Lismore-Tweed Heads Gambling Help Regional Roundtable

Lismore-Tweed Heads Gambling Help Regional Roundtable Invitation When: Thursday 25 May, 11am to 2pm (including lunch)

Where: Lismore Community Corrections Office, Conway Plaza, Suite 14B, 21 Conway Street, Lismore

Who: All legal, justice, corrections and community professionals interested in improving screening for problem gambling, increasing referrals to free Gambling Help services, and enhancing recovery and reducing crime, incarceration and recidivism in your community.

Agenda

1) Welcome, acknowledgements and introductions (Alison)

2) Why ask your clients about problem gambling? (Alison)

a) Recognising problem gambling

b) Ensuring offenders and their families receive free treatment

‘If problem gambling is part of the problem, then successful screening and effective referrals to free Gambling Help treatment can be part of the solution.’

3) Local Gambling Help services and referral pathways (Emma, Harry)

4) A local Gambling Help Action Plan: What might this look like? (Alison)

a) Trial unique local screening and referral tool to trial before next meeting.

b) Seek inclusion of problem gambling in new client checklists.

c) Identify methods of recording of data, data collection activities and pathways for the data to be used by identified stakeholders for allocation of resources and enhancement of outcomes for client groups.

5) Discussion: Next steps for Lismore-Tweed communities

a) Screening and referral tool adjustments?

b) Client checklist opportunities?

c) Data collection and analysis opportunities? Baseline data. Next steps.

d) Action Plan

e) Regional roundtable Terms of Reference

f) Theme requests for future meetings? (co-morbidities, CALD or Aboriginal focus?)

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6) Future meeting opportunities

Contacts

Alison Handmer, Project Specialist Emma Ryan, Manager, Harry Beckers, Warruwi Gambling – Legal, Justice & Corrections Northern Rivers Gambling Help Service (Aboriginal community Liquor & Gaming NSW Counselling Service awareness) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 6621 7397, 0412 475 056 02 9995 0785 6687 2520, 0418 683 991

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