CCPG OFFERS Mini-grants for Connecticut Colleges
The Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling (CCPG) is offering a mini-grant of up to $1,500 to colleges and universities across Connecticut.  The purpose of this grant is to facilitate the creation of a plan of problem gambling awareness and prevention activities during the 2009 calendar year, with emphasis on National Problem Gambling Awareness Week occurring annually in March.  This program gives Problem Gambling within higher education the attention it needs at a time when interest in, and access to gambling is unprecedented in our state, and across the country. 

It is anticipated that the mini-grant will augment existing program activities that are currently funded to address alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.  As addictions often co-occur, CCPG will provide grantees a variety of printed and audio-visual materials that address PG as both a unique disorder and one that co-occurs with substance abuse, depression, obsessive/compulsive disorders, stress related disorders, and more.

CCPG is committed to preventing gambling addiction among Connecticut's college and university students.  Since 2004, we have been working with the Connecticut state universities to pilot various facets of a program we now call H.Ed.G.E. Your Bets: Higher Education Gambling Effects(tm). 

Grantees are expected to implement the activities in the time and course of the standard academic program.  Details about the application, budget proposal, scope of work, reporting, and evaluation can be found in the enclosed Application Instructions. CCPG will provide technical and programmatic assistance as needed.  For questions regarding all aspects of the mini-grant program, please contact Michelle McBride, Prevention Educator, at (203) 453-0138, or michellem@ccpg.org .