H.Ed.G.E. Your Bets™ G-ATOD Mini-Grant Offering
FEBRUARY - DECEMBER 2010

ABOUT H.ED.G.E.
Since its inception in 2006, CCPG's "H.Ed.G.E. Your Bets™: Higher Education Gambling Effects" program has offered mini-grants to colleges and universities in Connecticut. The program provides the essential information, tools, funds and more, to apply current Alcohol, Tobacco, & Other Drug (ATOD) prevention research, theory, and practice, to Problem Gambling (PG) programming. As these addictions often co-occur, CCPG has provided grantees a comprehensive program that includes a variety of printed and audio-visual materials that address problem gambling as both a unique disorder and one that co-occurs with ATOD and more. This identifies H.Ed.G.E. Your Bets™ as a G-ATOD program. It gives PG within higher education the attention it needs at a time in students' lives when boredom, peer pressure, and a strong desire to win money (risk factors), can overcome their protective factors, leading to poor decision-making.

Previous grantees have found that this program was easily integrated into awareness and prevention activities already in existence. They have conducted needs assessment research, educated students with awareness and prevention messages, and offered students more alternatives to risky activities.

For more information, please see:

• Grant Overview - includes descriptions and photos from previously successful programs and logic models.
  
  
• At a Glance - a downloadable PDF with an overview of the H.Ed.G.E. grant application.
  
  
• Application - fill out this online application to develop your custom prevention plan and apply for one of our mini grants.

For questions regarding all aspects of the mini-grant program, please contact Carlos Reinoso Jr., Community Prevention Educator, at (203) 453-0138, or carlosr@ccpg.org.