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HealthWest Reducing Gambling Frequency with CALD Communities

HealthWest Invites CALD Community Leaders to Help Reduce Harmful Gambling

HealthWest recently received a grant from the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation’s new local prevention program. With it they intend to reduce harmful gambling activities for at-risk communities. More details of the VRGF grants program can be found here.

The north and west metropolitan region is home to some of the most economically disadvantaged, ethnically diverse communities. Yet, it is also the area with the greatest gambling losses. Furthermore, studies have shown that recreational trips to casinos present a specific risk to vulnerable communities.

HealthWest aims to use the grant to target these communities; and are inviting CALD (cultural and linguistically diverse) community leaders to join an advisory group and combat these detrimental issues. HealthWest is also asking older, ethno-specific social groups who have attended gambling venues for recreational outing in the past or who continue to do so, to participate in a confidential survey. The survey will help determine the cost of these activities.

HealthWest encourages all CALD community leaders who are passionate about reducing the negative impact harmful gambling has on their community to contact Lyn Dundon, Project Manager: T: 83799945   E: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   W: healthwest.org.au 

 

HealthWest Invites CALD Community Leaders to Help Reduce Harmful Gambling

HealthWest recently received a grant from the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation’s new local prevention program. With it they intend to reduce harmful gambling activities for at-risk communities. More details of the VRGF grants program can be found here.

The north and west metropolitan region is home to some of the most economically disadvantaged, ethnically diverse communities. Yet, it is also the area with the greatest gambling losses. Furthermore, studies have shown that recreational trips to casinos present a specific risk to vulnerable communities.

HealthWest aims to use the grant to target these communities; and are inviting CALD (cultural and linguistically diverse) community leaders to join an advisory group and combat these detrimental issues. HealthWest is also asking older, ethno-specific social groups who have attended gambling venues for recreational outing in the past or who continue to do so, to participate in a confidential survey. The survey will help determine the cost of these activities.

Net Electronic Gaming Machines Loss by players October 2014

Local Government Area         Loss by Players in the Community

City of Brimbank

$12,201,614.26

City Of Hume

$9,147,657.85

City of Whittlesea

$9,039,030.91

City of Wyndham

$8,078,821.56

City of Darebin

$7,244,063.22

City of Melbourne

$6,628,001.46

City of Moonee Valley

$6,502,673.15

City of Moreland

$5,485,373.59

City of Melton

$5,052,423.14

City of Banyule

$4,853,259.86

City of Maribyrnong

$4,484,917.86

City of Hobsons Bay

$4,180,295.34

 

Below are links to alternative recreational activities for social groups

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Community and Planned Activity Groups Guide

 

 Acknowledgements

Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing acknowledges and pays respect to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, on whose land this website was developed. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, their ancestors and elders, both past and present and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We hope our work contributes to the wider project of respect and recognition between cultures in Australia. Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing receives project funding from the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care to administer the Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care (PICAC) program in Victoria.

 

Did you know?

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37%
37% of people aged 65 years and over in Australia were born overseas.
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There are over 400 separately identified languages spoken in Australian homes.
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Australians follow more than 120 religious and spiritual beliefs.
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28% & 20%
28% percent of people using home care and 20% percent of people using permanent residential care are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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36%
36% of care attendants in residential aged care are identified as being from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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Australia’s Indigenous peoples are two distinct cultural groups made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. But there is great diversity within these two broadly described groups exemplified by the over 250 different language groups spread across the nation.