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CCPG provides a variety of activities throughout Connecticut. These include: trainings, conferences, workshops and community awareness events. These activities address a wide range of topics about problem gambling for audiences such as high school and college administrators, students, E.A.P.s, corporations, clinicians, families and other community organizations.

In addition to these activities, CCPG works closely with the media to increase awareness about the issue of problem gambling within Connecticut and nationally.

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Problem Gambling Services Upcoming Trainings
Problem Gambling Services (PGS) is a program of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. As one of the funders of the CT Council on Problem Gambling (CCPG), CCPG works collaboratively with PGS to increase education and awareness on the issue of problem Gambling. Currently PGS is offering training opportunities on the topic of problem gambling for professionals in the addictions community. Please click here for more information.
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National Problem Gambling Awareness Week 2009
March 1 - March 7, 2009

National Problem Gambling Awareness Week is recognized nationwide by the National Council on Problem gambling and its 35 state affiliates and by countless organizations and individuals working to prevent problem and pathological gambling.

Click here for a recap of the 2008 event...

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RECAP: CCPG Annual Conference
from Thursday, October 23, 2008

[click here for more information]

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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

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H.Ed.G.E. COLLABORATIVE
CCPG has recently established The Higher Education Gambling Effects (H.Ed.G.E.)  collaboration. This group which consists of membership from the CT Council, DMHAS/Problem Gambling Services, and the Regional Action Councils in CT is charged with planning and development of potential outreach to college communities (staff, faculty, and administration).

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