My name is Dionne Smith and I work for NECA Gambling Services in the Empowering Youth Programme.
Our Gambling Harm Prevention and Education team deliver training and awareness sessions to young people from 10-25 years old, professionals, parents and carers; raising awareness around gambling related harms that young people may come across regularly. Our Young People sessions are linked to the PSHE curriculum and come at no cost to your organisation. Similarly, our Professionals sessions are fully CPD accredited again at no cost to you. The sessions can be offered both face to face at your school or virtual sessions all year round.
We are very keen to increase awareness of gambling related harms throughout communities and organisations working with young people. To enable us to further promote this work we are looking to recruit Gambling Related Harms Champions within youth organisations/schools/colleges etc.
We aspire to have a Gambling Related Harms Champion within each school/organisation, this would involve a free awareness session to enable the champions to recognise signs of gambling harms, deliver a brief intervention and signpost to appropriate support. This would be invaluable in raising awareness of the harms and the support available.
We can provide leaflets, posters, popups and gambling related harms awareness sessions amongst other things.
I attach our charter for further information, this includes a QR code and link for ease of sign up, I would be very grateful if you or one of your colleagues would consider this.
Please get in touch if you would like further information or if I can be of any assistance.
I look forward to hearing from you and the possibility of working with you all soon
