Focus on the Future Conference - April 2016 - Portland, OR

1. INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY-BASED PROBLEM
GAMBLING PREVENTION PROJECTS
Focus on the Future Conference
April 28, 2016

2. INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY-BASED PROBLEM
GAMBLING PREVENTION PROJECTS
Focus on the Future Conference
April 28, 2016
Danette Killinger

3. Innovative Community-based Problem Gambling
Prevention Projects
• Responsible Alcohol Sales Training (RAST)
• Community-based training for local retailers
• LifeSkills Training
• School-based curriculum
• Prevention App
• Local resources for youth

4. ResponsibleAlcohol Sales Training (RAST)
RAST
• Responsible
Sales Training
• Training for local
retailers
• 2.5 hour training
• No cost to attend
• Collaborative
Project

5. RAST
Partners include:
• Linn Together
• OLCC Oregon Liquor
Control Commission
• Linn County Sheriff’s
Office
• Linn County Public
Health
• Linn County Problem
Gambling Prevention
& Treatment
• Linn County Alcohol
& Drug Prevention

6. RAST
Employees Learn:
• Oregon laws
regarding sales of
alcohol, tobacco,
inhalants and lottery
products
• How to check ID &
identify fake ID’s
• General training
session combined
with multiple small
workshops

7. RAST
Linn County Problem Gambling Treatment Counselor discusses strategies to reduce
sales to minors.

8. LifeSkills Training (LST)
• LifeSkills Training (LST) is a school-based curriculum proven to
target the fundamental reasons why students engage in
behaviors that put them at risk
• Thirteen 45-50 minute lessons implemented in the classroom
• Individual lessons include: Self-Image, Making Decisions, Smoking,
Alcohol, Marijuana, Advertising, Coping with Anxiety, Coping with
Anger, Communication Skills, Social Skills, Assertiveness and Problem
Gambling Awareness
• LST promotes healthy alternatives to risky behavior through
activities designed to help youth enhance cognitive and
behavioral competency to reduce and prevent a variety of
health risk behaviors

9. LifeSkills Training (LST) Infusion Project
• Infusion project
targets students in
6th grade
• Session Goal: To
provide students with
information to help
prevent problem
gambling

10. LifeSkills Training (LST) Infusion Project
• Increased knowledge about
gambling & problem gambling
• Increased awareness of risks
associated with gambling
activities
• Increased knowledge of the
signs & symptoms of problem
gambling
• Increased understanding of
the probability
• Increased knowledge of local
and state problem gambling
support services

11. LifeSkills Training (LST) Infusion Project
RAVO Student Activity

12. LifeSkills Training (LST) Infusion Project

13. Linn County App for Teens

14. Linn County App for
Teens
• Easy & quick access to local
resources and information
• App provides information and
local resources for alcohol,
bullying, suicide prevention,
and problem gambling

15. Linn County App for Teens
Content includes:
• Gambling: What’s the
big deal
• Risks associated with
problem gambling
• Warning signs
• Community Resources
• How to help a friend
• Get help now
• What’s your gambling
IQ?

16. Linn County
App for Teens
• Partnered with
STAND for app
development
• Facilitated focus
groups with youth
• STAND will market
final product using
incentives to
encourage students
to download

17. Linn County Alcohol & Drug Program
Danette Killinger
541-967-3819

18. Monica Yellowowl, CADC1, CPS
TRIBAL STRATEGIES TO
ADDRESS PROBLEM
GAMBLING

19. History
 Klamath, Modoc,
Yahooskin
 Time beyond
memory
 Everything needed
to survive was
provided for by
Creator
 Songs, traditions,
ceremonies, games,
legends, all intact

20. Historical Trauma
 190 years of
compacted trauma
 Loss of 20 million
acres through treaty
 Modoc
War/Relocation
 Reservation Era
 Boarding School Era
 Loss of
Culture/Traditions
 Termination Era

21. Restoration
 1974
Hunting/Fishing/Gat
hering rights
restored
 1986 Restored
 Economic Self-
Sufficiency plan
 1997 Klamoya
casino

22. Restoration of the Spirit
 How do we begin to
sift through the
wreckage?
 Meaningful
 Culturally Based
 Tribal Best Practice
 “Everything we
needed to survive
was provided for by
the Creator”

23. Youth & Family Guidance
Center
 A&D Services
 Intensive Case
Mngmt
 Mental Health
 Prevention
 Adult Recovery
Support
 Juvenile Crime
 A&D Prevention
 Mental Health Promo
 Suicide Prevention
 Maternal Child Health

24. Opportunity: Problem Gambling
 Task
 One time funding to
host strategy that
addressed problem
gambling
 Thought
 “Everything we need
to survive is
provided for by the
creator.”
 What happened?

25. Innovative….Culturally Based
 Traditional Games!
 Brought people
together for
socializing
 Spirituality is high
 Self Control
 Fun, Entertaining
consistently
 Family involvement
 Culturally rich
environment
 Gambling
 Isolated to machines
or territorial over
strategy
 Sheer luck
 Addiction
 Fun is only when
winning
 Adults only
 Mainstream Culture

26. Stick Game Camp

27. Innovative….Culturally Based
 Pow Wow
 Brought people
together for
socializing
 Protocol
 Foster Identity/Pride
 Fun, Entertaining
consistently
 Tiny tots to Elders
 Culturally rich
environment
 Gambling
 Isolated to machines
or territorial over
strategy
 Sheer luck
 Loss = Guilt/Shame
 Fun is only when
winning
 Adults only
 Mainstream Culture

28. HOPE PowWow

29. Felizardo
he Future 2016
Daniel Felizardo, MPA, CDP
Addictions Program Manager
Focus on the Future 2016

44. Daniel Felizardo, MPA, CDP
dfelizardo@eptha.com