Addressing Problem Gambling in Toronto and Windsor/Essex County Ethnic Communities EIGHT COMMUNITY FINAL RESEARCH Harold J. Wynne, Ph.D. REPORTS John McCready, Ph.D. 1ST OF FOUR Submitted on Behalf of PROJECT COSTI Immigrant Services FINAL REPORTS to the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre June 2004 PROJECT RESEARCH REPORTS There are four separate, but related, project final reports that describe the design/methodology, contain the findings/conclusions, and present the action plans from the research project entitled, Addressing Problem Gambling in Toronto and Windsor/Essex County Ethnic Communities. Each of these reports are available from the COSTI Immigrant Services website (www.costi.org) and the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre website (www.gamblingresearch.org). Readers are encouraged to download and read each of these following four companion reports to gain a complete understanding of this research project. Phase I – Research In Phase I of this project, each of the eight participating ethnic communities completed exploratory research into gambling and problem gambling in their populations. Subsequently, each community wrote a final research report describing their experience and findings, and each of these eight reports have been compiled into the first compendium research report entitled, Report 1 – Addressing Problem Gambling in Toronto and Windsor/Essex County Ethnic Communities. Eight Community Final Research Reports. Drs. Wynne and McCready, the project co-investigators, then synthesized the findings and conclusions from these eight ethnic community research reports and prepared a second final summary research report entitled, Report 2 - Addressing Problem Gambling in Toronto and Windsor/Essex County Ethnic Communities. Final Summary Report. Phase II – Action Planning In Phase II of this project, each of the eight communities prepared an action plan, based on the findings from their Phase I research. The third project research report is a compendium of eight community action plans, and it is entitled Report 3 - Addressing Problem Gambling in Toronto and Windsor/Essex County Ethnic Communities. Eight Community Final Action Plan Reports. Drs. Wynne and McCready also synthesized the findings and conclusions in these eight action plan reports, and then compiled the fourth and final research report entitled, Report 4 - Addressing Problem Gambling in Toronto and Windsor/Essex County Ethnic Communities. Final Action Plan Summary Report. TABLE OF CONTENTS TORONTO AFGHAN COMMUNITY.................................................................................1 TORONTO FILIPINO COMMUNITY...............................................................................58 TORONTO GREEK COMMUNITY ...............................................................................127 TORONTO INDO-CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY ............................................................182 TORONTO IRAQI COMMUNITY ..................................................................................238 WINDSOR JEWISH COMMUNITY...............................................................................284 TORONTO SOMALI COMMUNITY ..............................................................................319 WINDSOR-ESSEX COUNTY SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY ......................................381 1 Addressing Problem Gambling In the Toronto Afghan Community FINAL RESEARCH REPORT Prepared by: Afghan Association of Ontario Toronto, Ontario February 2003 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................................................2 LIST OF TABLES..............................................................................................................3 ABSTRACT.......................................................................................................................4 1. INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................5 1.1 Background ...........................................................................................................5 1.2 Participants............................................................................................................5 2. COMMUNITY DESCRIPTION...............................................................................6 3. RESEARCH ..........................................................................................................8 3.1 Purpose and Goals................................................................................................8 3.2 Research Questions..............................................................................................8 3.3 Methods.................................................................................................................9 3.3.1 Data Collection ..............................................................................................9 Community Survey................................................................................................9 Key Informant Interviews.....................................................................................10 Focus Groups......................................................................................................10 Case Study Interviews.........................................................................................10 Field Notes and Observations.............................................................................10 3.3.2 Data Collection Tools ..................................................................................11 Community Survey..............................................................................................11 Key Informant Interviews.....................................................................................11 Focus Groups......................................................................................................11 Case Study Interviews.........................................................................................11 3.3.3 Data Analysis...............................................................................................11 Statistical Analysis...............................................................................................11 Content Analysis .................................................................................................12 3.4 Limitations ...........................................................................................................12 4. FINDINGS ...........................................................................................................13 5. CONCLUSIONS ..................................................................................................28 APPENDIX I Community Survey.....................................................................................32 APPENDIX II Key Informant Questionnaire ....................................................................43 APPENDIX III Focus Group Questionnaire.....................................................................47 APPENDIX IV Case Study Questionnaire.......................................................................51 APPENDIX V Case Studies ............................................................................................54 Addressing Problem Gambling in the Toronto Afghan Community – Final Research Report 3 LIST OF TABLES TABLE 1 Gambling Frequency, Duration and Expenditures from Community Survey ...13 TABLE 2 Gambling Frequency, Duration and Expenditures from Focus Group.............14 TABLE 3 Marital Status...................................................................................................14 TABLE 4 Education.........................................................................................................15 TABLE 5 Employment Status..........................................................................................15 TABLE 6 Annual Household Income...............................................................................15 TABLE 7 Win Back Losses .............................................................................................17 TABLE 8 Borrow Money to Gamble................................................................................17 TABLE 9 Sold Anything to Gamble.................................................................................17 TABLE 10 Tried to Quit or Cut Down Gambling..............................................................18 TABLE 11 Asked for Help to Quit Gambling ...................................................................18 TABLE 12 Personal Financial Problems Caused by Gambling ......................................19 TABLE 13 Household Financial Problems Caused by Gambling ...................................20 TABLE 14 Sold Anything to Gamble...............................................................................20 TABLE 15 Lied to Hide Gambling ...................................................................................20 TABLE 16 Illegal Acts to Get Money to Gamble .............................................................20 TABLE 17 Lost Relationships Because of Gambling......................................................21 TABLE 18 Lost a Job Because of Gambling...................................................................21 TABLE 19 Lost an Education Opportunity Because of Gambling ...................................21 TABLE 20 Help Seeking Preferences for Gambling Problems .......................................22