Engaging the Community and Partners to Build Capacity to Prevent Problem Gambling
How can your community's strengths help prevent problem gambling?
Course Information
- Audience: • Public health professionals
• Community health workers
• Social workers
• Behavioral health professionals
• Prevention specialists
• Educators and school counselors
• Healthcare providers (e.g., nurses, primary care physicians)
• Nonprofit and community organization staff
• Policy makers
• Substance use prevention professionals
• Advocates for health equity and community well-being - Format: Self-Paced
- Price: Free
- Length: 2 Hours
- Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hour. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hour is 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: 08122020. If you are not seeking a CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the post-test and evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course.
- Competencies: Analytical / Assessment Skills,
Cultural Competency Skills,
Community Dimension of Practice Skills,
Public Health Sciences Skills - Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings: Foundational knowledge or skills such as:
• An understanding of problem gambling as a public health issue.
• Familiarity with concepts of equity and social determinants of health.
• Experience or interest in community engagement or public health initiatives. - Supplemental materials: Presentation Slides
- Pre-requisites: None
About this Course
This training explores the importance of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities, problem gambling concepts and terminology, variables associated with an increased or decreased risk of problem gambling, groups at risk for developing problem gambling, and connections with related health issues.
What you'll learn
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
Better understand how to apply a public health approach to problem gambling
Describe levels of gambling and their associated risk
Identify problem gambling risk and protective factors
Identify groups at disproportionate risk for developing problem gambling
Better understand the intersections between problem gambling and other behavioral health issues
Subject Matter Expert
Haner Hernandez, PhD
Training and Technical Assistance Associate
Emily Bhargava, MA
Training and Technical Assistance Associate
Dr. Hernández has worked for 31 years in the health and human service field developing, implementing, and evaluating culturally and linguistically competent youth and adult health prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery support programs. He also has many years of experience in delivering addiction counseling and clinical supervision to professionals in the field. As a professional trainer and facilitator, he provides individualized technical assistance and support to organizations that provide addiction prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery supports. Dr. Hernández is in long-term recovery from addiction himself and is committed to eliminating health disparities by working at the national, state, and local levels. Originally from Puerto Rico, Dr. Hernández is fluent in English and Spanish.
Emily has been providing technical assistance to support community-level prevention since 2005. Trained in medical anthropology, she brings a strong focus on cultural appropriateness and health equity as well as an interest in qualitative data to all of her work. She is also skilled in using collaborative art as a tool for health promotion. Emily served as a member of the statewide epidemiological work group that identified the emerging opioid epidemic in 2006, and has partnered with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on multiple initiatives, including a toolkit for the application of culturally and linguistic appropriateness services standards to public health initiatives, a statewide plan to mitigate the harms of expanded gambling in Massachusetts, and a comprehensive workforce development plan for substance abuse prevention practitioners. She is a certified prevention specialist.
Enrollment and Contact Hours
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Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of award 2 UB6HP31685‐05‐00 “Public Health Training Centers.” The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.