Region 5 Problem Gambling Awareness Team
Problem Gambling Helpline
1-888-789-7777
The Region 5 Problem Gambling Awareness Team consists of community stakeholders working toward raising awareness around disordered gambling and helping connect those in need to treatment. The team meets bi-monthly to review gambling trends and access to treatment.
We host gambling awareness trainings and webinars. Many of our team members have achieved the credentials for The Problem Gambling Certificate of Competency. There is also a Youth Peer Leadership component with an opportunity for regional youth groups to attend trainings and create a public service announcement with a problem gambling focus.
Our partners include DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, The CT Council on Problem Gambling and treatment providers MCCA, Help, Inc., and Apex Community Care.
To learn more about our PGAT, the youth project, or the Certificate of Competency, contact us. We welcome additional members to our team! Check out our quarterly newsletter here.
Keeping Video Gaming Healthy and balanced
Visit our YouTube channel to view the recording of our Powered Up Webinar.
Problem Gambling Awareness Month Initiatives
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View the recording of our 2023 PGAM webinar event:
Help and Hope:
Support for those who struggle with gambling and those who care for them
View the recording of our 2022 PGAM event:
Not Just a Game: Gambling Expansion in CT and the Potential Impacts for Youth
with guest speaker Alison Drain
View the recording of our 2021 PGAM featured event:
The Wild World of Sports Betting
with guest speaker Dan Trolaro
Supplemental materials from speaker Alison Drain: Environmental Scans Pitch and Environmental Scans One-Pager
The Changing Landscape of Gambling in CT
In the News....
2/10/22 Online Betting Comes for Kids
2/9/22 Inside the Life of a Gambling Helpine Worker
Featuring our partners at the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling!
10/27/21 NCPG’s Partnership with NFL Takes Problem and Responsible Gambling Services to the Next Level
Public Act No. 21-23 (in effect 7/1/21)
Harm Reduction
State-wide Responsible Gambling Marketing Campaign
"Responsible Play- The CT Way!"
a unified effort of Connecticut’s key stakeholders in the gaming and problem gambling communities to increase awareness of responsible gaming initiatives.
Book the new Resource Van for our next event!
https://responsibleplayct.org/
Download the Responsible Gambling Brochure
What is Self-Exclusion?
It is a harm-reduction tool which allows individuals the option to voluntarily exclude themselves from certain gambling activities.
To learn more, click here
Fact Sheets for Downloading and Sharing
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More on College Students:
More on Older Adults:
Fact Sheet: Gambling and Women
Fact Sheet: Gambling and Parkinson's Disease
Take Action:
Visit Brain Connections to download gambling handouts
Gaming, Gambling and Youth
Learn the facts about gaming, warning signs of problem gambling and gaming, and take a quiz if you are worried about your own risk or that of a friend or family member. https://ctgamblingandgaming.org/
Gamequitters is an educational resource. Learn about Skins, ESports betting, and how to recognize the signs of problem gaming or gambling.
Fact Sheet:
Problem Gambling Resources
Senales de Advertencia (Problem Gambling Warning Signs in Spanish)
Sinais de Alerta para Problems com (Warning Signs in Portuguese)
Fact Sheet: Gambling and Substance Abuse from CCPG
Fact Sheet: Coping with Gambling Urges from CCPG
For more resources in Spanish, visit ccpg.org
MCCA has dedicated resources to treat those suffering from problem gambling with the Bettor Choice Gambling Program. This is an outpatient gambling specific treatment program funded by the State of Connecticut.
Outpatient Treatment for Problem Gambling Includes
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individual, group, budget counseling for both gamblers and family members
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psychiatric evaluation for both gamblers and family members
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couples and family counseling
MCCA also provides short-term inpatient treatment for clients with a gambling problem at our McDonough House facility
For the complete listing of Bettor Choice Poviders statewide, click here
DMHAS Disordered Gambling Integration Initiative (DiGIn)
Our regional partners Apex Community Care and McCall Center for Behavioral Health are working toward increasing the capacity of substance use disorder and mental health treatment/recovery programs to address gambling and problem gambling through enhanced screening, assessment, awareness, intervention, recovery and health promotion strategies.
Gamblers Anonymous is fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from a gambling problem. Visit www.gamblersanonymous.org to locate a meeting near you.
Gam-Anon (www.gam-anon.org) is a self-help organization for the spouse, family or close friends of those with a gambling disorder.
Our Partners
