Have you or anyone you know been affected by gambling or the gambling experiences of a loved one?
The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)’s Scotland Reducing Gambling Harms programme want to hear from you. They are recruiting people with lived experience to help shape action to reduce gambling harms in Scotland by sharing their expertise and priorities.
Gambling-related harms are the adverse impacts from gambling on the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, communities, and society. This includes financial, employment, and relationship issues, physical and mental health problems, criminal activity, and in the most severe cases suicide as a direct result of gambling harm.
People can experience gambling harms to different degrees, and the Scotland Reducing Gambling Harm programme are interested in speaking to anyone who feels they have experienced harm as result of their own, or a loved one’s gambling.
Working with people with lived experience, the programme helps to identify key areas of importance in reducing gambling harms in Scotland. These key areas help shape the focus for the Scottish Implementation Group of the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms and put the voice of people affected by gambling harms at the heart of action to reduce those harms.
The programme also provides people with lived experience with new perspectives, advice and information on other matters related to gambling harm. For example, shaping awareness raising campaigns and helping inform the focus of future research on gambling harm.
For more information, please see the programme’s recruitment advert which outlines requirements and the benefits of being involved with the programme. It is particularly important to hear the views and experiences of a diverse range of people to inform policy change.
If you would like to be involved with the Scotland Reducing Gambling Harm programme, please express your interest via email at gamblingharm@alliance-scotland.org.uk or call 0141 404 0231 and ask for Hannah Gunn/ Georgina Charlton. You can also reach out on Twitter via DM @ScotRGH.
