Prevention science focuses on the implementation of or the development of evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies to reduce risk factors and increase protection factors with an overall goal of improving the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, and the community overall. The prevention field and research has been growing over the past few decades and can and has been utilized to address many behavioral health issues such as problem gambling. This introductory training will explore the history of prevention science; define common terms and concepts from prevention science such as behavioral health, the continuum of care, and the public health and social-ecological models; risk and protective factors for problem gambling, and how to apply prevention science to prevent problem gambling and underage gambling.
July 2023. Registration information to come.
Trainers: Rebecca Bishop, MSW, Project Director, Massachusetts Center of Excellence for Problem Gambling Prevention and Ben Spooner, Assistant Project Director, Massachusetts Center of Excellence for Problem Gambling Prevention
Track and Competency Level: Intersection of Problem Gambling and Other Behavioral Health Issues, Introductory
