Youth education
Odds on Youth capacity building program
Odds on Youth, is a capacity building program for youth organisations to reduce gambling harm among young people who access their services.
The program involves three stages:
- A one day gambling harm education workshop to increase the knowledge and skills of youth workers to address gambling harm.
- Engagement with a Gambling Help counselling service.
- Grants of up to $60,000 for the participating youth organisations to implement their own gambling harm prevention intervention for young people who access their services.
The first round of the program took place in the Inner West of Sydney in September 2019. The second round of the program took place in the South West of Sydney in March 2020, a short video about the workshop is available. Across both rounds funding has been awarded to the following nine organisations:
Service | Intervention | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Inner West Sydney round | ||
Glebe Youth Service | Hip Hop- Gambling Stop An eight week program for young people who access Glebe Youth Service. It will include three weeks of gambling harm minimisation workshops and five weeks of writing and recording a Hip Hop song. | $9,968 |
headspace Ashfield | The Longer You Play the More You Lose A series of psychoeducation and harm-minimisation workshops for Inner West high school students aged 15-17 and Inner West young people aged 16-25 who are at risk of homelessness. | $11,000 |
Marrickville Youth Resource Centre | Safe Bet on Strengthening Youth, Families & Communities Marrickville Youth Resource Centre will work with Western Sydney University to deliver workshops on the precursors to adolescent gambling problems as well as hosting community screen-free events. Participants will then be invited to join the Strengthening Families Program, a 12 week, evidence-based program on parenting skills, children’s life skills and family skills. The intervention will target young people aged 12-17 and their parents or guardians. | $60,000 |
Mission Australia | Odds on Youth Early Intervention Program This program for young people aged 15-24 in the Canterbury Bankstown area has three streams:
| $67,485 |
Youth off the Streets | Youth off the Streets (YOTS) Gambling Intervention This intervention involves a review and evaluation of YOTS intake procedures to determine whether gambling is a risk factor as well as workshops in their specialist homeless service in the Inner West of Sydney, their drug and alcohol centre at Marylands and a workshop through their Links to Learning program. | $36,500 |
| South West Sydney round | ||
Cumberland City Council | Cumberland Odds on Youth A local awareness campaign and education resource about gambling harm in the Cumberland area, co-designed with young people. | $60,000 |
Fairfield City Council | Pay to Play? This project includes a series of videos to educate young people in the Fairfield local area. The videos will be made with input from young people and will help them identify gambling harm. | $60,000 |
headspace Campbelltown | Cash Me Outside Targeting young people in the Campbelltown, Camden, Wollondilly and Wingecarribee areas, this project will include education resources, lived experience stories and capacity building for youth workers to help them identify and respond to young people at risk of gambling harm. | $60,000 |
Woodville Alliance | Game Over: The Vietnamese Youth Project This project involves the production of youth friendly and culturally appropriate short videos about gambling and gambling harm for young people from a Vietnamese background living in the Fairfield area. | $56,000 |
For more information please contact us.
Talking with Teens program
This program was aimed at engaging young people in the years immediately before and after leaving school and had a preventative focus to equip young people to make sensible choices as they become more exposed to gambling.
Early intervention was provided through education, awareness and support from parents, teachers, carers and role models to encourage young people to make informed choices about gambling and to be aware of support services if they were to develop issues with their gambling.
The program was delivered through videos, Facebook and email, supported by lesson plans, workshops and seminars delivered at TAFE, Universities and to school counsellors.
A Talking with Teens about Gambling Video Series was also developed to encourage young people to make informed decisions about gambling. Topics covered tipping and the odds of gambling. You can access each of the videos by clicking the links below.
- Part 1: Make me Feel Good
- Part 2: Man-Flirt
- Part 3: Tip This
- Part 4: Show me the glamour
- Part 5: Can you bank on it?
- Part 6: Never seen a loser..
- Part 7: Re Take
- Part 8: Scratch This
- Part 9: Get off my phone
- Part 10: Smart means wins?
- Part 11: The odds are what?
Resources
These resources can support conversations with young people about gambling:
For teachers:
Responsible Gambling Lesson Plans, covering the risks and costs of gambling, sports betting advertising, online & smart phone betting and seeking help. Read the ‘What you need to know’ factsheet before accessing the lesson plans.
The ‘Don’t Bet on It’ series:
- None of my friends have a problem about gambling poster
- One more punt poster one and One more punt poster two
- Don’t bet on it factsheet
We also have social media assets for ‘Don’t Bet on It’. Please contact us for access to these.
For parents and carers:
A Talking to Teens about Gambling guide for parents and carers.