source DHS Integrated Health Promotion Kit, 2003
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Harm minimisation
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Harm Minimisation

• Pre-Commitment
• Product Safety

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Community Educators Network

• Established 1995
• Community educators from each Gamblers Help
  service in Victoria
• Backgrounds in Social Work, Health Promotion,
  Community Development, Education Industry
• Focus on statewide and
• cross-regional initiatives
• (e.g. Trade Unions, Youth GPack Project)

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History of Community Education

• Service Promotion
• - Education and Training
• - Festivals and Exhibitions
• - Media
• - Product Development
• Industry
• -Liaison
• -Information sessions
• -Products
• - Policy development

• Service Promotion (Break Even 1995 November
  20002001)
• - Education and Training
• - Festivals and Exhibitions
• - Media
• - Industry Liaison

• Service Promotion (Break Even 1995 November
  20002001)
• - Education and Training
• - Festivals and Exhibitions
• - Media
• - Industry Liaison

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History of Community Education

• Community Education
• - Risk awareness, prevention, protection
• Community Partnerships
• - Partnership funding
• - Work not duplicated
• - Reinforces pathways
• Community Building
• - Whole of community approach (prevention)
• - Social Model of Health

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Case Study Life After Gambling DVD Project

• Behavioural approaches
• Needs have changed for individual
• Community building
• Social action

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Case Study Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender
Intersex

• Midsumma festival - social marketing
• Forums/focus group activity
• Report
• ALSO Foundation partnership
• Draft product development
• Engagement

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Case Study GPack Youth Resource

• Behavioural Approaches
• Research/Focus Groups
• Service Providers
• Referral Pathways

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Case Study Industry

• Policy focus
• Venue scenarios
• Evaluation

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Future Directions

• Continue social model of health
• Prevention and risk awareness
• Pre-Commitment and Product Safety

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Questions?
FOR MORE INFORMATION www.gamblershelp.org www.pro
blemgambling.vic.gov.au
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