PG Webinar: Mitigating Gambling Harm w/ Technology First Solutions
Dealing with Problem Gambling Webinar Series
Virtual Series Via Big Blue Button Platform
The North Carolina Problem Gambling Program (NCPGP) is pleased to offer a series of free webinars focusing on the treatment of problem gambling. The NCPGP, along with the NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Use Services, Morneau Shepell, and UNC Chapel Hill School of Social Work/Behavioral Health Springboard work together to bring to our state the Sure Bet Training Series, and to develop the NCPGP Provider Registry. These webinars are intended to educate NCPGP Providers, as well as other behavioral health providers, about risk factors, incidence rates, impact, and treatment strategies for working with people with problematic gambling behavior. For more information on the NCPGP visit https://morethanagamenc.com/
Mitigating Gambling Harm w/ Technology First Solutions
Date: September 26, 2024 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Registration Close Date: September, 20 2024
Speaker: Sam DeMello
Sam is an experienced early-stage startup builder, with over a decade of experience scaling successful organizations as a Customer Success and Talent Acquisition Leader. He is also a person with a gambling addiction in recovery. He combines his professional experience in the Technical and Digital Therapeutics industries with his lived experience as a person in gambling recovery to build technology-first solutions to reduce gambling harm in the growing community of gamblers
Description:
Technological changes combined with liberalized gambling laws have been two major drivers behind the recent growth in gambling participation and revenues. New measures to balance the growth of legalized gambling with solutions to mitigate gambling harms have been developed, however, their impact is not keeping pace with need. This presentation will review several new technologies designed to reduce gambling harm, discuss their promises and limitations, and introduce a new comprehensive digital health platform that empowers users to create and maintain a healthy relationship with gambling, regardless of their goal: to quit, to control their
spending and/or time gambling, or to maintain current levels of positive play. The new technology that will be introduced during the session is designed to appeal to the new generation of mobile and online gamblers by utilizing gamification features within an app, conversational language, community engagement, and multi-method teaching techniques and change strategies. The development approach and preliminary evaluation data for this new suite of technology driven solutions will be presented and discussed.
Learning Objectives:
1. understand how technology can be harnessed within health apps to foster healthy relationships with gambling.
2. understand how current tools and systems of care are not meeting today’s growing needs.
Registration Fee: No cost/Free but participants are required to pre-register for each training
Contact Hours: 1
UNC School of Social Work, Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building
325 Pittsboro St. Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Continuing education statements The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6642. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Each successfully completed webinar qualifies for 1 contact hour.
This course has been submitted the North Carolina Addiction Specialist Professional Practice Board for 1 SS contact hours.
