The Connecticut Women's Consortium
Across Women's Lifespan:
How Trauma and Gambling Intersect
Tuesday, October 17 | 9am to 4pm
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Gambling is a normative and pervasive part of our culture. The vast majority of people do engage in gambling activities, and most do so in a safe manner. For a small percentage of the population, however, gambling can become a problem behavior, or, even worse, a full-blown addiction. Known as the "hidden addiction", problem and disordered gambling impacts over 66,000 Connecticut citizens and thousands more family members, employers, friends, co-workers and neighbors. Problem gambling often "co-occurs" with substance abuse and mental health disorders, financial distress, depression, anxiety and illegal acts committed to support the gambling.
Women comprise one of the many "at-risk populations" vulnerable to developing a gambling problem, and a trauma history compounds that vulnerability. This training will offer a baseline understanding of gambling and how it impacts brain and biology, how to "have the conversation" with clients and how to recognize a woman who may have a gambling problem; and how to assist that woman in getting help to address it. Also included will be a statewide "gambling-informed" model, how you can move your agency to be more "gambling informed", and how to connect with local treatment and prevention options.
Register @ www.womensconsortium.org
Shirley Hoak, JD, NCGC-II, CPRS & Susan D. McLaughlin, MPA, CPP
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