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Treatment and Advice Programmes We grant funds for treatment and advice services for problem gamblers, and anyone affected by problem gambling, throughout Britain.
Service Providers Nationally, initial contact services for problem gamblers, such as the national Helpline, are commissioned through GamCare and the National Problem Gambling Clinic. Counselling is delivered at local level by GamCare in London and outside London by a network of different local agencies. Most of them also offer substance misuse counselling. Gordon Moody Association is a specialist provider of residential treatment for addicted gamblers.
View contact details of available services.
GRaHM Pilots RGF is in the process of commissioning three, three-year Gambling Risk and Harm Minimisation (GRaHM) pilot projects.
Each three-year pilot is expected to contribute to significant developments in support for gambling-related harm - particularly focusing on early identification and intervention. The pilots will aim to develop the capability of local primary care, substance misuse, mental health, debt advice, and other community-based services to identify and assist people, and those close to them, who are at risk of, or are already being negatively affected by gambling. Read more here.
National Gambling Helpline RGF is handing on the task of securing the long-desired free-to-all National Gambling Helpline to the gambling industry-led fundraising body the GREaT Foundation. Read more here.
RGF has published a review of clinical governance practice for gambling-related harm treatment service providers, leading to a common framework setting out the requirements and responsiblilities for all treatment providers. RGF is currently making available consultancy support to treatment providers to enable them to "map" their current clinical governance processes (and strenghten them where neccessary) against the framework in order to ensure that all RGF-funded providers meet RGF's commissioning requirements.
Read the review here.
National Occupational Standards for Gambling-Related Harm RGF is in the early stages of developing a suite of National Occupational Standards (NOS) for individual workers from a range of employment sectors, who are likely to be in contact with people at risk or experiencing gambling-related harm.
NOS are commonly used in a very wide range of employment sectors, and can be deployed to support both performance management and skills identification processes (recruitment, induction, supervision, appraisal) and the development of vocational credits and qualifications.
Current project activities include:
The proposed NOS are being developed to act as a professional development resource for either 'internal' organisational use (to support HR and Training & Development processes etc) and/or external application via qualifications. They are designed to assist workers in any employment sector who may encounter people at risk of or experiencing gambling-related harm, such as primary healthcare staff, debt advisers, and employees of gambling companies. Any proposed new NOS would complement and not duplicate existing suites, such as the People first standards and many other treatment-related 'packages', and are in no sense either intended to be mandatory for any workforce or to be used as an audit tool.
Gambling-related harm interventions training for GPs and Primary Care staff RGF has commissioned the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) to develop and implement a training package for GPs and Primary Care staff, which will be applicable to other relevant Tier 1 and Tier 2 gambling-related harm treatment and interventions professionals. Read more here.
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